Paper masks! Toilet rolls!!

So, the collapse of civilization and rapid descent into anarchy will be marked not by bloodshed and wanton destruction, but by the panic buying of toilet roll.
Today, in a first I suspect for any of the OECD countries, the government of Japan officially announced that the toilet paper situation was ... okay! The NHK news showed warehouses stocked from floor to ceiling with rolls and rolls of paper and a man in a hard hat tried his best to convince us that there was enough in the warehouse for a country of 128 million people.
'Cheese', I replied.
'What?' said Cian.
'Cheese', I repeated. 'What the Japanese need to do is eat less rice and consume more cheese. Makes you constipated. That and, eh, persimmons.'

Some other random observations:
* Cian is now finishing his first week of enforced holidays (he stopped school last Wednesday). And he is bored. Completely and utterly bored. He is effectively banned from meeting his friends, rugby has been stopped for the foreseeable future, public facilities like parks, swimming pools and libraries have all been closed, and he has no interest in computer games. And 5 more weeks to go of the same.
* Partially, I suspect, in response to the above, Cian's school have contacted him to say that from Friday, homework will be posted on his school's homepage. And it will be regularly updated. And that, currently, he should be studying at home every day from 9:00am to 3:00pm just like a normal school day.
* In response to both of the above, I am taking Cian skiing tomorrow.
* I am supposed to be traveling to Myanmar next week for work. I am supposed to be flying from Sapporo to Yangon on Korean Air via Incheon. Korean Air emailed me earlier this evening to say that my initial flight has been cancelled and the rescheduled flight means that I will have to spend more than 24 hours in Korea.
* Korea has now close on 5,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
* Ergo, I will not be flying with Korean Air and spending more than 24 hours in Korea.
* Today the University announced that they are canceling this year's graduation ceremony which was due to take place in two weeks time.
* The new academic year is due to begin on April 8th, but I reckon Paddy Power wouldn't give you particularly good odds on that happening.
* As of this evening, Hokkaido still tops the domestic COVID-19 league table for most confirmed cases. We're at 79, nearly twice the total of second placed Tokyo (on 39).
* No cases in Muroran so far, though Sanae sneezed a couple of times this evening ...