Phoned John just now to find out how he and Maureen are going on. He sounded cheerful enough. I was somewhat relieved to hear that Louise is no longer working at the care home where she'd been employed as a hair-dresser, given the very worrying news about the parlous state of some of those homes in the current crisis. Also, in entirely selfish terms it's one less doubtful link between John and Maureen and the outside world.
John was unusually perspicacious in guessing that Noi and myself remain far from troubled by current circumstances. It's a disturbing irony, isn't it? Our situation remains a comfortable one in a time when many others, here, there and everywhere, are being pushed to their limits. Disease is a powerful connector but not an agent of equality - or, rather, acts as such only at the extreme.
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