And you can forget any non-urgent procedures.
Plus you don't need to go to hospital to be in trouble. My healthy early twenties niece living in London caught it about 6 weeks ago. She was sent home to recover but is still suffering a number of debilitating side effects.
Here in the low countries a study came out recently, and there were media reports also saying that even many people, many of them young and previously healthy, who had a "mild" case of Covid-19 and did not need to be admitted to hospital, are still suffering the effects months later, including tiredness, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and a host of other physical complaints - and many of them are still not able to resume their normal activities. It is likely that not all of them will ever fully recover. And some people have continued to be mildly positive for the virus and thus have to remain in quarantine far longer than the two weeks generally mentioned.
For people who have been hospitalized, let alone those who have been in ICU and have survived, one can I think assume that many of them will not fully recover and that they are generally looking at a very long and hard rehabilitation.
This is a dangerous and insidious virus that we do not know a lot about yet, including the long-term or lasting effects, and what we know so far definitely is not comforting. So everyone, including the young and healthy, be careful. It is understandable that many of us want to and do go out, but when you do so, please always do your very best to follow the rules and to keep yourself safe. Practice social distancing, wear your mask, try to avoid crowds and when you do have social contacts keep it safe. Please do not participate in any of the irresponsible behavior we have been seeing lately such as social drinking and large scale partying, protests and so on.
Doing all that is also important so that we can all hopefully keep and enjoy our regained freedoms as long as possible and hopefully keep the second Covid wave away for as long as possible, and hopefully also limit its severity. The more people break the rules the sooner unfortunately we can all expect to be cooped up in lock-down again, perhaps an even stricter lock-down next time.
As for me personally: not much has changed. I have done a few more zoo visits. One turned out pretty bed in terms of Covid safety, but today's visit was quite good in that respect. With regards to work I am still working from home and not currently required to return to the office until the end of August, although I now can two days a week on reservation. I will normally be going back to my office on July 10th, exactly four months after I was at my office last. I never expected it to take that long to be honest.
