Have I Got It?

Well here I am, very slight COVID19 symptoms. Two days of very slight fever, so slight it almost went unnoticed and a little cough, almost a tickly cough that is again only slight but a cough that has lasted 5 days nonetheless and came after two days of significant exhaustion – all enough for the NHS website to tell me to lock myself away.

It leaves me, together with the family taking the socially responsible route of self-isolation for 14 days from when my symptoms first started, but have I got it? A raging fever and uncontrollable cough would be as clear a sign that I’d need, but these piddly little symptoms leave me thinking is it really Coronavirus or something far less sinister?

It is something, that little something that has also triggered three bouts of migraine attacks in the last 10 days, and I only very occasionally get these. But, that then leaves you thinking is that due to the recent stress of moving house, a house that still has so much still for the builder to complete.

Boris has it, Hancock has it, Charles has it even our EU friend (cough) Michel Barnier has to now negotiate himself around it, all reporting symptoms as ‘slight’, but do I have it? Who knows? If we had test kits I would know and this IS the most annoying part. 

Am I locking my family away completely unnecessarily for the next 14 days, am I denying my teenage son two weeks of earning money now he’s just landed a paying job at his school helping look after key worker children and my wife who has a full time job in education where her school is open looking after vulnerable children of the area.

Personally I’m in no hurry to get back to work as all work has dried up for my business but if I am sitting in isolation wondering ‘Have I got it?’ how many other key and potentially useful individuals are across the country also sitting in isolation but not knowing if they have, or have had coronavirus pay them a visit. 

What a waste! I’d pay handsomely for test kits as I, like my family want to be out there helping. More annoying is the thought of the hundreds, if not thousands, of frontline staff who are in the same position as myself and my family, out of the game but not knowing if they really ‘have it’.

Let’s get these test kits sorted. Let’s get answers to the question on the lips of so many people. Let’s get releasing an army of key people wanting to help others. 

For me, I will do all I can, that is sit inside and wait it out and do everything I can not to infect others, if I have it. I also can present a little internet radio show from home on RedArmy Radio 9 to 10am and at least highlight my story, the COVID19 tell-tale signs and encourage others to play their part.

But, “Have I got it?”

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