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Demovictory9's JournalFewer than half of working Americans will have a paycheck in May
Fewer than half of working Americans will have a paycheck in May as devastating coronavirus layoffs persist, economist says
https://www.businessinsider.com/layoffs-coronavirus-less-than-half-american-workers-paycheck-wage-may-2020-4
The millions of Americans who have lost their jobs in recent weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic will have a devastating effects on the economy going forward as workers are left without pay.
Losses in April alone could push the unemployment rate to 16%, according to James Knightley, chief international economist at ING. If another 10 million Americans file jobless claims in May, that would push the unemployment rate to 22%, he said.
"Thankfully this is below the 24.9% peak experienced in 1933, but we have to remember that one third of Americans aged 18-65 are not classified as employed or unemployed – they are students, early retirement, homemakers, carers or sick," Knightly wrote in a Thursday note.
"This leads us to yet another sobering statistic – that less than half of working age Americans will be earning a wage next month," he said.
An Argument Launched Canada's Deadliest Mass Shooting
Canada’s worst mass shooting erupted from an argument between the gunman and his girlfriend, who survived the attack, a police official said. The official confirmed to the AP late Thursday that the weekend shooting rampage in Nova Scotia stemmed from a domestic dispute involving the couple. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said more details would be provided at a news conference Friday. Police have said the 51-year-old gunman acted alone in the shooting spree that killed at least 22 people across northern and central Nova Scotia. There are 16 crime scenes in five different rural communities throughout northern and central Nova Scotia. The suspect was shot to death Sunday morning, about 13 hours after the attacks began.
Several bodies were found inside and outside one house in the rural town of Portapique, where the gunman lived part time, police have said. Bodies were also found in four other communities, and authorities believe the shooter targeted his first victims but then began attacking randomly as he drove around. He shot people in and around their homes and set fire to homes, all while impersonating a police officer. CTV News and the CBC report that the rampage began Saturday night with the suspect confronting a woman with whom he was in a long-term relationship, assaulting her, and handcuffing her. She managed to flee and hide in the woods nearby, at which point the suspect started his shooting spree. It was the badly beaten woman who alerted police to the fact that the suspect was driving a fake police car.
https://www.newser.com/story/290006/an-argument-launched-canadas-deadliest-mass-shooting.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
Rudy Giuliani mocks contact tracing by asking why we don't also do it for cancer, obesity and heart
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1253516500209741825"I'm the president and you're fake news"
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1253455713034211328Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
"I'm the president and you're fake news" -- Trump to
@PhilipRucker
after he asks him if it's responsible to make all sorts of wacky and unproven suggestions about possible coronavirus treatments
powerful video
WARNING! This is a graphic video that illustrates the crimes against humanity by
@POTUS
& his criminal Adminis. Families have been devastated & Trump continues to lie & lie & ignore medical experts so he can protect his malignant Presidency #CoronaDon #TrumpLiesAmericansDie
https://twitter.com/ForthepeopleF/status/1252059982696087553
tweet of the afternoon
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1253449318830182400Eugene Gu, MD
@eugenegu
PLEASE do not inject anything into your body or ingest anything at all to kill the coronavirus. There is NO SUBSTANCE that will disinfect your body of the coronavirus from the inside. Don’t inject or drink bleach, soap, don’t do isopropyl alcohol, lysol, or ANYTHING WHATSOEVER.
Trump - binge TV from 5am to noon - angry even w/ Fox, worried about extent history will blame him
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.htmlHome Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion
As his administration grapples with reopening the economy and responding to the coronavirus crisis, President Trump worries about his re-election and how the news media is portraying him.
WASHINGTON — President Trump arrives in the Oval Office these days as late as noon, when he is usually in a sour mood after his morning marathon of television.
He has been up in the White House master bedroom as early as 5 a.m. watching Fox News, then CNN, with a dollop of MSNBC thrown in for rage viewing. He makes calls with the TV on in the background, his routine since he first arrived at the White House.
But now there are differences.
The president sees few allies no matter which channel he clicks. He is angry even with Fox, an old security blanket, for not portraying him as he would like to be seen. And he makes time to watch Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s briefings from New York, closely monitoring for a sporadic compliment or snipe.
