Covid-19 has devastated lives and livelihoods across the world since early last year.For some lucky enough to survive being hospitalised, it’s dramatically affected how they view the future.Here the Daily Star Sunday’s Phil Burkett recounts his experience fighting the virus and how it has changed his outlook forever.Just after Christmas, on Monday, December 28, I started showing the full symptoms of Covid-19.By the Wednesday I’d received and returned my home testing kit, with the result coming back “positive” on January 2.For the next four days, my health deteriorated rapidly – no appetite, sense of smell nor taste, along with a raging 38/39C temperature.On January 7 things took a dramatic turn for the worse.