I covered the important implications of the current crisis yesterday. One major point is the current lack of football, which is now extended to 30th April at least. Things have become more serious. Someone posted on Twitter “This Coronavirus thing was only supposed to stop Liverpool winning the Premiership.” Now, they are closing the pubs.

We are living in strange times. We have a Tory government doing stuff that Jeremy Corbyn might have thought twice about. People are stripping the supermarkets of almost anything edible, as well as toilet paper. In some ways, it is a rational response to the prospect of being isolated for up to fourteen days. Still, it has also shown that the market doesn’t have the answers in this case. Schools are closed, pubs, restaurants and cinemas are closed. In the space of a fortnight life in the UK has changed, perhaps for ever. No one knows when this will end. I think that even fewer people think that life will just revert to what it was before afterwards.

I have been trying to work out what I feel and think about all this. I know one thing for sure. I feel happier when I am with Diane (as I am now). I feel less happy when I am on my own.

It feels like the run up to Christmas. Everything is closing down. People are buying much more than they actually need. It is not a bottle of Avocat in case Auntie Doris comes. Instead, it is pasta, rice, and loo roll. Christmas is all over in a few days. Even if you hate Christmas, you can grin and bear it. This is different.

In some ways, it seems to me more like the week before Grace died. I was stuck in a bubble, waiting for something that I didn’t want to happen. Something that I knew was going to happen, but not when. That is what our current situation feels like.

How is it going to play out. I don’t know. Most people seem to recover from disease. Some people have mild or no symptoms. So it probably isn’t the end of the world, even if it seems that it is at times.

The worst fallout is probably going to be economic. Many people have already been laid off. Some companies will probably go under. The government has produced unprecedented measures to try and support business and workers who have been laid off.

When this is all over, I hope we can take a good look at how we organise the world. I know that Covid-19 is an immediate threat, but when it comes down to it not an existential one. If we can take these drastic steps to fight this. Then, we can also take some equally radical action to prevent the actual existential threat of climate change.

Oh and hopefully some football.