But among Labour's significant minority of rural MPs opinion appears to be hardening in favour of May. Diane Organ, whose Forest of Dean constituency now has 13 cases, said it must go ahead. Farming and tourism are both really feeling it. There is a powerful emotional feeling that this is some kind of plague, a sort of medieval curse. But there is also a recognition that life does go on. People are still going to work and going to school.
Elections are part of ordinary life.
The crisis is now inextricably tangled with party politics.