I'm in the UK (a town in the North East, called Middlesbrough)
Things in the UK are a little bit more relaxed (despite the lockdown) People are allowed out to either exercise or get food shopping. Although the queues for the supermarkets are quite long at the moment (as they are only letting several people in at one time, as a 'one out, one in' deal) plus monitoring that everyone keep a 2 meter distance from one another.
In the first week leading up to the lockdown.....a fair portion of the UK went crazy and started panic-buying essentials (Hand-Sanitiser, Bread, Dry Pasta and toilet paper, were sold out in minutes) And although stocks are OK in the shops now (this has resulted in a lot of stores, now putting limits on how much of one item you can buy at one time)
Our Prime Minister (Boris Johnson) has just gotten out of hospital, having suffered (and thankfully beaten) the virus himself. There's lots of talk and rumours (usually from the fearmongering press) of Policemen roaming supermarkets, and checking peoples shopping baskets for 'non-essential' items.....but the government seem to be saying one thing...and the police another. This lockdown will likely last another month in the UK (I reckon?) as I think we're trying to learn from the 'Italian' statistics (apparently Italy's shops re-open today) so I assume that they think they're over the worst of it. The Uk hasn't reached it's peak yet...but I think the numbers are slightly down today, than were they were Sunday (with over 1000 fatalies that day alone)
As it stands, I'm only venturing out twice a week for food shopping (and the more-than-occasional bottle of wine...or three)
But I think the media over here are doing better job of scaring people to death quicker than any virus could. The death toll in the UK has reached just over 11,000 (but with 85, 000 cases of infection) and to be fair, the UK itself can have up 17,000 deaths from the common flu (per year)
Plus I've noticed a lot of changing terminology in the medias reporting of fatalities over the last seven days? They've now started referring to Covid 19 deaths as 'Covid 19 related' (make of that what you will?)
Anyhow (my therories asside) I hope everyone is OK and keeping safe? I'm missing my local pub, more than work