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How did the virus get past my Obsessive Compulsive Corona Disorder?

18 April 2020

9:00 AM

18 April 2020

9:00 AM

When two members of my family went down with what appears to be Covid-19, I felt concerned. What I hadn’t bargained on was the sense of wounded pride. As the patients, pale as veal, collapse into their beds for 16 hours of fretful, jagged sleep, I ask myself how the wretched virus could have penetrated my defences.

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