“They think it’s all over – IT IS NOW!” So says everyone now that early evidence suggests Omicron is little worse than a sneezing fit. Only experts are hesitant in joining in with the national mood of celebration, but then if you are an avid reader of the gutter press, experts are the last people you’d go to for advice. Got an unusual mole growing on your face? Ask someone at the pub. Is this chest pain anything serious? Someone on Facebook will know. Is Covid-19 near the end of its fatal ride around the world? Not if you don’t think it ever existed in the first place. Whatever you might think, the public mood is one of optimism. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Having acquired a cold the morning after a trip to my local last night, in the same way my son went to the darts in London last week and acquired a cold, I naturally feared the worst. Having not had a cold worthy of the name since 2019 – and I am not sure if this will turn out to be a cold worthy of the name – it feels strangely comforting to feel a bit rubbish this morning. So, I took a lateral flow test JUST IN CASE and, as usual, it’s a negative result. Maybe this is the future of Covid? An irritating cold. I hope so.
Even a grim pessimist (AKA realist) like me, harbours hope that Omicron steers a path to getting back to life as we know it. I don’t know about you but I never went sick from work unless I was feeling like I was at death’s door. That would include a new and persistent cough and many of the symptoms you get with Covid. In fact, particularly in the third sector where I ended up working you were expected to turn up for work regardless of how ill you were. If you were to kill your service users then that would be very unfortunate, particularly for them.
I set up this run of blogs about Omicron just in case it was as grim as the original Covid, which I wished I had written about first time round. To a failed blogger like me, that might have provided a document in real time of how the arrival of the virus felt. I really hope I have been wasting my time, as my blog reading statistics tend to indicate.
Could it finally be that Boris Johnson has made the right judgement in not shutting stuff down, even if the only reason he didn’t take firmer action was because his backbench headbangers would never have stood for it? Honest answer? Could be. Alternative honest answer? Don’t know.
Now excuse me why I blow my nose repeatedly for the first time in years. I can’t say I’ve missed it.
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