One of the tell-tale signs of the onset of Coronavirus Cabin Fever is that you start noticing the home office background bookshelves in Skype social-distancing (SocDis) media interviews on cable TV.
After 18-hour days of sitting in front of the plasma wall in PJs watching “the greatest crisis ever to befall mankind” unfold live 24/7 on Foxtel, you start to ignore the talking head with streams of techno-cerumen dripping from their ears in the foreground, and concentrate instead (head tilted 45 degrees) on the fascinating book spines backdrop behind the ears.
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