Look up Midgard author/registration info. They list a general area where they live.

Did some amateur sleuthing. I looked at his symptoms and they reminded me a bit of Covid-19 though it could be something else obviously, I then found that the author listed Morocco as where he lives. Checked out the Covid-19 statistics for Morocco and it doesn't look good. They had a massive spike of Covid-19 at the same time he got sick and wen't missing. We are talking almost double the previous highs for his area.