To make things worse, last night there was a two-hour documentary about the Great Plague of London and how they practised social distancing to try to contain it.
Modern science from France found the plague was not passed on from rats, but the fleas and lice on them; when the rats died, the varmints jumped onto humans for a feed.
The good news is no panic buying, plenty of parking spaces, and I exchanged the shorts for the correct size.