Keep getting emails from werk reminding us that despite the fact that admin staff, senior management, lecturers and anyone else who can werk from home is welcome to do so, us lab rats are not and we must soldier on because scientific research (ie, the fucking REF) is important.
Also despite the fact that our technical support staff are all winding down operations, so there'll be no way of ordering reagents, no deliveries of dry ice or liquid nitrogen, no staff to do our mass spec and sequencing, no-one to collect and process patient tissue samples etc- if I do manage to get anything done I'll just be adding to a massive backlog when all those technical staff return.
Oh, and there'll be no fucking canteen of course. And they've warned us that they've started emptying all the fridges in staff break rooms, so if I need to eat I'll have to go to one of the shops in the hospital nextdoor which will be full of spluttering coronavirus patients. Fucking marvellous.