Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Thanks folks. First game yesterday and Lou would have been there. She was actually 39, not 37, a bit overweight maybe but she was fit enough, no underlying health issues that we knew of, yet it killed her within a week. Just unreal.

My pal Keith is my age (58) and pretty fit, non-smoker, and was double-jabbed, yet he was laid flat out for 10 days. Spoke to him yesterday, he had just been to the local park for 30 minutes, his first time out. He’s exhausted and still coughing, but getting better. Being vaccinated is no guarantee that you won’t get sick of course, but I can’t help feeling that he’d have been in deep shit without the vaccine.

All this affects me in that my wife is in the final stages of her 4-year medical qualifications. She has her final case studies and tasks/assignments to be completed by December 31st, and if she contracts Covid then she’ll have to isolate and, worse, won’t be able to meet her patients and studies (they’re all classed as vulnerable, being adults with learning disabilities) and she won’t meet her target and she’ll fail her final year and won’t be able to sit the final exam, so she’ll have to repeat the final two years. I can’t risk that, so I have to refrain from busy pubs, football and gigs until 2022. It’ll be a massive pain in the arse (I have gig tickets already booked, and I’ve not been to my beloved Leyton Orient in 18 months) but I just can’t risk it.

This ain’t over, by a very long chalk indeed.