Colm O'Regan: the people working to find this virus are working their holes off

Cough, she said. Cough, cough cough, she went on. My wife got a cough. A cough we hoped wasn’t The Cough. She rang the doctor confessing the cough hoping to gain absolution. Hoping to be told everything would be fine but then, she had a coughing fit while on the phone so the doctor didn’t have much choice but to recommend The Test.

Spoiler alert: She’s negative for covid. This is not a big dramatic story. But it was interesting how even the smallest brush with world of The Virus makes you first lose perspective and then gain a bit of empathy.