I don't think the work should be 'lucky'. Fortunate would be the more appropriate word.
I have never seemingly succumbed to a virus. Maybe a mild virus with the occasional bout of three day flu. I've never had a flu jab ever. Honestly. Though for most of my working life over the last forty years I have been in places where you might not be in contact with influenza viruses. For five years I had a partner who was HIV Positive. We are no longer together but we are in contact and they are still living even after 25 years living with the virus. There were times that I was worried sick that I might have been infected. Happily I have always been tested negative. Each and every job change, during my medical examination, a HIV test has been mandatory. Now I'm out here in Papua New Guinea and again, I seem to be in a very fortunate place. Amazingly, and it's difficult to believe given the nature of the country, we are 208th out of 215 in the list of infected nations. only 8 cases of the virus have been detected, and zero deaths.
I'm fairly sure that if the desperately poor were dropping down like flies since Feb 1st, there would be an outcry of tremendous proportions. Papuans tend to get very worked up and angry when things go wrong. I'm in my 15th week in a semi lockdown here in Port Moresby and can travel around the city fairly easily. Travel out the country is OK, if, you travel to only either Singapore or Brisbane and currently face the 14 day quarantine on arrival. You cannot travel into Papua New Guinea unless you get specail permission from the PNG Government.
Here I'm feeling very safe. I doubt, listening to the BBC Radio, and reading UK News sites, that I'd feel just as safe if I was in the UK. So my fortune with viruses seems to continue.
Stay safe everyone back home in the UK.