Can I, a coronavirus 'shielder', find consolation in lockdown? | John Sutherland

As I reflect on the deaths of earlier Sutherlands, and the writers I’ve written books about, I find myself thinking of ProsperoCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNational hibernation the man called it. A refreshing winter snooze. For me what came to mind was not bears in the woods but imprisonment. “Lockdown” is jail jargon and it fitted.It was a version of the 19th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s theory that incarceration should be iso