Normally I don’t respond to your posts but after reading this one I thought it worthy of a detailed answer. First off, I hope for the best for you and your girlfriend and her son. Hopefully you stay healthy and/or recover. Here’s what it means to you:
1. You stand a better chance than you did before of catching the virus yourself. Hopefully you won’t.
2. if you catch it, you may die. Odds are low, but not non-existent. Obviously we all hope it doesn’t happen.
3. if you catch it, you may suffer permanent damage to your body, including liver and/or kidney function. Scientists don’t quite understand all of this yet. Again the odds are low, though higher than dying.
4. If you catch it you may suffer worse than any sickness you have ever had, for at least 2-3 weeks, and even possibly need hospital care. Odds of this are about 10-20% based on my understanding, though they may be much lower or higher; we just don’t know due to insufficient testing.
5. If you catch it you have the chance to spread it to a high risk person, over the age of 70 or with diabetes or heart problems, (sometimes unknown to them) which could cause serious illness or death to that person or persons. Please be very careful and if you have it, you need to quarantine yourself for at least 2 weeks.
Again hopefully you don’t suffer any of this. Best wishes to you.