Rome burns while Nero fiddles?

Fact check, Romans played lyres, but there is still a pun in there anyway.

What worries me, is the old adage "When America sneezes, the world catches a cold" - and in the UK we have some pretty mendacious excrescences of our own. Mind you they are spreading the virus, not fueling fires in cities.

(I typed cites, should have left it at that - maybe)./small>