{"id":48368,"date":"2020-03-16T07:56:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T07:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=48368"},"modified":"2020-03-16T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T07:56:55","slug":"this-is-personal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/03\/16\/this-is-personal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is personal…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this yesterday, sending it to people I met during the week:<\/p>\n

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I apologise for having to write in this way I think it only fair to advise you that I think I might have coronavirus. I have met you in the last few days and that means I could have infected you.<\/div>\n
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I first thought I might be getting a cold on Friday. Yesterday it felt a bit flu like, and I thought some cold symptoms were developing. Today those symptoms seem to have disappeared, but the flu like symptoms remain. I feel decidedly under the weather.<\/div>\n
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Of course, this may be ordinary flu. In particular, I am not coughing. That, I think, suggests his may be a standard virus. Without testing, which is not available due to government policy, I do not know.\u00a0 But I am self isolating now and in practice have been (almost by accident) since Friday. To be honest, I\u2019m not moving far from bed.<\/div>\n
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I stress, I cannot say I have got coronavirus. I am working on the assumption that might be the case, and I thought you should know.<\/div>\n
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I hope you don\u2019t get this.<\/div>\n
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On the other hand, if you do, I also hope that it is no worse than what I have. I would much rather not feel as I do, but I do not feel threatened by it. It\u2019s just like a pretty bad cold right now, but without the nose and throat bits.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, I am self isolating.<\/p>\n

And this morning it\u2019s much the same. And still no sign of a cold.<\/p>\n

So do I have coronavirus? Let me be honest, and say I do not know.<\/p>\n

All I know is I have a flu type illness that is not going the way these things always usually do with me.<\/p>\n

But that, I suggest, does indicate the failure of government policy. After all, it would be really useful to know if I have got coronavirus. I would definitely know what was required now, instead of guessing. And they\u2019d know too. And so would those with whom I have had contact. And I\u2019d also know that if there is such a thing as immunity that I might have it.<\/p>\n

But right now, I don\u2019t know, the people I know don\u2019t know and the government doesn\u2019t know, so they have no idea whether or not the stats they issue are in any way useful, or not.<\/p>\n

Moan over. I might go back to bed....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this yesterday, sending it to people I met during the week: I apologise for having to write in this way I think it
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