“…the government’s own estimates show big costs, too — more Americans dying from air pollution, more climate-damaging tailpipe exhaust and more expense for drivers at the gas pumps.”
Category: Current Events
“More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week earlier — a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
“Combined with last week’s report that 3.3 million people sought unemployment aid two weeks ago, the U.S. economy has now suffered nearly 10 million layoffs in just the past few weeks — far exceeding the figure for any corresponding period on record.”
“Further signs of a surging wave of layoffs are likely in the coming weeks.”
“The magnitude of the layoffs has led many economists to envision as many as 20 million lost jobs by the end of April. That would be more than double the 8.7 million jobs lost during the Great Recession. The unemployment rate could spike to as high as 15% this month, above the previous record of 10.8% set during a deep recession in 1982.”
“Roughly 90% of the U.S. population is now under stay-at-home orders, which have been imposed by most U.S. states.”
“The reversal in the job market has been dizzying. Four weeks ago, weekly unemployment claims amounted to only 211,000, near a 50-year low. Since then, they have jumped 30-fold.”
Categories
A president unfit for a pandemic
“Much of the suffering and death coming was preventable. The president has blood on his hands.”
“As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, it’s worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership.”
(https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opinion/president-unfit-pandemic/)
Screening thousands of drugs, Stanford scientists determined that in mice, azlocillin, an antibiotic approved by the Food and Drug Administration, eliminated the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Source (https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/potential-treatment-for-lingering-lyme-disease.html)
“This thread shows clearly and definitively that Trump knew a pandemic was coming, knew the US was unprepared for it, and left the US helpless to contain or combat the virus.”
(https://twitter.com/blakesmustache/status/1244586703475691521)
Categories
Trump on what to call coronavirus
“…this pandemic, by this disease. This whatever they want to call it. You call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different names. I’m not sure anybody even knows what it is…”
(Trump on Friday March 27th at the Coronavirus Task Force briefing)
(https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4864480/user-clip-call-germ)
Categories
danelabonte 