We’ve been escalated. From ‘virtually nothing’ our national status has now been moved to ‘a little bit more’ as we, as a nation united, join together to avoid getting sick. Well, not really sick, but more, not very well for a day or two. So we’re into the official ‘delay’ phase in which we’re delaying… things. To help. Nothing headless chickeny about this, we’re being pro-active. Against what is now a ‘global pandemic’. Use the motto: feel in a state? Self isolate!! as your guide. I’m going into my 2-weeks tomorrow. Because I spoke on the phone to a woman whose mother-in-law’s nephew works with a man who came back from Milan. Ok, it was in 2011, but that’s not really the point here. It’s about caution. It’s about being ‘sensible’ and not taking risks and… and panicking.

Donald Trump has banned all flights to the States coming from Europe. Note: Britain is NOT part of Europe for this and for many other purposes. We can still go to Orlando any time we choose. Though Coronavirus is actually a much more pleasant option.

And as predicted, yesterday’s budget was all about Covid 19. And other vast expenditure. The days of austerity are behind us. You can’t fight a global pandemic with hope. You need cash. Billions of it/them/stuff. And the “NHS will have unlimited resources to fight this”. Which means building 10 new hospitals in the next 2 weeks but budgets aren’t about practicality, nor logistics. The money’s there.

There’s talk of playing every football match behind ‘closed doors’. Fans will get to watch it on a stream, pubs will not be allowed to show them for fear of 62,000 Spurs fans all spitting over each other in The Bill Nicholson on Tottenham High Road in a ‘lounge bar’ built for 27 people. There’s even talk of ‘cutting the season short’. In which case, would it be possible to cut it right back to the time when Spurs were in 4th place? I don’t think that’s too much to ask. All the games since have been due to Coronavirus anyway. Harry Kane; the virus affected his hamstring. Son; virus in the ankle, so we need to go back further.

More worrying that Australia is rife with the thing. Tom Hanks caught it there. Because when things happen in Australia there always ‘that bit more’. The most lethal snake. The most dangerous spider. The most toxic jellyfish. And probably the virulent virus. Stay away.

I’m bored and intrigued in equal measures. But if they stop the tubes, God help us all.

Happy Virus Day 72 (first reports from China about ‘cases’ was on Dec 31st, so probably, they’ve known about it since last July. That’s ‘transparency’ Chinese style)

A xxxx