This, though, is the weird thing (and this thread may go a bit & be uncharacteristically unranty). The really unpleasant thing I had in January/February, which some of you may recall kept me from drawing for two weeks, looks increasingly like it was Covid-19. From a wealth of...
...anecdotal evidence here and elsewhere, not least from health professionals who've tested positive, all my symptoms match: shivers, agues, total body ache, utter fatigue, eye ache, migraines (I *never* get migraines), and except for not having a bad cough, an obvious loss of...
...lung capacity which is only just now returning after I've been strong enough to resume doing any exercise - oh, plus two weeks of fever and sleeping about 20 hours a day. Illest I've been for 50 years. But of course there's now no way of testing me to see if I did have it...
...though 3 weeks ago herself had something so like it it might as well have been it, but finally seeing a doctor after 3 days of skipping through the NHS 111 cattlegrid, she failed to tick the relevant boxes so they didn't test her. None of which really signifies much, except...
...that I now read that in the Italian town of Vo, where they've done 100% testing & eliminated the virus, 70% of *positive* cases were asymptomatic. So the boxes that the UK needed to be ticked never would have been. So, apart from us two having no idea whether or not we're...
...still at risk (though we're stopping indoors to be on the safe side), other questions are begged: if I started showing commonly held symptoms on 15th January, how long has this been in the UK population? All I'd done was walk through London, like people from everywhere. But...
...iof we don't know because we've not been tested, neither does the government nor the medical establishment, and so are dependent on mathematical modelling (you know, of the type that created all those financial instruments that led to the 2008 crash but signally failed to...
...prophesy). This is where is becomes truly terrifying - not epidemiologically, but politically - as assumptions are motivated by things quite apart from evidence - like the overriding imperative to keep people away from hospitals to stop them immediately collpasing after 10...
...years of deliberate Tory spite, in case we all wake up anmd see precisely what the Conservatives have done to our nation and its citizens. Meanwhile, we do the exact opposite of the Americans in Iraq, for the same reason: they refused to count the dead; we only count the...
...dead and potentially dying, for fear of what else we might actually find out. Jesus fucking Christ! In the meantime, you all keep safe and good luck. Mxxx
