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Hi, I'm Damon Hart-Davis and this is an Earth Notes mini-podcast episode for 21st March,


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2020.
Here in London, as many places elsewhere, we're in a fair degree of lockdown with pubs


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and schools closed, public transport reduced and distancing measures in place. All to try


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to suppress the spread of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2. It's


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a lovely sunny day today and I've just been out for a walk in the cemetery next door,


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keeping my distance from other people. I did pass a friend on the street and we chatted


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for a while at a couple of metres' distance.  (I confess to nipping to the corner shop


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to buy some crisps but I kept interaction minimal and I think hygienic.) I may have already


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had my run-in with the bug, possibly catching it at Futurebuild while on stand. I did seven


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days of self-isolation just in case. Then, when the rules changed, my family was dragged


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in alongside me for a few days. They were just out in time for the likely last day of
school before summer.
Tomorrow is Mothers' Day, so we aim to order take-away from our favourite


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local Italian place, supporting them and having some good food. I already bought in a bunch


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of beer for my favourite local brewery, purely to support them in their hour of need, not


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because of the hops. The Radbot business is functioning since we all basically work from


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home when we've just closed a funding round but we have to expect sales and further investment


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to be hard. Never mind lots of day-to-day logistics. I don't think that my heat storage


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we'd have filled it up on a couple of recent days. Older family members seem okay and all


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going to stay with slightly younger relatives for a while to avoid some risks and lots of


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boredom. We cancelled a visit to one and it's not clear if a trip that we booked to the


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south coast with the other will need to be cancelled too, nor am I sure that we'll be


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making it to the south of France this summer, however green our transport would be. We'll


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survive but the world is likely to be quite different in the 18 months that a vaccine
will take to become widely available.
I hope that people realise that some of their more


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carbon intensive habits broken over the next few months can simply be jettisoned. Let's


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see.
There's more on my Earth Notes Web site at Earth.Org.UK.