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Universities are all on-line now. I think that is progress; I earn better grades when I do not have classmates to distract me, but I would still rather work with my classmates, network and stuff.

Grad school should be completely different, though. Everyone there is supposedly working hard to earn As.

I see automation to get a boost, too, since robots shouldn't get sick or get anyone sick.

Kevin says that we need paid sick leave so that people do not work while sick and get other people sick.

He said that we shouldn't have another recession like 2008 because we don't have the toxic debt that was common then.

He said that we should not be charged interest for 60 to 90 days to help us make ends meet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXOD...em-uploademail

Based on C.D.C. data:

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic

2.4 million to 21 million people in the United States could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds.

200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

Mom keeps saying that Germany developed a test and is sharing it, but the U.S. insists on making our own.

So, what have they been using?

I cannot find any sources about this, so I do not have any idea how true it is. People have been tested, so...

“The woman who I talked to said, ‘There aren’t any cases here [in Travis County],’” she told us. “And I said, ‘There hasn’t been any testing, so how do you know?’”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...umbers/607714/

Fourteen districts in Arizona are closed, (out of more than two hundred) despite the Superintendent of Public Instruction keeps saying there is not any reason to close schools yet.

I enjoy my jobs and want to work, but I do not want to get sick, nor do I want any kids getting sick, but how the heck am I supposed to pay my bills?!

No, I do not have an emergency fund. I have been trying to get more work so I could start one.


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

That site also says that so far there has only been a 7% mortality rate on closed cases.

According to this, coronavirus causes COVID-19.

We also know the World Health Organization had working tests that the United States refused, and researchers at a project in Seattle tried to conduct early tests for the coronavirus but were prevented from doing so by federal officials. (Doctors at the research project eventually decided to perform coronavirus tests without federal approval.)

The Trump administration dismantled the National Security Council’s global-health office, whose purpose was to address global pandemics

[Turnip] claimed that a vaccine would be available in months; [Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] says [a vaccine] will not be available for a year or more.

Trump admitted that his preference was to keep a cruise ship off the California coast rather than allowing it to dock, because he wanted to keep the number of reported cases of the coronavirus artificially low.

Even severe flu seasons stress the nation’s hospitals to the point of setting up tents in parking lots and keeping people for days in emergency rooms. Coronavirus is likely to cause five to 10 times that burden of disease, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious diseases specialist and public health expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Hospitals “need to start working now,” he said, “to get prepared to take care of a heck of a lot of people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/u...-estimate.html

In October [1918] Dr. Rupert Blue, America’s surgeon general, urged local authorities to “close all public gathering places if their community is threatened with the epidemic,” such as schools, churches, and theaters. “There is no way to put a nationwide closing order into effect,” he wrote, “as this is a matter which is up to the individual communities.”

The mayor of St. Louis quickly took that advice, closing for several weeks “theaters, moving picture shows, schools, pool and billiard halls, Sunday schools, cabarets, lodges, societies, public funerals, open air meetings, dance halls and conventions until further notice.” The death rate rose, but stayed relatively flat over that autumn.

Close all "Gentlemen's clubs!"

By contrast, Philadelphia took none of those measures; the epidemic there had started before Dr. Blue’s warning. Its death rate skyrocketed.