The office today was nearly empty. So were the streets. I guess people are staying at home.

In the gym, people were wiping down their barbells with soapy water. But nobody was worried about door handles, which have been touched by a hundred times more hands than those bars! It’s like wearing those face masks that all the news sources tell you don’t help. But it makes people feel less anxious.

Meanwhile, the Stockholm region has announced that they will stop testing people for the coronavirus, with the exception of hospitalized cases – the argument being that resources are better spent caring for sick people than testing those who might be sick. And that just a day or two after reassuring statements about how we have all the resources we need. The trade-off is reasonable, but it does not feel reasonable at all that we reached the point of having to make that trade-off so soon. So we won’t have any meaningful statistics about the spread of the virus from now on. Not impressed.