Daily: ILL MANNERS with comic Sindhu Vee

The Bunker

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4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What’s it like to actually have COVID-19? Stand-up comedian SINDHU VEE tells Ian Dunt about the experience of being laid out by the virus – how to be an “Indian Mum Bad Cop” in trying circumstances – and what she learned along the way. “When you can’t really breathe, your body is like, HOLY SHIT.” “I totally reached my target weight with COVID, though. And it lasted about two weeks.” “When you’re Indian, you have doctor friends coming out of your ears.” Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.4	politics dot-coated UK and I'm the editor of politics dot coke and I'm
1:13.8	joined today by stand-up comedian Sindhu V hello Sindhu how are you good
1:17.4	morning I'm very well I'm basically am desperate to ask you about a delicate
1:21.7	matter of what it's like to have COVID because you have had COVID and I'm kind of yeah yeah yeah I well okay I'm happy to talk about it I think it's one of those things. I feel quite lucky because I had it at a time when three or four people I knew were just ahead of me by a few days.
1:40.0	And I had like a 16 day really really full COVID thing and so did they so if I hadn't this was early in March I just come back from South Africa
1:50.9	Probably not a good idea during a pandemic starting up to rub yourself all over a flight, but I couldn't help it. I mean I wasn't rubbing myself, but you know how flights are there. But anyway, so it is important to hear from people who had it who didn't end up in hospital,
2:05.8	because the majority of people are going to be like that.
2:08.7	And I don't have an underlying health condition, thank God.
2:12.8	But anyway, it was very good for me to talk to those people because they were like,
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