Dear Readers,
I have just returned to Sydney from a shortened trip to the
USA, which was disrupted by the coronavirus epidemic. I have no symptoms, I'm
glad to say, but I am a potential carrier, from contacts in
airports, meetings, hotels, restaurants etc. So, following public-health
recommendations about slowing the spread of the virus, I am self-isolating for 14 days.
Isolation diary, Day 1
Main features: washing travel clothes; packing
travel things away; doing travel paperwork; reading news about COVID-19; jetlag. Twitter
feed: a solid stream of virus stories - displacing the US election, global warming, the
Australian environmental catastrophe, and the general world crisis in everything.
Cuisine: anything that needs an absolute minimum of energy to get on the plate.
Morale-building reading: back issues of Dykes to Watch Out For; and a
fabulous book of poetry, Renny Golden's The Music of Her Rivers, which I
found in a little shop in Chicago. Mood: indigo, tempered by jetlag.
Day 2
The same.
Watch this space!
