We are still well. This morning I could hear my wife coughing, and it occurred to me that she could have the virus (I'd always assumed that I would get it first, as I have asthma, and am susceptible to the flu generally). She was fine, and just needed a drink of water.
This is one of the problems I'm finding with the virus: every time you have a cough, or feel unaccountably tired, you wonder 'am I sick?'. Oddly, it seems worse when I am in the house all day. Towards the end of the day, my throat feels dry (could it be the exposure to all the cleaning chemicals we use?), and I'm sometimes fatigued. Usually, this dissipates once I'm outside exercising.
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On a video call with work seven work colleagues, it emerged that two of them had isolated with symptoms that could have been the virus. They were o.k. now.
A third colleague indicated that his wife had had the virus. She had a fever and cough, the hallmarks of the infection in the evening. She'd ask my colleague to make sure that he loaded the bread maker the night before to make a loaf for the morning. In the morning, she complained to him that he'd forgotten to make the bread, as she could not smell it. However, he had not forgotten, and the whole house smelled of freshly baked bread.
Obviously, seven is a small sample, but it does suggest that the virus is widespread. They are only able to test hospitalised patients at the moment, and front-line medical staff (and not even many of these), so the official numbers are vast underestimates of the true spread. To their credit, the authorities have acknowledged this.
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I've developed a habit of tuning into the daily coronavirus briefings by the government, if I'm available. Today there was a jump in deaths - 538 new fatalities.
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In the evening I felt myself coughing a bit. I felt well, and went out for my daily run. This usually reveals if anything is truly wrong. Admittedly, I did feel tired at the start of the run, but after a handful of miles, as usual, I felt fine.
It hasn't rained for almost two weeks, so the ground is finally drying out, and the trails are good for running. A side benefit of our smaller world is that there's the chance to pay more attention to one's local surroundings. This evening, for example, I noticed that the trees along my path had an orange lichen (which I know know is called alga Trentopohlia).
