Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you 🔗 — Excerpt: Governments across the world face the same dilemma: how to contain the spread of Covid-19 while at the same time re-opening their shuttered societies. The stakes are immense. Open up too early and the death toll could sky-rocket, putting health systems under enormous strain.

Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — Excerpt: Right now, more than ever, we need a hopeful view of human nature. While we’re right to keep our physical distance from those around us to stop the spread of the virus, we also need to believe that it’s these same people who will get us through it. We need to trust them.

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Watched: Suicide Squad, 2016 - ★★★½ 🎥

Watched: The Game, 1997 - ★★★½ 🎥

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Intense Santorini 🇬🇷

Evening games.

Lockdown just got serious - teaching my wife and daughter to play chess - their first game… ♟

Watched: The Wandering Earth, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥

Currently reading: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq 📚

ECB announces further delay to the professional cricket season. No professional cricket will be played in England and Wales until at least 1 July – ECB 🔗 🏏

Watched: Things to Come, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for piadina flatbread 🔗 — Excerpt: No 17 on my plan of things to do when things change: take the 7.25am train from Roma Termini to Ravenna, walk out of the station in search of the first place that will serve me a piadina romagnola, then eat the warm fold as I walk towards Piazza Del Popolo. Until then, I will make them at home.

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