Jayne Johns had just dropped off clean clothes for her husband Craig, who is now in a coma in intensive care fighting coronavirus, when she turned on her phone and saw stories about people who think the whole pandemic is made up.
Sat in her car at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend on Saturday, January 3, she decided she had to do something to tell people the reality, rather than the fantasy being spouted by some on social media and at protests.
"I was just sat in the car being reflective. My mum was in palliative care at the Princess of Wales a couple of years ago and she passed away," said Jayne.
"I was sitting there thinking 'Craig's in there and I can't go and see him'. I was flicking through my phone and there were protesters outside a hospital saying ' coronavirus doesn't exist' or 'don't wear a mask' and I just thought I'd do a video to get it off my mind."
Jayne said the couple had both tested positive for the virus even though they had been "very careful" and Craig, 64, who has mild Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [COPD] but is otherwise "very fit and active", had only been leaving the house to go to the shops.
She only suffered mild symptoms including fatigue and a loss of taste and smell, but Craig fared worse and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit [ICU] soon after Jayne filmed the video, after being taken to A&E on boxing day.
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She said she was "in awe" of the staff who were looking after Craig, who she has not had any contact with since he was admitted to ICU on Monday, January 4.
"He was moved from A&E to the high dependency ward and then to ICU. He was sending texts at first but they started tailing off and he asked me to let the family know 'I don't have the energy to answer texts can you tell everybody'.
"The phone rang on Monday and it was the nurse on the ward who said 'Craig's struggling, we're going to take him down to ICU but he wants to speak to you first'.
"I asked them whether they would be putting him in a coma and they said 'very probably'.
"On the Facetime the screen froze and I was desperately trying to get the picture back in the car park at work.
"Thankfully, the nurse called me back on the phone and Craig said 'they keep putting all these masks on me, I can't bear it now'. He was struggling to breathe but I said 'you fight, you have a little sleep and you come back to me and that was it, he was gone."
Jayne, from Kenfig Hill, said she was not one for speaking out and thought everyone was entitled to their opinion, but decided to upload the video she had recorded in the car park to Facebook after talking with her family.
"I was told 'you'll have people coming at you' but I said 'I can't care about that, if one person listens and realises that Covid is very real then it's worth it'.
Jayne introduces the video as "a little message for anybody who doesn't believe that Covid exists or how bad it is."
She continues: "Craig's doing OK, and he's going to be OK and he's going to come home but for now he's not feeling very well at all, so please don't listen to all the hype just keep yourself safe, keep your loved ones safe.
"Look after yourself, stay safe, keep your kids home, keep yourself in.
"Don’t go out and do what you can and soon enough, as we start 2021, hopefully with the vaccine and people taking better care, it won’t be long before we can all hug each other and go out and do all the things that we're missing doing but let’s miss those things for now, instead of missing people forever.
"Take care".
The "vast majority" of comments Jayne has seen on Facebook since uploading the video had been supportive, she said, but she spotted one comment accusing her of being an actor and suggesting the video was fake.
"It’s not me venting my spleen, I'm just asking people to think about what they really believe. It’s not a conspiracy just stay a bit safer.
"It's horrible. I was lucky, but there are lots of Craigs out there."
The couple moved to Wales in October, 2020, to fulfil their long term plan of living in the country they "both love". Jayne's family are Welsh and she said she was "very proud of that", adding that Craig "fell in love" with Wales and wanted to retire here.
She hopes to have her "amazing husband" home soon and thanks her family and neighbours for their support.
Jayne is keeping a journal for Craig to read "messages of support and love" when he comes home.
"It will feel to him like he just went to sleep, I just want to put little notes down for him to read when he wakes up," she added.
