Day 7 of the COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark

Day 7 of the COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark.

The Danish government unveils a 40 billion-kroner assistance package to keep small businesses (less than 10 employees) afloat through the lockdown. It will cover 75% of losses, capped at 23,000 kroner per month, applicable to those businesses that have lost more than 30% of sales. Restaurants and the like which remain open in violation of the lockdown will be fined 5,000 kroner.
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A phishing site pops up, pretending to be the Board of Health’s (Sundhedsstyrelsen).
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We look with hope to warmer spring days, to the long yellow sunbeams filled with ultraviolet light and the brisk winds that, while strong enough to disperse droplets many meters through the air, also serve to scatter the viruses within them into ineffective particles. Or so a microbiology expert on DR1 tells us.
We pray for nature’s intercession; empirical science is our religion. Confirmations (such a huge ritual for many 15-year olds and traditionally held throughout the month of May) are postponed to after Pentecost.
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I meet more students on-line, and paint a little. I put off sending the emails, to friends in one of the worst-hit areas, that I have been thinking about for days. It's hard to find the words.