Mandatory lockdown - coming soon to us all?

This is freaking nuts...

France has imposed a near-total lockdown and the EU is to ban foreigners entering the bloc for 30 days as governments adopted measures rarely seen outside wartime in a draconian effort to curb the rapid spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

“We are at war – a public health war, certainly but we are at war, against an invisible and elusive enemy,” Macron said, outlawing all journeys outside the home unless justified for essential professional or health reasons. Anyone flouting the new regulations would be punished, he said.

“There can be no more outside meetings, no more seeing family or friends on the street or in the park,” he said. “We must slow the spread of this virus by limiting the number of people we are in contact with each day to the strict minimum. If we do not, we endanger the lives of those we hold dear.”

He pledged to help both the French economy – with a €300bn (£273bn) package, saying “not a single firm will go bankrupt” – and French households, promising that all gas, electricity and heating bills and rents would be suspended throughout the crisis.

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