I've name changed for this.
I think it's already here in Britain, and I think I'm recovering from it.
About a week and a half ago, I came down with the strangest virus I've ever had. It was a bit like a mild cold at first with no sneezing, just a pouring nose, but within a day, my ribs began to feel like a shrinking cage. They would seize if I moved in bed, or tried to turn my body. It got so bad by last Friday that I couldn't get out of bed without spasming pain, and I got really rather frightened.
At one point, I wondered if I'd put my middle back out; at another, I wondered if it was the start of MS symptoms. The pain spasms kept changing and moving; they started off at the bottoms of my rib cage like a tightening band around my torso, and a few days later, they were up by bra strap.
Then the following day, I started to feel a lot better, but it left me utterly exhausted. I'm still coughing up very thick mucus (it's like glue).
Whatever I've had, it wasn't like my previous experiences of cold or flu. I had bacterial pneumonia once, and it felt more like that. And I suspect it may have been covid-19.