It had hit some of us already.
On March 3rd 2020
I finished at my job of 3.5 years as a applicationsengineer making, aligning, fitting optics into UV gas spectrometers then calibrating them..
On March 4th 2020
Started in a sedentary vax lab job testing new vax delivery stamps.
Why?
In Jan 2020 I got Covid-19
At work
From colleague in Lab who visitted sick MiL over NY 2019/20 in China and was allowed back to work without quarantining as hadn't stayed in Wuhan.
Every one in workplace was off for two weeks then in walking wounded:
I was
on C-PAP 24/7
headache
no taste/smell
Cough
Fever
When I returned to work in Feb I couldn't cope with physicality of
the job:
Chest pain, stabbing central chest pain when moved carried stuff.
POTS PEM
( It was
#LongCovid: myocarditis and exertional angina on top of the POTs & PEM)
I resigned as no more sick leave and not supportive boss.
So worked notice and started a new less physical job in beginning of March.
Even that was too much 3 weeks later as country locked down I couldn't be furloughed as had changed jobs so was put on sick leave SSP and then JSA for 6 months then nothing for 8 months
Eventually once diagnosed with
#LongCovid in July 2021 at a long covid clinic in Oxford I started long process of getting ESA & PIP finally getting it in Jan 2022.
It took till July 2022 to get meds for POTS & myocarditis after private cardiologist in Harley Street did PET CT & contrast MRI showing long covid đź’”damage and ongoing myocarditis
Till Nov 2024 to get angina meds for cardiac microvascular dysfunction leading to the exertional angina relieving most of daily stabbing chest pain when I walked...
All time gaslighted it was my lungs or anxiety or chest wall pain or poor breathing habits...
So here I am 6 years later disabled lofe and career and health wrecked
Covid has definately not been a fun holiday or joke and never was 250,000K people died of it in UK so far 50-150 still dying of covid every week of 2025/6
Still isn't
It's a disabling disease 4M in UK have by now ( 3.1M by Mar 2024) and you have a 1 in 10 or more chance of getting it with each reinfection
So FFP2 mask up indoors away from home especially in hospitals
Till we get a long covid cure and clean indoor air like HoC, MOD, DoEd, Davos!