Expensive strawberries might not be the end of it...

Coronavirus is obsessing the npb, and there is almost nothing else covered in teh Graun today:

Try this:

Ivanka Trump working from home as a precaution; US House passes virus aid package; China records 11 new cases; WHO says Europe is at centre of pandemic. Follow live news

• Apple closes all stores across world outside China due to Covid-19
• Newborn baby tests positive for coronavirus in London
• Queen forced to cancel engagements for first time
• Spain to enter state of emergency as EU nations step up measures
• Share your experiences

or this

US travel ban for 26 European countries comes into force

US House passes coronavirus aid package as Trump declares emergency

Saudi Arabia bans all flights into the kingdom

New Zealand to quarantine all arrivals
Canada shuts down parliament and bans large cruise ships

Governments across Latin America suspend flights from Europe

Southeast Asian countries makes changes to travel from Europe

Covid-19 testing kits no longer available in some parts of Australia

South Korea and China report low infections again

The global death toll reached 5,429, with 145,369 cases confirmed

 And this interestingly selective list of banned cultural events (nothing about sport)

• Human Rights Watch film festival, which started on 12 March and was due to run until 20 March, cancelled.
• Disney postpones indefinitely release of Mulan, The New Mutants and Antlers.
• Steve Martin and Martin Short cancel shows in Dublin and London (13-15 March).
• Record Store Day postponed until June. [wha?]
• BAM in New York cancels all live events and announces it will run its cinemas at 50% capacity.
• BPM festival (Miami, 22 March) postponed, new dates TBA.
• Under the Southern Stars Australia tour (3-19 April) cancelled.
• Rage Against the Machine postpone North American tour (26 March to 20 May), new dates TBA.
• Paris Opera cancels all performances of Manon until 3 April, George Balanchine until 10 April, the concert of Monteverdi, Rossi and Handel on 18 March, Don Giovanni from 21 March to 24 April.
• Lifeboat (Catherine Wheels production) at East Linton Community Hall, Scotland, on 14 March cancelled. [Quelle horreur for East Linton]
• London Irish Centre announces cancellation of St Patricks Day events.
• Rathbones Folio prize ceremony cancelled, winner will be announced 23 March.
• International Booker prize shortlist ceremony cancelled (was 2 April).
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Charing Cross Theatre postponed. [Friends of the Arts Editor?] 

There are only a couple of Graun inflections. There are adverse comparisons with our much more enlightened European neigbhbours, of course, and:

A lack of resources could mean that younger, healthier patients are prioritised, while others are left to die 

Good news for millenials you would have thought, but the young might still include hoi polloi? Our man in the mask J Ives (middle aged?), deputy director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol says:

This may be anathema to those of us, including myself, who intuitively prefer a “first come, first served” queuing system. That seems familiar, impartial, equitable and fair.

Classic npb stuff here -- those who are organised enough (possess enough cultural and economic capital) to join queues early would see no problems of course. That is how the npb muscles in to monopolise any 'universal' opportunities. 

O Jones has a more incisive grasp (for a change)

Thanks to a decade of austerity, the Tories have ensured the pandemic will hit the poor the hardest  

We know the rich look after their own, but these injustices are not acts of God or mere sad facts of life to be shrugged at with resignation. There will be many terrible lessons to learn from this pandemic: one is a lesson that should have been learned long ago, that inequality kills.