American life in practical standstill amid
coronavirus pandemic
Posted By: earlybird, 3/15/2020 1:07:38 PM
The surge of coronavirus cases throughout the United States and around the world has brought countries to a practical standstill. While countries like Italy, Spain and China have declared complete lockdowns in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, life in the United States also has dramatically changed in just a week. From work to entertainment to even worship, several aspects of American life have been reordered as health officials encourage the public to carry out "social distancing" to prevent the spread of the infection.“The less public gatherings we have now the better. It’s a new virus. We don’t have immunity to it. We don’t have a vaccine
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America In a New Upside-Down World
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The world is changing at a pace not seen in years, and it is no time to become captives of fear despite the real and immediate dangers we face.
The coronavirus and the ensuing panic, at least for a few more weeks, have stagnated the economy and scared global financial markets, accompanied by both collateral, and independent and simultaneous, bad news. Rumor- and panic-mongers predominate; the rational and reasonable are written-off as naïve and out of it. Thousands may die, but millions who will not are terrified into anxieties and sleeplessness that they will.COVID-19 itself has raised fundamental questions about the merits of globalization in general,
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One year ago, BBC reported, "Italy joins China's New Silk Road project."
The project was Red China bailing out Italy financially when the European Union would not. German bankers could not. Red China with a billion-dollar-a-day trade surplus from the USA could.
Uganda and Tanzania are among the other nations that have become clients of Red China.(Snip)"At the heart of concerns is that the BRI is seen as a way for China to spread its geopolitical influence — an acute concern for a Europe increasingly uncertain of its place
The surge of coronavirus cases throughout the United States and around the world has brought countries to a practical standstill.
While countries like Italy, Spain and China have declared complete lockdowns in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, life in the United States also has dramatically changed in just a week.
From work to entertainment to even worship, several aspects of American life have been reordered as health officials encourage the public to carry out "social distancing" to prevent the spread of the infection.“The less public gatherings we have now the better. It’s a new virus. We don’t have immunity to it. We don’t have a vaccine
Canada Ratifies USMCA Trade Agreement…
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Yikes.
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I mean besides get in the way. Created in 2015, the office never handled a pandemic.
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