The government has closed the state, officially not completely, but in practice there are no meetings, no conferences, everything goes into standby.
Fortunately for me in 158 BC, there was no Corona, and this is the year I write about as part of the third book of the Lions of Judea series. And when I say writing, you have to understand, it is actually living at that time.
So I am living a double life these days: once in the delusional reality of the year 2020 in which a primitive virus disables the advanced world with the global economy and every real or fake news spreads through digital media in seconds to all of humanity, and then as I write, or think, about my characters, I move to live in a historical fiction of 2,200 years ago, where humanity was almost devoid of technology, yet still the East was in struggle against the West, and people were not much different from us today.