Being quarantined leaves you a lot of time to ponder upon stuff — even if you actually work from home so you need to pump through your 8 hours a day writing and editing anyway. Some reflect on the meaning of life and the necessity to “slow down” for real, even after Covid-19 will leave us alone, others have taken up the romantic role of their household’s philosophers, others still more prosaically embraced the homemakers in them and just … started baking the heck out of this lockdown.

Now, while I admit I have been doing some baking myself — which I had to recently give up, after jumping on the scale and almost fainting at the numbers I read — solitary confinement made me considerer a thing or two about my country and my people, some more serious, some more lighthearted.