Rather eerie quietness a lot of the day, with the birdsong unnaturally loud.

Worked from home. There'll be a regular video chat with all of us at 9.30 each day from tomorrow.

At the Co-op you weren't allowed more than 2 of anything. Now, if they'd all brought that in a week ago, this whole thing would've been a lot easier.

Read Journal of the Plague Year on Gutenberg. Lot of apposite quotes.

The day went by quite fast. Is this what unemployment would've been like if I'd had the internet?

Story about a flu antiviral being effective in some COVID cases. Probably too soon to relax. Might punt on equities though. If things turn out bad, money will be no good to me anyway.

Occurred to me today that the two groups of people I probably most despise - Leavers and the far-right fuel blockaders from 2000 - have done me a big, big favour by prompting me to lay in supplies. Otherwise I might have been caught like the narrator of Plague Year, with nothing in stock.

Also occurred to me today that, if there is going to be any more history, future historians will be fascinated by us, they'll think 'What was it like to live through 2020-21, how was it to see one's whole view of the universe contradicted and destroyed?' We'll seem to them like the people of 1939 or 1929 or 1914 or 1796 or 1687 do to us.

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