According to government rules, I’m free. The government says you must isolate for 10 days following a positive test, which is really 11 days because day one is called Day Zero, and then you are allowed to go about your business as normal. I’ve done my time and, you will doubtless be thrilled to know, I’ve just been shopping at Sainsburys. After yet another positive test!
Presumably, the Covid I still have is different from the Covid I had at the start, the one I caught from someone else and then stayed at home to avoid giving to someone else. A kind of dormant, ineffectual and useless virus, the Nadine Dorries of Covid-19.
Today – FREEDOM DAY!!! – feels like every other day of this virus. My actual symptoms disappeared within a few days. All that’s left is the tiredness and that’s a consequence, not a symptom. And that’s still the case. I went to bed early feeling tired, slept fitfully, and got up 10 hours later, feeling tired.
The final daily test is less positive than yesterday’s and I’ll take another one next week some time, if I can be bothered.
If I was still at work, I’d have some decisions to make. I certainly wouldn’t be up to doing my old DWP fraud investigator’s job that I left in 2014 and probably not my support worker jobs with the two dysfunctional charities I worked for after. I’m just too knackered. But if this is as bad as it gets – and I think it’s likely to be – I can live with it.
I hope this has been some help for those of you who have somehow avoided the virus so far. As I keep saying, I would not have liked to face this virus without a vaccine. Even with three jabs, I still caught it.
