To feel scared and embarrassed to live in the U.K. right now?

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We have a PM who is an arrogant muppet who really only cares about himself and doesn’t give a toss about anyone else.

Wes don’t have respirators, oxygen, or even basic medical equipment. The government knew this and should have started doing something two months ago when it all kicked off.

How is hand washing going to help my daughter who has to get a crowded bus to school, with people coughing and sneezing into her face.

The flue 😂

Making this about politics is pointless. When people voted they voted based on the current affairs. This was not on the agenda.

You could flip it the other way and say that if Corbyn got in and then a world war broke in a couple of months we would be in an even worse situation. where he replaces all bullets with love hearts and tells the soldiers to use their words not violence!

Result of electing a populist government. UK has been an international laughing stock since 2016. Now things have got serious.

Re the 500000 deaths -the idea is that the 60-80% that catch the virus aren’t the susceptible ones, so the death rate shouldn’t be anywhere like as high as 1%.

Flu an illness that has one tenth of the mortality of COVID 19

Influenza is that illness. If you want to be pedantic about correct terminology, spell with an apostrophe to show the abbreviation: 'flu.

Swine flu could kill 65,000 in UK, warns chief medical officer

Headline news in July 2009.

The true figure was 457.

Enjoy your hysteria as you've nothing else in your lives to do.

Oh, yes, Corbyn would have been so much better in a crisis - he who was so firmly decisive about Brexit.

Er.....

Is that seriously your contribution to this debate 🙄

Lightnesspixie.

The Black Death killed a third of the population of England and Wales in 9 months. In Derbyshire all the villages were ravaged by the Black Death except 1 village that forcibly self isolated. No one caught the Black Death or died. When things died down and they started mixing with other villages and the local town again, the Black Death did not re emerge. Everyone in that village lived.

Are you thinking of Eyam? If so you have it the wrong way round - they got the plague and self-isolated so they would not spread it to surrounding villagers. 260 of them died.

The Black Death killed a third of the population of England and Wales in 9 months. In Derbyshire all the villages were ravaged by the Black Death except 1 village that forcibly self isolated. No one caught the Black Death or died. When things died down and they started mixing with other villages and the local town again, the Black Death did not re emerge. Everyone in that village lived.

Well yes but that's not because they knew what caused it.

In the days of the black death, the Jews were driven out of a few places because they caught it less.

Why? Because of their ritual washing practices. That's right, they bothered to clean themselves. But people thought they had inflicted it on others and done it deliberately.

This isn't the black death and the ramifications aren't the same. Locking half the country down makes me think it wouldn't be so deleterious. As long as the hysterical ones on here go first into hiding.

Just when I thought my country (the U.S.) had come up with the most amazingly stupid way possible to handle COVID-19, Boris Johnson comes along to say, "Hold my beer."

Just when I thought my country (the U.S.) had come up with the most amazingly stupid way possible to handle COVID-19, Boris Johnson comes along to say, "Hold my beer."

Odd to think that these Two heros hold the Nuclear launch keys;(!!!!!

I'd have been embarrassed from the Brexit vote.

Still the same people mucking it up at the top.

Well thats democratcy like it ot not!

Meanwhile i see that Mr Putin is making it possibile to stay in power untill he 's well waay beyond retirment age shall we say!.

I realise other people have picked up on the story of the plague village, Eyam, but I feel I owe it to the many people who died or lost loved ones to point out that they didn't isolate themselves to avoid the plague, but to save others from it. It's quite a sobering place to visit, with many plaques up outside cottages describing the people who died.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35064071

55 dead in the UK. It is very scary.