Playing the mysoginy card really undermines the rest of your valid frustrations. It has nothing to do with you being a woman and it is you making an issue out of it. It's akin to Ali G 'is it cos I is black?'. Weak retort.

Edit: just noticed you worked for The Guardian. No wonder you pulled the sexist card at the first opportunity.

Ez comrade

men bully everyone, especially other men

it's a bold claim, do you have evidence you caught covid and not ME or similar?

the vaccine should help in that case
good luck

COVID in so many ways tends to leave more questions than answers.
The article that started this thread talks about how wide spread it was in late 2019, yet KOW government figures (questionable, I know), seem to report very little spread, that is until well over a year later, April 2021.

Final comment from me: Thank you to CEO for posting my article on Covid and long Covid, and to the people who made interesting and supportive comments, especially the person who contacted me privately with information on new research that I had not seen. The forum is technically well managed, and names mentioned come high up in search engine results, which is how I heard about the forum and the post. Perhaps CEO members might keep that in mind before questioning a journalist's professional integrity. Would they make comments, for example, about doubting a named doctor? Words have consequences. Professional integrity and personal suffering are not matters for flippancy. Thank you for reading.

Hey Michele,
CEO is a Cambodian discussion forum for expats, and if we have some sort of "motto" here, it's probably something like " question everything".
News items out of Cambodia, and about Cambodia, are often erroneous and misleading. We are a cynical bunch of posters, so don't take the questioning personally. Your comments on your article have been helpful.
All the best.

Thanks, Anchor Moy. You make a good point.

Michele, may I ask, has any doctor diagnosed you with having Covid19, or has it just been that it is a possibility.
You have certainly found many facts about the ailments of long covid. Then again being a professional in your field that's normal to yourself. Being someone else, this alone could come across has the person is self diagnosing, and are sure they have whatever illness from their research, self-assessment.
The other thing that was on my mind about this is that you are so confident that you caught Covid19 in Sihanoukville. Obviously because you become I'll at that time. Do you think that you may have been ill then with some other illnesses and not covid. Possibly being infected at a later date, even back in the UK.
I know these questions may come across has doubt's too your story, but believe me I know of similar types of illnesses with you could call, over long first and second study periods.
One more thing, being a regular visitor to SEA, on my return to the UK, I would first visit my GP, and request has many tests possible, due to some of them being done at overseas clinic or hospitals. Did you do anything like this on your return.
Like I say, I am not doubting your story and I wish you all the best on your recovery and good health.

Khmu Nation wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:59 am Playing the mysoginy card really undermines the rest of your valid frustrations. It has nothing to do with you being a woman and it is you making an issue out of it. It's akin to Ali G 'is it cos I is black?'. Weak retort.

Edit: just noticed you worked for The Guardian. No wonder you pulled the sexist card at the first opportunity.

Ez comrade

I read the article and when I got to this part I thought, where is the article going with this lot?

The I got to the bottom and saw The Guardian and it all made perfect sense.

The shortage of doctors and nurses in Britain is due largely to Brexit, the transition period of which ended on December 31, 2020. The majority of the European medical professionals we relied upon to prop up the National Health Service had to go home.

The Conservative government under former prime minister Theresa May spent millions of pounds recruiting medical staff from Africa and Asia, only for them to be denied immigration status because they did not meet the income threshold Mrs May had set while home secretary.

Unlike Australia, Britain did not impose lockdown or close borders early enough. The government wasted billions of pounds on test-and-trace schemes that did not work, on defective protective gear from Turkey and on supply contracts without tender to cronies of the government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

I have read your article and it’s very interesting. I personally do believe that Covid was around much sooner then the news of it was broken to world by China.

Just out of interest; I know of the difficulties in seeing a doctor in the crisis time of Covid stricken Britain, but have you had the antibody test pre getting your vaccine to know for sure you’ve had it?