Legendary Uncle Luke says everything was all good until he gave in to peer pressure and went to a friend’s birthday party at a local strip club.
Apparently, that’s when he caught the virus. Before the celebration, Uncle Luke says during the pandemic, he was sticking to the strict guidelines recommended by the CDC, including wearing his mask whenever he went outside.
But when his friend wouldn’t stop calling his phone and begging him to come to his party, he finally gave in, Miami New Times reported.
“I told myself I would go in for 15 minutes and duck out. As soon as I walked through the doors, it was like stepping into a coronavirus-spreading chamber,” he recalled.
“Everybody was wildin’ out and getting drunk. Almost no one was wearing masks. My buddies were all up in my face. Patrons and strippers were walking up to me and asking to take selfies. Of course, I obliged when they asked me to take my mask off. Even though I felt like everyone in the club was an asymptomatic carrier, I stayed late.”
It was only a few days after that he started showing COVID-19 symptoms. “I started having a dry cough. I chalked it up to seasonal allergies,” he said.
But eventually, Uncle Luke lost his appetite, and as much as he told himself it was a stomach virus, he decided to get tested.
“I was first told the result was positive, then informed it was a false positive when they called me a few hours later.” But then things got worse for him, and his temperature shot to 102 degrees.
The Florida rapper checked into a hospital and took another PCR test that came back positive. He was sent home because he didn’t experience difficulty in breathing. He was told to quarantine for two weeks.
“I locked myself in a room of my house. Thankfully, I didn’t infect anyone — including my son Blake, who knocked on the door every day to make sure I was OK. My personal assistant, Nikki, and my buddy Teach had food and water delivered to me while I rode out the ‘rona.'”
“The fevers would come in waves, especially at night. I’d wake up around two, three in the morning in a pool of sweat. I changed shirts three times a night because my body got so hot. Dying didn’t cross my mind, but I was worried about my temperature spiking to the point that I would go into shock or I would have a stroke.”
Fortunately, Uncle Luke recovered and is feeling better. He pointed to the widespread belief among COVID-19 deniers that believe the virus doesn’t pose extreme health complications if they are under the age of 65 and therefore choose to go about life as if it doesn’t matter if they catch it because they won’t get gravely sick.
“But who wants to lie in bed, isolated from your loved ones, dealing with body aches and a spiking fever? It’s miserable.”
“The biggest problem we’re facing is peer pressure. Any time you walk into a bar or restaurant where virtually no one is wearing a mask or properly social-distancing, and you are the only one wearing a face covering, you are shamed for doing your part. The people who don’t take it seriously make you feel like you’re not tough enough.”
Although he doesn’t advocate shutting down local governments, he does feel like everyone, including “millennials and Gen Z’er,” should do their part of protecting everyone.
“You don’t want to take it home and infect your parents and your grandparents. You don’t want to be responsible for killing them.”
“So if you go out, put your mask on when you are not drinking or eating. You don’t have to be all up on each other, either. You can still hang out at a six-foot distance from each other. And if the establishment has too many people not following the protocols, don’t be afraid to go home and call it a night.”
