According to Andrew Neil, France is about to go into mental lockdown. As you get to leave your house once a day lockdown and only for a food shop. Which presumably is why they moved quite early to protect people's pay. They knew it was coming.
We've got our first few cases now, with some in ICU. There's a weird atmosphere about. Lot's of clinical people who know there's a storm coming. All of my meetings have been cancelled (because they rely on clinical people to make them useful) other than one which has been established to give us a daily update on what's happening. I expect the work from home order is going to come quite quickly.
I'm starting to hear anecdotal evidence of it spreading too. One lad here has a cousin and a friend who have been tested positive. Both in their twenties, both okay, but ill enough not to be able to get out of bed. In this context I think 'mild symptoms' means been knocked off your feet for a bit rather than a bit of a sniffle.
I have a bit of a cough, which I've deemed to be intermittent rather than continuous, but how the fuck do you know? The reason I'm in is my temperature is at 36.7 and I have a bit of a runny nose which apparently doesn't really happen with this. My approach underlines the issue though - people are going to spread it because they'll do what I'm doing.