Britain Placed Under Virtual Lockdown by Boris Johnson

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Britain Placed Under Virtual Lockdown by Boris Johnson

The prime minister closed all nonessential shops, banning meetings of more than two people and requiring people to say in their homes, except for trips for food or medicine.

LONDON — Facing a growing storm of criticism about his laissez-faire response to the fast-spreading coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday that he would place Britain under a virtual lockdown, closing all nonessential shops, banning meetings of more than two people, and requiring people to say in their homes, except for trips for food or medicine.

People who flout the new restrictions, the prime minister said, will be fined by the police.

The steps, which Mr. Johnson outlined in a televised address to the nation, bring him into alignment with European leaders like President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who have all but quarantined their countries in a desperate bid to slow the outbreak.

“No prime minister wants to enact measures like this,” an ashen-faced Mr. Johnson said. “I know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people’s lives, to their businesses and to their jobs.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/world/europe/coronavirus-uk-boris-johnson.html

Next up, trump announces it's back to magical work in April.

[CatMor]

1. I'm happy to hear this...

.my daughter lives in England and works in London. She has to take the trains to get to work all packed in with people coughing and sputtering. She is very upset that her company won't halt work so now maybe they will. I'm so worried about her.

[Roland99]

2. Yeah....bu BoJo is his "type". This might give twitler the feeling that he now has political clout

to go ahead and do it.

Two GOP Governors already have.