From Katie Couric’s Wake Up Call
No news is good news? These German Big Brother contestants still have no idea that the coronavirus exists.
After the Ebola crisis, Bill Gates warned in a 2015 Ted Talk: “The next outbreak? We’re not ready.”
From The New York Times
Yesterday brought dizzying changes to life in New York City, as the abrupt decision to close the city’s public schools began taking effect.
The restaurant and nightlife industries were also shut to customers last night. And with that, a city whose lifeblood was its thousands of bars and eateries — from steakhouses to neighborhood bars — was bereft of them.
From Axios
The coronavirus pandemic is a disaster with no modern parallels, with no escape and no safe harbor, Axios Future correspondent Bryan Walsh writes.
• The big picture: Even the worst calamities — from natural disasters to terrorist attacks — have happened in one place, at one time.
• But the truly global catastrophe of the coronavirus will touch everyone, everywhere, for a long time.
The big picture: The U.S., the world’s biggest economy, is likely to have a recession this year and the #2 economy, China, has already undergone a significant slowdown.
From Quartz
Amazon said Monday that it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online.
The UK is taking a very different approach. Prime minister Boris Johnson is gambling all that is good about universal coverage to help build herd immunity. One expert called it “worrying and possibly reckless.”
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