Self-isolating for four months sounds horrible - I really do worry that the "cure" to protect everyone from this virus is going to be far worse than the disease itself. Shuting down cities, and bringing the economy to a grinding halt while everyone is isolated from "in-person" human connections seems overly drastic.

I work in a supermarket here in Australia, in a smallish regional town, and we are progressivly running out of more and more product lines. Now we are cutting services (my department is online and click and collect) - the entire click and collect service has been suspended nationwide. We are shortening trading hours and every day looks like christmas eve with people everywhere, filling up trolleys with what they can.

All this is despite not having a single case of Covid19 in our region.

I really hope you get to see your proposal through to implementation. It sounds like very important work and a much needed (sadly) service. Best wishes for its success.

Good luck with the Ants - whenever we get ants invading here it usually means rain is coming soon. I guess in England it rains all the time so that doesn't really help as an warning to take your umbrella (lol).

Anyway, thanks for sharing how things are in your part of the world, lets hope this epidemic fades into a distant memory soon enough.

JK.