Covid-19.“I had a friend who was a critical care nurse in New York City,” he says, “and I heard what was going on there.“I firmly believed that as healthy as I was, I wouldn’t get it, it wouldn’t affect me."He says he thought the pandemic was only a problem for older people, or people in big cities, and it wouldn’t be a problem for him, in rural Parsons, Kansas.
He admits that his attitude back then was “ridiculous and inexcusable.”Because now, seven months after he was first diagnosed with coronavirus, Anil is still weak and tired, and short of breath.