Am I the only one to think about this.. but surely all the worlds airlines can't just go bankrupt.. there has to be a solution. And here it is: All international travellers be tested at the point of travel? You'd have to turn up 3 hours early, be tested - and if clear be allowed to check-in. They just need 10 minute tests..  This way the virus couldn't migrate between countries, you wouldn't need to social distance once air-side or onboard, and the world could start to functioning again.. I could see my wife and family. You read it here first!!

Meanwhile, life goes on. I took a trip into Denpasar with Ringo, we went to buy a photo studio set up and a colour laser printer. The idea is to photograph all the new products here so that we can save time later. Also, we want to print picture barcodes on all the packaging, and cartons. Denpasar.. it's an exotic city. lots of gardens, tropical plants, low-rise - no towers at all. Normally it is gridlocked a huge slowly moving traffic jam. But now clean air, the streets seem wider and almost empty, a few people all wearing masks (it's the law now) walking, shops open but empty.  I said to Ringo, it's like a sleepy provincial town, a pleasant place to be. 

So Ringo has a brother, who has a daughter.. Natalie.. I said that's not a Bali name.. she said.. "cause my dream is to go to America, so I have an American name"..  

One office has lots of natural light. She is studious, seems shy but I think smart. Normally works for an internet company setting up hotel wifi systems. But all the hotels are closed, so she is laid off. Her hobby is photography and she even owns a decent camera..  So today we spent setting up a studio space and me (and what do I know?) explaining about product photography.. Ringo says we can send her on a training course, but actually she was doing good and had an understanding in no time what we wanted.

So we will see how it goes.. 

David