This coming week will mark exactly two months since the World Health Organization officially declared the coronavirus a pandemic, officially gave it the technical code COVID-19, and causing just about all of our best-laid plans for 2020 to get derailed in the process. As we speak to you this weekend, there are almost four million cases of the virus being confirmed, 273,000 people have died, and the United States has over 1.3 million cases & the lives of nearly 80,000 have been claimed by it. And this doesn't bring into account the economic and social ramifications caused by this emergency.
The ones who are most affected by COVID has been, obviously, those who have suffered from it, those have had health scares due to it, and those who are family or friends who are going through this agonizing situation right now as they try to recover. Chances are, those of you reading this have someone you know who are living through this, as those who are affected by the coronavirus have taken every conceivable precaution to distance themselves as they try to recover. And there is one person in the community of MTV Reality who has been through this tumultuous experience.
"Come One, Come All" saw everything viewers have come to expect from AYTO, from the jaw-dropping hookups - including five girls getting it on inside the signature Boom Boom Room, to the always juicy relationships among everyone in the house as they looked for their perfect match and align everyone together to win money. They eventually did win that money in eventually figuring out the magic code late in the season, but the real winner of the summer was love and acceptance... and AYTO8 also brought viewers countless stories of the sixteen singles as they shared their struggles to be truly accepted for who they really are, continuing MTV's strong LGBT legacy.
For a girl who calls herself "Kariselle" as in carousel with a "K" in front, Kari was also an aspiring singer before she came to Hawaii, as she still is now. But well after the afterglow of AYTO 8 had faded out (one where she had a public social beef with her perfect match, Max Gentile), she would find herself fighting the same battle millions around the world are battling: the virus. Last week, Kari disclosed publicly for the first time on social media that she had tested positive for COVID back in March, well before cities, communities & countries began implementing social distancing regulations and public gatherings were closed off to contain the spread. In where she calls home, the New York metropolitan area is far & away the metropolis most affected by the pandemic.
Kari tweeted earlier this week @KariselleSnow, "Here's something to think about: I kept it private when I found out I had COVID-19 & during that time there were people asking me to come hangout. Do you now see that you could literally be asking to see someone who has the coronavirus and not even know? As someone in their early 20s in good health who tested positive for COVID-19, we are not invincible to this virus. If I knew what I know now, I would’ve taken this WAY MORE seriously. Nothing is worth even the tiniest risk. Please learn from my mistakes I swear it’s not worth it."
Someone who was among the first to know about Kari beating COVID was Joey Sasso, winner of Season 1 of Netflix's The Circle... and he tweeted, "Guys, just got off a FT call and learned that my good friend @KariselleSnow had and beat COVID-19!!!! She feels amazing and healthy! Go show her some love for making it through this dark period. Love you and so happy you are okay ❤️." And her fellow AYTO castmate Nour Fraij wrote to her, "I love you baby gurl! Keep your head up and stay strong. You beat Covid!!!! I’m so happy you’re doing better 💗."
In two additional social posts below on Instagram and YouTube, Kari discusses more in both photo and video form, and more in-depth in her video post, of what she has had to endure, from her having to quarantine when a friend of hers in their house had contracted the virus despite her being healthy and at a young age, to how this entire process of recovering from it has affected her mental state, one which she calls the day of her initial prognosis "one of the scariest days of my life." We are all hoping for a speedy and safe recovery for Kari as this crisis goes into its third month.
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