Lol! There’s such a thing as “especially bad” Archer novel? One is really much worse than the others?
Newspaper would have worked... but iPads aren’t quite as accommodating.
Anyhoo - consensus in UK is that... we’re screwed!
Seriously, though, headline yesterday was that BoJo said that one-fifth of workers could be off work during the peak of this thing. What he doesn’t realise is that has now given everyone pretty much carte blanche to take a couple of weeks off work during the epidemic, whether they catch the virus or not. Self isolation... via Mallorca! (if one can get a flight!).
(Un)fortunately I’m able to work from home if the need arise. Damn you, technology!!
They reckon we’re on the border between containment and delay, but moving into the delay phase will need to be a global decision, as no point in one country trying to contain it when everyone else has gone into delay phase.
They (news, presumably from experts) also seem to be talking as if this will be a one-off infection... i.e. once everyone is affected it will have nowhere else to go, which is unlike seasonal flu which seems to change its clothes each year and comes back again for another round! Anyone seen anything to explain why they think this, and why it won’t go through flu-like mutations and keep coming back?
