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Old 18th May 2020, 11:40
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Ebbie 2003
 
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For what it's worth.

I am hypertensive and type 2 - have skirted the medical requirements for years.

After six weeks of isolation (oddly little or no recreational eating) and two weeks in quarantine (they asked about conditions, so fed me their diabetic diet) - I have lost a chunk of weight. Tested myself BP and sugar - get this BP 100/72 (after I stopped taking my beta blocker and diretic) and blood sugar of 5.2, a 4.6 and then 6.7 after eating - prior to this was struggling to keep it close to 8 (I take no diabetic drugs). So I seem to have benefitted from this whole virus thing - silver linings.

On a related note yesterday the country was declared virus free and after no deaths in this first wave - lockdown rules, curfew and closed borders continue in prep for the second wave.
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