3 September

This is how Covid wins. By us no longer doing any meaningful testing, people can be out there completely symptom-free, infecting thousands of other people. I’ve highlighted in yellow the key part - a ‘mild’ illness doesn’t mean the infection is mild. It means the virus has inactivated your immune response, to make it easier to infect you. The sickness you feel with infectious disease isn’t the virus, it’s your immune response. The fact Covid is ‘mild’ for many is a red-light danger signal, those with mild or no symptoms are often the sickest people of all, the virus has a wide-open front door to their bodies. Somebody who gets very sick with Covid is likely healthier, their body is mounting a strong immune response. It’s fighting the virus. Often they’re vaccinated.