[theredbox]

You are not crazy you are simply overreacting like a typical american.

[dang]

Please keep nationalistic flamebait off this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[phailhaus]

> Meanwhile Mecca is shut down, Italy instituted a Nationwide lockdown overnight, UK hospitals are running out of capacity, China shut down it's entire industry for two months

Those countries are not American. They are reacting reasonably to a virus that has 20x the mortality rate of the flu, with no known vaccine.

[watwut]

Italy is reacting to overflown hospitals unable to deal with crises.