A bad webcam and a laggy connection has the amazing ability to take a famous face and tear them down to just yet another shmuck in their living room. So day by day an endless procession of shmucks in their living room, giving their "opinions" on the crisis and what they think we should all do, or what they think we all need to do right now. I just don't buy it anymore. In fact I don't buy much anymore - food, baby clothes, bits and bobs I can find online. All the webcam shmucks want everyone "to return to normal as fast as possible" - but I am not sure I want to return to normal. I was never really fond of normal.
One thing is clear: This virus doesn't care if your Boris Johnson or John Doe, Angela Merkel or Plain Jane. So when the talking heads with bad webcams come on the TV on some endless shmuck loop you also start to wonder - why do we care what these people think of the virus?