davidgillon | In This Time of Plague

Talking to my sister a lot today. She stayed home from school, which is completely justifiable, her husband is multiply high risk, but she was feeling guilty about it. That was helped somewhat by two other teachers with high risk family members also being out, and by her head telling her that if she'd come in she'd have sent her home anyway. Apparently they have 17 families self-isolating in the school population, though she suspects some of them are just isolating on general principle, rather than having a reason for it (there's still only a single case in County Durham). She suspects the head is hoping for enough teachers to self-isolate she can justify closing the school, whatever Boris says.

I find myself wondering how this compares with the polio outbreaks, but I suspect 70 years on the world is so highly geared that the comparison isn't really valid.

In more trivial things I manged to get Ark running after a week of it refusing to start. I finally thought to do a file verify and Steam reported 7 were dubious. Whoops. Ran first time after that, though it had wiped all of my settings, meaning I had to fix them all from memory. Looks like I've just about got everything sorted, so I'll be hiding in a virtual world whenever I'm too stressed for the real one. I'm seriously considering ticking the option to turn off in-game diseases as catching mega-rabies when I'm trying to hide from COVID-19 would truly suck.

Some of the projections for aviation I'm seeing are apocalyptic. One forecasts only 30 airlines will survive by May. So it's likely we'll see long term changes from this, even with government intervention.

Interesting Times.