I love a sci-fi film & I've seen a few over the years where extreme measures have been taken to try to contain some malignant threat or other. "Totally unrealistic" you think as you watch it, yet here we are, everything in dear Italy (where we lived for 6.5 years) is closed except food shops. This viral threat is quite without parallel in our lifetimes; I suppose you'd have to go back to WWII to see measures anything like as extreme being imposed on entire populations. I suspect that even a decade ago these measures simply wouldn't have been taken and the virus would be everywhere almost immediately.

It's bad enough in a modern Western country but just wait until it gets into Egypt / Somalia / Bangladesh / Afghanistan etc with little or no healthcare system & the numbers will start to look very different. With even a 1% mortality rate, if 80% of the global population gets it, 1% of that is a lot of people.

With our lifestyles (not working, cycling / trekking as hobbies) we're effectively self-isolating anyway; apart from food shops the only outsider we see regularly is our French (language) teacher who call in once or twice a week. Perhaps we should put her on hold...?

You have to go back to the 18th century to see as big a daily drop in UK share prices; yesterday was worse than Black Monday, worse then the 2008 financial crisis....as Ian said, a very bumpy ride.

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