An idea
Fight coronavirus, not each other: Pandemic 'accelerating' as global cases top 362,000 and UN chief calls for a global ceasefire so nations can focus on 'true fight of our lives'
By Luke May For Mailonline
18:45 GMT 23 Mar 2020 , updated 18:45 GMT 23 Mar 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8144001/Coronavirus-accelerating-chief-calls-global-ceasefire.html
Israel
No buses, strolls or shopping: Drastic new restrictions said set to be applied
Government reportedly to announce strictest limitations yet, including shuttering all stores but food markets and pharmacies and keeping people within 150 meters of home
By TOI STAFF
Today, 8:54 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-buses-strolls-or-shopping-drastic-new-restrictions-said-set-to-be-applied/
【UK🇬🇧】UK calls in army and warns people to stay home or face lockdown
Britain sent in the army to deliver protective equipment to hospitals on Monday and told people to stay at home and heed warnings over social distancing or the government would bring in more extreme measures to stop the coronavirus spread.
29 minutes ago · Reuters
https://coronavirus.thebaselab.com/
Soldiers tasked with disinfecting care homes in Spain find ABANDONED corpses as coronavirus crisis cripples the country
By Gerard Couzens for MailOnline
18:55 GMT 23 Mar 2020 , updated 19:00 GMT 23 Mar 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8144085/Soldiers-tasked-disinfecting-care-homes-Spain-ABANDONED-corpses.html
What I’m watching
It’s a good excuse for binge watching. I’ve been catching up on Black Mirror, because it feels like we are living in a particularly s— episode. My favourite series is Better Call Saul (on Netflix). And there’s a great French series called Le Bureau des Légendes (Amazon Prime).
What I’m listening to
John Lennon’s Isolation is a song for the times: “People say we’ve got it made/ Don’t they know we’re so afraid?/ Isolation.” Or Bryan Ferry’s Let’s Stick Together. The Boomtown Rats brought out a new album, Citizens of Boomtown, on Friday 13th to great reviews, then two hours later we were in lockdown. Theatres shut, tour cancelled.
What I’m reading
I’ve got two huge books on the go. I’ve been reading Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad. He was a great Russian war journalist and it’s a novelised version of his experiences. It’s been compared to War and Peace. It’s too big to carry around but I can get stuck in now I’m home. I’ve got started on Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light. And there’s always poetry. My own book (Tales of Boomtown Glory) is out with Faber, and while I was there for a meeting I…
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