Caught up in Corona!!

One of our employees has tested positive for ‘The Covid’ and I worked with her early last week, so I have been sent home to self-isolate, as per government instructions!
Philippa has panicked and banished me into one room only, but I have to say I’m delighted! I’ve been pushing hard to be allowed to work from home more often, now I get to see out the rest of this week delegating stuff to others from the post-Christmas comfort Chez Nous.
I’m not concerned about potentially being ill. I got bored of worrying about it during the first lockdown, and I know quite a few people who have had this thing and recovered from it, and while it was unpleasant for them for a few days, none of them really suffered. I also think, based on the timeline and having had a conversation with ‘The Infected One’ herself, that if I was going to start displaying symptoms it would have happened by now. We worked alongside each other on Tuesday. She started feeling ‘a bit rough’ on Friday and got tested early yesterday, because she takes shopping to her mum every week and she was worried about spreading anything nasty. “Just felt a bit woozy and breathy, but realised my morning coffee tasted crap, so thought I’d better get looked at,” she said.
They told her she was positive this morning and the quarantining started from there. So she’s sat at home on her own, but feeling better already, and Mr Muggins here gets a few extra days off because she might have accidentally coughed into my teacup or something while we passed each other in the serving cubicles on Tuesday.
All feels a bit odd, as we’re very good with our social distancing and I don’t think we were within 6 feet of each other at all, but I guess we have to follow the rules. I’ve been moaning for months about The Great British Public not doing as they’re told, so time to suck it up and be a good boy for a week or so.
I’m avoiding the office and I’m catching up on some movies I missed over Xmas, so its not exactly a hardship, is it?

RC 5-1-20
1645 GMT