Confined to the White House, the president is isolated from the supporters, visitors, travel and golf that once entertained him, according to more than a dozen administration officials and close advisers who spoke about Mr. Trump’s strange new life. He is tested weekly, as is Vice President Mike Pence, for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
The economy — Mr. Trump’s main case for re-election — has imploded. News coverage of his handling of the coronavirus has been overwhelmingly negative as Democrats have condemned him for a lack of empathy, honesty and competence in the face of a pandemic. Even Republicans have criticized Mr. Trump’s briefings as long-winded and his rough handling of critics as unproductive.
His own internal polling shows him sliding in some swing states, a major reason he declared a temporary halt to the issuance of green cards to those outside the United States. The executive order — watered down with loopholes after an uproar from business groups — was aimed at pleasing his political base, people close to him said, and was the kind of move Mr. Trump makes when things feel out of control. Friends who have spoken to him said he seemed unsettled and worried about losing the election.
But the president’s primary focus, advisers said, is assessing how his performance on the virus is measured in the news media, and the extent to which history will blame him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html
Coughing and spluttering Trump ally Jim Jordan is slammed for REFUSING to wear a mask as House vote
lead article on dailymail. LOL 
The last days of Cirque du Soleil: How COVID-19 brought down an entertainment empire
https://www.fastcompany.com/90489970/the-last-days-of-cirque-du-soleil-how-covid-19-brought-down-an-entertainment-empireThe last days of Cirque du Soleil: How COVID-19 brought down an entertainment empire
The global circus brand remains optimistic that it will reopen once the pandemic ends. It may not be the same company by then.
The slow-motion shutdown of Cirque du Soleil should have been an early warning of the disaster to come. The novel coronavirus was still considered a local problem in late January, when the world’s largest circus producer canceled performances of The Land of Fantasy, its first and only permanent offering in China. Within two months, the virus had spread to every corner of the world.
“Everything was going very well,” recalls Diane Quinn, Cirque’s chief creative officer, who had visited the show in Hangzhou, near the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan, just a few weeks earlier.
The abrupt cancellation of The Land of Fantasy was a serious blow to profits, but a manageable one. Cirque still had 43 other shows around the world. COVID-19 would not have an official name for a few more weeks, and even as late as early March, the idea that it could grind the entire world to a halt seemed unimaginable.
An outbreak in Italy was an inflection point for the company. Cirque had a show set to open in Rome—its tent was already erected and tickets were being sold—when the event’s promoter called it off. The show would have gone on to Milan, but that would clearly be impossible after the Italian government locked down the country on March 9.
One by one, the dominos fell—more cancellations, more travel restrictions, more bad news. “As the virus spread across Europe and ultimately into North America, we realized, boy, we’re going to have a problem on our hands,” Quinn says.
Las Vegas, which accounted for some 35% of Cirque’s revenue and is the company’s most important market, was the final straw. On March 14, CEO Daniel Lamarre received a call from MGM Entertainment in Las Vegas, informing him that all of the city’s casinos and other tourist destinations would be shut down.
“I woke up the day after, Sunday morning, and I had no more shows, no more revenue,” Lamarre says. The world had come to a halt, and Cirque du Soleil with it. For the first time in 35 years, the show wouldn’t go on.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90489970/the-last-days-of-cirque-du-soleil-how-covid-19-brought-down-an-entertainment-empire
John Oliver on Fox news: "They only pretend to believe these things on television for money."
HBO's John Oliver dedicated his entire 21-minute show on Sunday night to a deep dive into false information being peddled by Fox News and other conservative media outlets about the coronavirus, and the impacts those falsehoods are having on President Donald Trump and his decision-making.
It's a stunning exposé into, as Oliver puts it, how "the feedback loop between Fox and Trump has run way ahead of the science." (You can -- and should -- watch the whole segment here.)
But there was one thing -- actually one sentence of 11 words -- that really stood out to me in the Oliver segment. And it was this, when he was talking about Fox News' coronavirus coverage:
"They only pretend to believe these things on television for money."
The point Oliver was making was that even as many Fox News anchors were pushing the idea that coronavirus was less virulent than the flu and that it was the product of a hyper-partisan media trying to "get" Trump, the company was warning its employees to stay at home and "reducing the staff footprint at our headquarters in New York."
Why the contrast between what their anchors were pushing and the internal guidance being given to staff? Because, as Oliver rightly notes, Fox News is in the business of selling a certain kind of news to its largely conservative (and very large) viewer base. And that "news" is generally speaking, centered around the idea that the mainstream media is in cahoots with Democrats to screw, frighten and otherwise mistreat the average Joe and Jane out there
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/politics/john-oliver-fox-news-coronavirus/index.html
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