Here’s what you should be watching today:
Donald Trump urges Congress to pass his aid package. The US president is pitching measures that could cost $1 trillion—more than the $700 billion spent in 2008, and the $800 billion in 2009. Congress will first vote on a package containing sick pay and free testing, then discuss the financial aid.
The New York mayor considers a lockdown. Bill de Blasio might order 8.5 million people to stay at home, leaving only for essentials, as the virus reaches all 50 US states. Similar lockdowns have been applied in entire countries.
France presents its financial aid package. The government is expected to announce €8.5 billion in pay for workers and delay tax collection at a cost of €32 billion, among other measures. This follows even larger packages elsewhere—Spain’s is worth 20% of its GDP, the UK’s 15%.
Olympic organizers said “no solution will be ideal.” They are still hoping that the Tokyo games go ahead, but responded to accusations that they are putting athletes “in danger”. The world’s biggest multi-sport event is scheduled to begin on July 24.
European stocks fell across all sectors—except one. Almost everything dropped in Europe this morning, with travel firms faring the worst. An index reflecting 600 European stocks fell 3%. The telecom sector was the only one that didn’t recede, as people in lockdown caused data and voice traffic to spike across the continent.
California ordered Tesla to shut its Fremont factory. The electric carmaker kept its plant running on Tuesday in defiance of San Francisco’s lockdown measures, with Elon Musk saying he’d personally be at work, but county officials said the company is not exempt and isn’t an essential business.
New research indicated just how contagious coronavirus can be. A study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US says the virus can remain infectious for three hours as droplets in the air, and on plastic surfaces for at least three days.
Joe Biden won three more primaries. Voters in Florida, Illinois, and Arizona chose the former veep to face Donald Trump in the presidential election, increasing the pressure on Bernie Sanders to abandon the race.
WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON SELF-ISOLATING?
Don’t look now but for a nation that was already implementing social distancing policies with the rise of platforms that have stopped human interaction is now spreading across the world at a record’s pace.
Governments are directing its people that they shouldn’t socialize, travel, work, or learn together until the coronavirus is under better control.
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Let’s be serious. The message to self-isolate conflicts the rules of our living. How can one partner isolate from another, and is it even realistic to try? How can we isolate when we have kids? Our communities? Our neighborhoods? And, perhaps most crucially, is it possible to self-isolate from vulnerable people even if we live with them?
As the human race, we have to build links to work out solutions and to be honest, it’s one of the better ways of beating any attacks by enemies that want us separated.
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This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on March 18, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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