'I've lost a friend to coronavirus. This disease isn't the game it seemed two weeks ago' | writes GylesB1
This thing is beginning to hit home. I now know someone who has died of the virus – and she was 10 years younger than me. Five weeks ago, meanwhile, I went to a friend’s retirement party ahead of his setting off for Thailand for a long-awaited ‘holiday of a lifetime’. He is now in an intensive care unit in Hua Hin with double pneumonia and Covid-19. Not to mention that the Prince of Wales has had it, and we are exact contemporaries, both born in 1948.
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