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.

In my Boomer youth, three flying ducks and a print of Mary...