Busy, Not

Popped into the big Kinokuniya at KLCC just now to see if they had copies of C.J. Sansom's Dark Fire. I tried to get the follow-up to the excellent Dissolution at the equally large Kino on Orchard Road the other week but they were oddly Sansom-less. The KL branch proved superior in this respect, and I also took the opportunity to grab the third in the Shardlake series, Sovereign, thinking that this is likely to be hard to acquire in our usual Far Place.

The area round KLCC was a bit busier than Melawati Mall, but not hugely so. Fears of the coronavirus are keeping the crowds away and it's not difficult to practise a form of social isolation since there are so few folk around. We were wondering how the shops needing the crowds are going to survive. Devan, our part-time gardener was telling us that his business ferrying tourists from KLIA to the city has dried up. The economics of the crisis come second to the concerns over health, of course, but with livelihoods at stake, especially related to small businesses, the economic concerns are disturbingly real and current.