In my town years back, a tradesman was burned while working on a shop renovation. He was taken to hospital,…

In my town years back, a tradesman was burned while working on a shop renovation. He was taken to hospital, feeling OK, and asked when he would be allowed to go home. Doctors said he wasn’t going home. He was going to die from his burns. 1/2

I remember that story when thinking about ‘living with’ pandemics. How the social media-led obsessive focus only on present moment trends and therefore only acute Covid impact has blinded us to what’s been done. You can’t uninfect bodies. Only time reveals the damage. /end