Interesting take on treatment for Covid-19… twitter.com/NachoOliveras/…

Just in case we can’t get out for exercise – I’ve turned my Brompton into an exercise bike!

RT @ipghq: A welcome reminder via @royalsociety that publishing has survived pandemics before…

Got the kids watching @FryRsquared’s Royal Institution Xmas lectures – not knowing that the first one has an uncannily prescient demonstration of how diseases spread (in this case with zombie masks). Fantastic stuff.

Deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam is a spectacular imbecile for saying testing is ‘a bit of a side issue’. All measures are in the dark without it.

In years to come today’s kids will reminisce about how they used to play Lockdown Ginger – initiating a video call with a curmudgeonly relative or neighbour and then disappearing when they answer.

Is it wrong that I now refer to other humans as ‘vectors’? (And my son and I point them out in the distance on our country walks.)

Excellent people fundraising for 3D printing visors for hospital use: gofundme.com/f/3d-printed-f…

.@nntaleb @TaylorPearsonMe You might like this early, pointed, sadly all-too relevant observation about the precautionary principle from good old Aesop: infoplease.com/primary-source…

@Kathyrnor @j4 @duncanparkes Yep, back up – though *possibly* rate slowing – too early to call!