Classes of people at moderate risk from Covid-19. Addenda to current NHS guidelines. Those at risk from coronavirus now include people who:
• Are 70 or older.
• Have a lung condition that’s not severe (such as asthma, COPD, emphysema or bronchitis).
• Have heart disease (such as heart failure).
• Have diabetes.
• Are a London property owner, or buy-to-let landlord.
You’re at particularly high risk from Covid if you’re an epidemiologist in an open marriage
• Are running a university as a highly lucrative property and real-estate business (with a small pedagogical business attached); i.e. 90 per cent of higher education. You’re now just the Open University with crenellations.
• Are married to a frequent business traveller. Not only is the miserable git going to be home much more than before, but they will soon turn the spare bedroom into a ‘home broadcast studio’: i.e.
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