Twitter’s role in a time of global pandemic,

How do you cope with losing half your income in a matter of weeks?

I’m struggling tonight, as I read about the people who are looking at this period of social distancing and self-isolation as a special, cocooning time. I know that they are seeing it as a rare chance to invest time in themselves and their family as an antidote to the fear and uncertainty around us all. I do get that. But I’m jealous.

Those of us who earn our living in face-to-face situations — training in my case — just don’t have the luxury of doing that. For me, it looks like it will be the period where half my income disappears - possibly for over a year. I have good friends whose income is dependent on the events industry in the same boat.

I don’t have the luxury of viewing this as special cocooning time. This will be have to be the period where I have to make memberships work on One Man & His Blog, or manage to sell my training as online courses instead, or get more consultancy work, or something…

In a matter of weeks I’ve gone from a financially comfortable situation to a perilous one. That’s not a time for cocooning. I love my family. And I need to keep them clothed and fed.

My daughters are currently in the bath pretending to be antibodies attacking a virus as it binds to cells. 😶

I suppose this is what happens to children with a molecular biologist as a mother…

Video from my wife of Victoria Station this morning at around 10am. She estimates it was 80% quieter than normal…

Supermarket delivery is being overwhelmed

Lewis Dormer:

25% of UK shoppers polled by RetailX have reduced or completely stopped shopping ‘in person at physical stores’ while 5% report a temporary increase

Online grocery deliveries are now fully booked for over two weeks in many parts of the UK. If we’re expecting whole families with symptoms to self-isolate for a fortnight, they’re going to need find ways of upping availability of delivery slots.

Hard to disagree with the last line of this, although I hope we’ll see better behaviour, too.

Behaviour change is hard. But if we don’t evolve - we suffer the consequences.

Social distancing at my local coffee shop.

I have no words for this:

The UK Only Realised “In The Last Few Days” That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would “Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths

Well, things are getting a little, um, motivating.

I’m self-employed, and make the major part of my income from face-to-face training. Looks like I need to find a way to replace that income stream for some months.

I have ideas. But this is going to be challenging.