1/ I have a podcast to record and an article about the backlog in the British healthcare system to post and about 150 emails to get to (or not)... but I can’t help thinking about The Long Walk, one of @StephenKing’s underappreciated gems. The premise is simple...

2/ A dystopian military society has an annual contest: 100 young men enlist to walk without stopping. Anyone who slows below 4 miles per hour for three minutes is killed (if you start walking again, over time you get the minutes back). The entire game is televised live...

3/ And the last man standing wins. It’s classic King psychological horror (which I prefer to his supernatural horror). But the point of the story is that none of us really knows how much we can endure until we’re tested...

4/ Some crack fast, others slow. But everyone will crack eventually. No one can walk forever.

5/ These lockdowns have barely been a month. Some of us have already cracked. Most haven’t. But we all will, sooner or later. Until no one’s left to walk.