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The Global Pandemic Is Here To Stay
We need to start getting used to the “new normal”.
It’s December 2021 and I am on my third Covid diagnosis.
Compared to my last illness back in January, which rendered me comatose and completely unable to function, Omicron is quite mild and I have made a full recovery.
What no one tells you is that about getting Covid is that you suffer erectile dysfunction. As tempted as I am to share photographs of drips hanging out of various parts of my body, I will hold back.
What’s extraordinary here is that being vaccinated twice doesn’t necessarily insulate you from getting the Omicron strain of the virus.
And unlike the other strains, it seems to be spreading at a much faster rate than its predecessors, which is a major source of concern.
And given that more than a third of Londoners are yet to have been vaccinated, I am fully convinced that we are in serious trouble. far worse than anything that we witnessed at the end of 2020 going into 2021.
There are a number of hospitals in and around the area that I live in Colindale in North- West London.
Some of these hospitals are brilliantly run and a good number are actually in a serious state of disrepair.
The Royal Free hospital in Hampstead, which is a few stops away from my neighbourhood is perhaps one of the very best NHS hospitals in the entire British isles.
During the lockdown last year, it was a complete mayhem. Ambulances were queuing up for miles, with lots of patients in them, waiting to be admitted to be treated for this dreaded disease.
The NHS was truly bursting at the seams.
And I fear with the Omicron virus, it is deja vu all over again for all those, who have not been vaccinated.
And also for those who have been vaccinated too.
Even though London and the wider country are yet to go into a full lockdown, I suspect that it is only a matter of time before this happens.
With a serious incident declared by Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, it is clear that we are back in March 2020 territory, when our failure to act led to the spread of the virus and the deaths…
