[davidjay]

Herself was ill, worse than she'd been since pneumonia many years earlier, throughout December. We'd just got back from Japan and South Korea.

[kreuzberger]

The Gang of Four guitarist, Andy Gill, reportedly succumbed in the December in China to the virus. Late the following January, we were penned in to exit control at Bangkok airport, masked up as recommended by an old mate who lives there and has seen these viruses "spread like a Khmer hooker", as he put it.

His Khmer wife was less than impressed but passed us a fist full of masks for the journey back to Europe, nonetheless.