A Student’s Guide To Fighting COVID-19

Umair Afzal
11 min readNov 4, 2020
Yes, the pandemic is very real. Denial is absolutely pointless.

On the afternoon of the 22nd October, I shouted from the kitchen to the first floor of our student home to my housemate, Ed, asking him how his new workout was going. He looked down from the top of the staircase saying my voice sounded odd and whether I had a cold. In the typical style of Umair Afzal, I answered his question with my classic response:

“I’ll be fine Ed, I’m fine in myself. I know…

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