It can start off as a bit of a cough or slight runny nose. You might not even think you're sick.

But before you know it – you could end up in ICU with machines to help you breathe.

You'll spend weeks if not months of your life alone in a hospital bed.

You might recover – if you can call it that.

You won't need the machines any more – but like June, you won't be quite the same.

Memory loss. Problems moving your body the way you want to. Ongoing breathing difficulties.

Or you might not recover. Maybe the best doctors and nurses, the best hospitals and the best equipment can't save you.

This virus doesn't discriminate. It's so incredibly contagious.

And you just don't know how it will affect you.

Some people are lucky. Theirs is a mild case.

Others aren't so lucky.

Please don't take that chance.

For yourself. For your family. For every single Victorian.