Coronavirus U-turns! Calm down everyone

It took precisely 48 hours for Donald Trump to change his mind and do a U-turn on Brits and Irish being allowed to fly to the US anytime they liked. It always looked odd to say the least that Trump made an exception of the US and Ireland when he stopped all flights from the European mainland to the US. His reasoning, in the case of the UK, was that Boris was doing a fine job in taking measures to counter coronavirus. Well, that may or may not be true but it still doesn't explain why Brits should therefore be able to flock to the US. We've got as much coronavirus here as anywhere else, and it's growing every day. What will British Airways do? As a user of British Airways I got an email which said that if I had booked any flight to anywhere I could get a refund or a voucher and please dont worry, you will be looked after. But there was a bit of small print which ruined that nice gesture. It only covered customers who booked a flight AFTER March 3. So anyone who planned a trip or a holiday to the US on March 2 will get no nice refund. I'm truly sorry for all airlines because they are having a nightmare but the customers should come first. Anyway we are all at the mercy of political leaders who change their minds from day to day. Boris by all accounts, having said that large assemblies of people can still go ahead, has now been forced to admit the reality of the situation. which is that, Whether it's medically sound or not, major gatherings like football matches and pop shows are being cancelled left right and centre. So next week he is due to announce that any gathering of more than 500 people will be banned. I'm beginning to think that this is becoming a Hollywood horror film blockbuster, like The Day The World Came To An End or whatever. Everyone is walking around looking as if an atomic bomb is about to explode above their heads. And everyone is looking suspiciously at everyone else. But it's not like the Bubonic Plague, it's not like "Bring out your dead". Is it? But every political leader is thinking worst-case scenario and going for the option that basically brings normal life to a halt. All this energy and money going into curbing this virus, yet the dire warnings from scientists and environmentalists that the world is heating up so fast we could all be shrivelled up in 30-50 years seems to attract just a shrug of the shoulders in some notable cases. Trump still doesn't believe it, China carries on burning coal in a million power plants, India is busy turning itself into a first world economy, Brazil is destroying the rain forest, and cows are filling the air with methane gas. The worst thing, apart from the dying of course, is that coronavirus has turned a huge number of people into quivering panicking wrecks. Like the world is coming to an end (see above). Calm down everyone, for goodness sake calm down.