Is Covid-19 affected by one’s lifestyle?

WHEN, at the age of 80 and a quarter, I went gratefully for my Oxford Covid-19 vaccination, I caused a bit of a stir when asked about the medication I take.

I answerd “none”, although I did admit to taking multi-vitamins with extra Vitamine D3.

I also confessed to being overweight and having taken too little exercise for too long, leaving me with too little power in my legs to workout now. Otherwise, I am very well, if very unfit.

I mention this because, when there is time to review the history of this pandemic, someone ought to try to relate its widely differing outcomes with mortality, suffering, the extent of post-Covid illnesses, state of mind and the ability to return to productive work.

Smaller nations seem to have suffered less while trying to keep their economies going, while larger nations seem to have more obsolescent businesses harmful to health, like Trump’s ‘Rust-Belt’, while smaller nations are better prepared for the post-Covid, carbon-free industries, like the Netherlands’ offshore generators generating direct current, to electrolyse water producing hydrogen and oxygen, to power buses, trains, ships and planes, and replace oxygen displaced by an excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as well as keeping Covid sufferers alive in hospitals where CO2 levels are higher than they ought to be.

Perhaps the worst sufferers ought to be in wards open to the elements, with only a roof, like those used for patients recovering from tuberculosis before the invention of antibiotics (to which I would add feeding patients on fresh fish, since fish exports are going to waste because the EU is making export paperwork too long-winded, to restrict the amount of fish that gets through and increase the price of fish after it has arrived on the continent).

Tony Maskell Newton Ferrers, Devon