‘I expect my elderly parents to die – but to suffer alone?’:the truth about caring through Covid

Toilet-roll paranoia, terminal shortness of breath: my nonagenarian parents and I were there before it went mainstream. How would we cope with the pandemic?

Two hundred and twenty days into the pandemic and I am uncertain which is the bigger threat to my father - my impatience or Covid-19.

Bad news about the new lockdown, I offer.