On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:44:31 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 23/03/2020 11:35, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> Another thing too - the US appear to be the worst prepared for COVID of
>> any country, largely because they waited longer than anybody before
>> starting to get their act together. Now add in the way Americans are
>> reacting: beach parties, using corpses for sculpture, stocking up on
>> guns+ammo as well as bogrolls and generally refusing to accept any
>> restriction on movement. All this makes it almost a dead cert that they
>> will have the biggest disaster of the lot.
>
> Evidence for this? My friend in Santa Cruz has been locked down by
> edict: here in East Anglia its all still voluntary.

Mainly talk on rec.aviation.soaring - normally quite peaceful and
sensible talk about flying, but some of the USAians on it are upset about
what they see as governmental interference with their constitutional
right to do whatever they damn well like wherever they like. A direct
quote:

"If you stay home the virus wins.  Curfews are the funniest bit, does the
virus only hunt at night?"


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