It's the message it sends and the situation it creates: kids/whoever jumping on trams, running from carriage to carriage; sitting, standing wherever they want paints a picture in people's minds of societal breakdown at a time when we need the absolute opposite. people will, naturally, and quite rightly think that If we can't get a simple thing like cooperation on public transport right, what hope is there for the bigger picture? It's absolutely a priority.
Agreed. These things NEVER happened prior to March 2020.
Genuinely wondered when "Grand Princess" became an American state. Too much wine/news. Need some feather.Cant imagine not saying goodbye to my mam hugging and kissing her..
TRAGIC FAREWELL
Six kids forced to say goodbye to their mom using a walkie-talkie as she died from coronavirus
A MOM-of-six who beat breast cancer but died of coronavirus was reportedly forced to say her goodbyes to her children using a walkie-talkie.
Sundee Rutter, 42, died of of COVID-19 on March 16, and her final words were spoken to her kids using a receiver propped against her pillow, BuzzFeed News reported.
All six of single mom Sundee's children, as well as her sister and mother, said goodbye via the device from outside of the hospital room, according to the report.
Speaking to BuzzFeed, Elijah Ross-Rutter, Sundee's fourth-oldest child, said: "I told her I love her... She shouldn’t worry about the kids.”
Sundee initially complained of feeling unwell on March 3, after previously recovering from breast cancer surgery.
According to Sundee's best friend, Jessica Harris, "doctor's told her she didn't have it and she went and self-quarantined herself at home for four days."
However, the mom – who previously lost her husband in 2012 and leaves her six children, ages 13 to 24, orphaned – started having difficulty breathing and was admitted to a Providence Regional Medical Center in Washington on March 7.
After one week of fighting the virus, she passed away.
Speaking of his family's time in the hospital, Elijah Ross-Rutter, 20, said he was, at first, allowed to see his mother with a face mask on, but as time went by, the mom-of-six was completely isolated.
Elijah said: “She thought she had the flu, probably.
“But like, the coronavirus? It was kind of hard for us to understand how she could get it because not that many people had it around here.”
Providence Regional Medical Center treated the first known case of COVID-19 in the U.S, and when
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Sundee's six children, ages 13 to 24, previously lost their father in 2012Credit: GoFundMe
Sundee was admitted, there were 27 reported cases and nine deaths in the state.
As of Monday, more than 4,300 cases had been reported in Washington State, as well as 195 deaths.
After Sundee returned to the hospital, her son was confined to the visitors waiting area while she was examined, according to reports.
Elijah and the family were then reportedly told that doctors were keeping their mother in overnight to be treated for pneumonia.
The next day, Ross-Rutter said, his mother tested positive for COVID-19.
He added that his mother would previously send texts, but, over time, those messages were just emoji-only responses.
On March 16, doctors called to tell the family that Sundee, described as a "supermom,"
Speaking of the restrictions in seeing his mother in her final days and hours, Elijah said, "Like, I’m about to lose my best friend and she can’t even hear me."
Since Rutter passed, a fundraising campaign in her name has raised more than $275,000.
Sundee's oldest child, 24-year-old Tyree Rutter, said he plans to use the money to secure housing for he and his younger siblings.
