I'm a hairstylist and this dumb broad wants a haircut during these times? I would shave it all off.

You DO realize that this is also a very, very "small minority" of Americans that you are seeing here as well, right? This looks like a lot...but don't forget we have over 330 million people in our country...this is not even .001% of our population. Yes, we CAN cope and have been coping..the vast, VAST majority of us...just as in the UK.

With all due respect, but Boris Johnson was even boasting that he was shaking hands left and right when he visited a hospital with corona patients. Before he was hospitalised with it himself, that is. He stuck to the way his buddy Trump was reacting, or, rather, not reacting for way too long.

Boris Johnson is an elitist buffoon who thought Covid 19 would only be a problem for the plebs. He wasn't even bothering to attend many of the meetings about it. Fortunately, the UK isn't wavering over the need to continue lockdown.

@Aria, I do understand we are talking a small minority but the PR they are getting could lead to a larger and out of control problem.

Thank you. We're scared too. We have a president who just suggested injecting people with disinfectant, like he's a doctor.

For the record half of us didn't want The Big Orange as president

In our defense, We didn't choose him. The electoral college, a tiny group of people, ignored the majority vote and placed him in power. Our VOTES actually went to the other candidates.

But what if there is no one to choose from...look around the Europe...especially Eastern Europe. No respectable person wants to be politician. And if there is one, the PR and marketing (money) is winning because stupid people are majority in every nation/country...same with America. Unfortunately....we had two candidates for president and it was 51:49 for old sick man with a bunch of mobsters behind his back...

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Perhaps you should stop appropriating a European language and communicate using Nahuatl or whatever. You should probably stop using powered transportation (and even wheels and horses), electricity, modern medicine and surgical techniques, and long-distance communication. Have fun grinding your food with stones and going to war seasonally as a method for population control and obtaining sacrifices for your feathered gods.

The economy will be "destroyed" regardless. If you send people back to work early and cause a huge spike in cases and deaths then the economy will crater any way. The road to recovery will be much longer and more people will have died. At some point you have to recognize this.

A wee little history lesson: "The Black Death, also known as the Pestilence and the Plague, was the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, resulting in the deaths of up to 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. ... It took 200 years for Europe's population to recover to its previous level." No, I am not saying that I believe Covid-19 to be as deadly as the Great Plague, but I think it OK to socal distance a bit longer, with all the scientists working on finding a cure and.or a vaccine.

thank you Leo, for helping your fellow human beings

As an ACTUAL healthcare worker...I call BS!!! EVERYONE in our field are LIVID with these people because they are making our jobs SO much harder!! No health care worker, who is on the FRONT LINE and seen what this disease can do would ever say the "shutdown has gone overboard". You are either LYING or the dumbest healthcare worker in the country.

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