I’m surprised at how everyone is doing so well. It’s good to see. Of course there’s a percentage not doing what they need to but overall everyone seems to be at home.

However if we want to continue socializing; we need to make some short term sacrifices and hold it together awhile longer.

Have faith; courage and patience.

We’ll get through this! Together.

It's about shortages of food and the money to pay for it.

if more people here didn't have the money to buy 500 rolls of toilet paper and 200 bottles of hand sanitizer, that would be a good thing.

The buying of the toiler paper ... Not so much.

The lack of food and money definitely seems like the issue here.

Jonathan Pie set them straight......

I like to think of Anne Frank and how her family was hiding and starving in their cold, cramped attic. Then she was taken to Auschwitz and found a new level of misery that made the attic looked like a faraway dream. I have my little dog, my 500 sq ft apt, a stocked fridge and good health right now (knock wood) and it is sheer heaven. I was in the hospital, very ill and in pain and not knowing why on more than one occasion. Yes, this is heaven right now for me.

Stay home for all those who have no choice and are risking their lives for us.

a few days ago as a reminder to keep things in prospective.

We are hiding from a threat that could kill us. The family had to endure so much uncertainty and fear, and still try to maintain some normalcy. We are so dependent on our government handling this crisis well. tRump is going to kill so many of us. It's so tragic.

working people and small business owners form protest groups and rally, maybe as soon as the end of April. Here in Wisconsin, restaurant dining-in is cancelled, non-essential businesses closed going on twelve days now. I wouldn't be surprised to see protests at the state Capitol on the same level as the anti-Walker rallies back in 2011. People will be itching to get back to work and earn money.

We're all on this ride and really have no control over it other than to avoid catching and spreading the disease no matter how long it takes. I'm sure the various republican politicians will hammer the "grandma's life versus having sit-down service in McDonald's" nonsense and maybe it will "work." I certainly hope not. Some places tried it in 1918 too and, well, it didn't work out very well at all.

attitude from Washington. The longer this goes, the more uncertain people are of their futures. Will I be able to make rent? Will I be able to send my kids to college? How bad are things going to be? People aren’t drones. You can’t just give them orders and expect them to follow them unquestionably. “Well, too bad, deal with it” isn’t acceptable.
I’m lucky that I get to work from home at my normal pay. I’m in a way better position than most people right now. If I was laid off because of this thing, I’d be terrified. And I’d know that $1,300 is nothing whatsoever. It’s peanuts. It’s a crumb. One paycheck of mine.
They are protesting for answers. Give them more than condescension and lectures.

Maybe it might make some people "feel better" but, face it, it's kind of like "rally against the wind" or "rally against the moon." The timing of the closures is up to the virus, not the politicians.

As for the one-time stimulus checks, you're absolutely right. This will be going on for at least a couple more months. Experience in China and South Korea has demonstrated this. It won't be shorter anywhere else just because it's a different country. Our experience will probably be worse because of trump's intentional mishandling of his office, which may further lengthen the time required. In any case, everyone is well aware of the inadequacy of a one-time stimulus and democrats will introduce other bills for monthly payments for at least a while. It may be futile with Moscow Mitch in the way but even he may sing a different tune as the body count in kentucky goes up.

Rallies and protests would do nothing but make more people sick, and possibly even extend the time needed to "flatten the curve" so the country can begin moving toward our new normal.

But I do worry for so many during this time...

Rally against the Governor(s). I don't see this as a Republican/Democratic issue. People furloughed need to work eventually. This can go on only for so long before people start to panic/get anxious//get frustrated/etc. People in rural areas under the same "stay-at-home" order as the urban areas, even thought the rural northern half of the state has relatively few cases. Enough resentment already exists in rural Wisconsin against urban Wisconsin.

"Rural areas" aren't immune to this, you know. They will go through the same thing, just later.

The longer goes, the more anxious furloughed workers will get regarding losing their livelihoods. I was watching the Wisconsin Foodie on television Sunday and he stated as it stands now, 30% of the restaurants will never re-open. The longer it goes, even more businesses are dead. At what point do you determine destroying American families isn't worth it?

I'm aware rural areas have been exposed, but it is no where the same level as the urban areas. Those areas don't have the same population densities, social distancing is already built in. However, the one thing with the rural counties is they don't have the medical capacities.

They will need food, too.

I hope our legislators consider what is happening in this video and make sure that EVERYONE can provide for their families. Who wouldn't steal to get food for a loved one?

I can't believe that every Repug in the senate, and most in the house, would vote to include them.

Imagine facing no income, no money for food or shelter or medicine.

They'll do what they've always done: Go to the jobs that others can't or won't do. Picking in the fields. Working in restaurants and construction. CV19 will spread through their families, and they'll add to the healthcare crisis.

Alternate nightmare scenario: They'll be competing with US citizens for the few remaining jobs, and we'll have 12 million or so homeless, starving undocumented people on the streets of the US. ICE will sweep them up and drop them off at the border.

It's inhuman and just plain stupid to not include them in any relief right now.

They think that as long as we deny them food, housing, and medical care, they will leave. I'll never understand why they can't see them as human beings with value. I would work, and live alongside them over a tRumper any day.

He has been posting his responses and even though I don’t read Italian I do google translations and the situation has really been escalating from his posts. They are pissed and think the government is failing them big time. It has been interesting reading his posts the last two weeks. They are angry and desperate and people are dying in droves in their communities. The one word in the posts that is prevalent is morti (death in Italian).

I admittedly rolled my eyes when everyone was sharing the video of Italians singing from their windows. It was on what day? Day 3 of lockdown? Of course they were still handling it well.

We need treatments and the na vaccine. And the vax needs to be mandatory. Because people will not do this for months.