COVID-19: DJ secretly condemns ‘wrath of plague’ as he tells how he ‘died in 5 minutes’ in weeks-long coronavirus coma | News about Ant-Man & Art

A British DJ who was in a coma for weeks after contracting coronavirus in Ibiza has recounted how he “died in 5 minutes” during his ordeal – and said he received death threats for speaking out against to others in the industry who have continued to perform during the pandemic.

Known as The Secret DJ, the 51-year-old hasn’t been live since November 2019 and has warned of the dangers of COVID-19 and the “plague plague” long before he signed himself to the Delta variant in early July of this year.

However, he claims some industry insiders have traveled abroad during the pandemic to perform in countries with fewer restrictions than their own. “You killed people and you don’t even want to know about it,” he said, of anyone who did.

Warning: This article contains pictures of injuries

After falling ill and being flown by helicopter to Majorca for treatment, the unidentified DJ, who has written anonymous books on the industry, told Sky News he was left “like a corpse”, the agency said. His body was ravaged by the virus. , and then he discovered his heart had stopped while he was in a coma.

Doctors say the vaccination most likely saved his life. The virus left him with lung damage, while his weeks in hospital left him with severe muscle atrophy, but by September he was back home in Ibiza and recuperating.

However, the story doesn’t stop there. During one ride in early November, when he started working out to regain his strength, he put his foot down and stopped – and his leg, weakened from his hospital stay, “broken”.

After undergoing surgery, DJ was told it could take several months before he could walk again. Unable to work, he set up a GoFundMe account to help pay his medical bills. Despite his discomfort, he describes his leg injury as “a birthday present” compared to the “six weeks of hell” with COVID-19, and wants to warn others that the The network is still under threat.

“You learn a lot of the difference between discomfort and pain [when you are seriously ill with COVID]”, he told Sky News. Constant and intense discomfort is the way you torture people.

“The pain peaked and bottomed, it disappeared, but [this was] Constant discomfort, intense, like every time you breathe – what is it, 20,000 times a day? It’s like drowning 20,000 times a day. “

‘You’re dead’: Waking up in a hospital on another island

When he fell ill – he thought he had contracted the virus while going to watch England play Italy in the Euro 2020 final – he recognized the symptoms; The DJ believes he previously had COVID in early 2020, but was unable to test it at the time. This time, and after the first vaccination, he decided to stay at home and isolate.

On day 10, he said he had passed out, injured his head when he was back in his kitchen. Fortunately, he arrived long enough to call emergency services.

DJ wakes up in a hospital in Majorca, not realizing he’s been there for weeks. While he speaks a little Spanish, he says the language barrier meant he wasn’t fully aware of what he was going through at first.

“When I was healthy, one day I woke up [out of bed] “He says.” A doctor came in and said, “What are you doing, man? You’ve got double pneumonia. I put my hand in your chest cavity two weeks ago. You’re dead’.”

He said he was told his heart had stopped beating for 5 minutes.

By the time he was well enough to be discharged from the hospital and fly home, his appearance had changed dramatically. “I did [like] a dead body. I’m half my size, I’m practically translucent. “

He found himself in a wheelchair through Ibiza airport, surrounded by “my people, the kids I dance to” as they arrived on the day off.

Consequences of weeks in hospital

Determined to get back to normal, his recovery at home was going well – until the bicycle accident occurred. His leg was broken in three places, his foot dangling.

Now, he is starting to recover again. “[The doctor] He said I would walk again one day, “He said it could take six months, it could take a year, but he said you could come back from there. And I knew I could. come back from it because I came back after something worse than this.”

It’s one of many complications of being seriously ill with COVID-19, he said, of being in bed for too long without being able to move.

So he wanted his story to be a cautionary tale.

“It’s really simple, you know, just imagine maybe you die. Imagine maybe you’re lying in an iron lung. Imagine maybe your mother dies.

“When I was in intensive care in Majorca, there were kids there, perfectly healthy kids, kids. There were people in their 80s. It didn’t discriminate.

“The doctor said to me, ‘you’re going to die if you don’t get the vaccine.’ People say, ‘you got the shot, but you got COVID anyway’, like it’s an excuse not to get the shot. No, I got the stab and I didn’t die because I got hit by it.”

‘COVID is going nowhere’: A warning to others

Secret DJ hasn’t performed since 2019, no paid DJ job for two years. He describes himself as “a mid-range DJ” who plays internationally and has been a resident of some of Ibiza’s biggest clubs.

Before The Secret DJ started, he performed under his own name, but started performing under the covers – behind the screen – shortly before COVID-19 hit.

During the pandemic, he has taken to social media and wrote for industry publications urging others not to travel to countries with fewer restrictions to implement as shutdowns are implemented. currently in the UK or Spain and elsewhere.

Now that many lockdowns have been lifted, he believes people still need to consider mass events carefully.

“I spent all my COVID time telling people not to DJ,” he said. “We call them plague outbreaks – no plague spread, no COVID spread. Because some DJs are individual mega-hits, they literally flew. around the world during COVID, wherever they can play.

“My DJs, my people, who have traveled the world – you have killed people.”

He said he received death threats for speaking out.

“When you take down a fan of someone very popular, it’s basically bad. You can get hundreds of death threats a day if you take down the right person.

“It’s not my place to tell anyone what to do, but you have to know that there are consequences. COVID is still there. If you go out, someone could get sick. Are you okay?

“It’s your decision – but it’s not going anywhere, and it kills people.”