An update on my Hungarian mate. The drugs they have given him have worked miracles and is now testing negative for COVID. He is still crook and has bad pneumonia but the virus has been stopped and wont progress.
He just has to recover from the pneumonia.
Great. Good chance he would have been gone had he gotten a similar viral load six to nine months ago, so like many, probably owes his life to modern medicine.
Oxygen alone saves so many from pneumonia, so would be interesting to know the numbers that it has saved from a covid related lung ailment.
Yeah I agree. Seems they have some good drugs for it now, doesnt seem to get publicised much. Probably for good reason with some of the politicising and conspiracy theories surrounding the virus.
Thank you and everyone for your well wishes, I have been really worried about him. He is a great bloke. He and another friend of mine founded The White Cross Animal Protection League in Hungary (Their RSPCA). In the last 10 years he has established a massive programme where he rescues Bears from all over the world from circuses and other captivity, rehabilitates them, re-educates them and the releases them onto a 400Acre property where they live out their days free in the wild. he does the same thing with Wolves which are routinely killed to protect stock.
Two years ago I visited his program and got to interact with the Wolves and one young bear. Incredible experience and he is a great man.

This is him with Lilu, the bear that he is currently rehabilitating and the one I got to interact with. Lilu was 9 months old when her mum was shot and she was brought to Pisti. When I met Lilu, I was inducted with safety instructions. Unlike a wolf, bears have no facial expression and a bear that is about to attack looks the same as a happy bear so I was on edge. Then I am told that because Lilu was so young when she was left alone, she will not eat unless she gets to suck on your hand first. It is a very unsettling feeling to stick your hand in bears mouth intentionally, but then she will happily feed. Lilu will possibly never get to go into the wild with the other bears and wolves as she seems too attached to humans.

Interaction with the wolves was an incredible experience. you learn so much, everything is about the pack and hierachy. Unlike the stereotype, the alpha is ALWAYS female and she decides who can enter the pack. I was allowed to be with them. My partner and stepdaughter were not able to because the alpha can smell they are female and wont let them in. Once in you have to squat down low with your hands on the ground and the alpja will come over and sniff you and walk around you. Once she licks you the rest of the pack comes over.
Sorry for the long travel stories, but I am very relieved he is on the mend.