I’ve been retweeting some of these posts, but I now realise they make a topical mini-series on drôle responses to the current crisis:

Waggish replies from freelance musicians in adversity:

• Social commentary.

A worthy pastime in an age of limited mobility:

• Armchair ethnography (“Come and live in Chiswick, your statistical chance of survival is relatively high”).

One may even be reduced to cooking:

• In the kitchen 2.

The current parade on our screens of bookshelves as background eye-candy cries out for Flann O’Brien’s Buchhandlung service—in

• Myles: a glowing paean.

You may even be able to get a haircut:

• At the barbers.

And as the purgatory of global travel grinds into gear again, a bassoon soloist is

• searched in countries all over the world.

For plucky Brits running the gauntlet of quarantine (sallying forth from Chinese cliché):

• Balham, gateway to the south

On a more serious note, here you can find four responses to the

• Coronavirus in China.