I shouldn't be flippant, I had it way back right at the start. Not all the symptoms were in the press back then. All I knew was I felt rough. Luckily we just went into the point when the guidance was to work from home if you can, so I worked from home not knowing if I had it or not. Bright lights hurt, lots of headache going on, joints aching, throwing cups of tea down the sink because they didn't taste right. These symptoms weren't in the press at the time so I really didn't know. The big thing in the press was having a dry, continuous cough - which I didn't have. That came on for two days right at the end of two weeks of various symptoms that all made me feel crap. Looking back I was a lucky one to only have those relatively mild symptoms, though they didn't feel mild at the time. As I began to feel alright I thought a bit of fresh air might do me good and headed out on my bike. That was a ride that will stay with me forever - my lungs didn't seem to work. I mean I was breathing in air but my body didn't seem to be turning that into oxygenated blood. After cycling a bit more over the next few weeks my lungs worked again - like I said, I was a lucky one. I still didn't know if I actually had covid because the symptoms were so strung out. Then my Daughter and a stray returned from University (The October maybe?) as the Uni's closed along with the schools. The Stray brought a dose of covid along for the ride so we isolated for a couple of weeks. Strangely I didn't seem to catch covid from the stray even though we were in the same house. Then I was randomly asked to take part in a NHS study to test for covid antibodies and there it was - I had them...
Then the vaccines came along and we all had the opportunity to give ourselves a base layer of protection.
But yeah, I shouldn't be flippant because it's a horrible illness and I consider myself lucky to have got off so lightly