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NYC Mass Transit Ridership Plummets As Biking Surges During Coronavirus Outbreak

A mostly empty subway train in NYC on Friday, March 13th 2020.

Despite the decline, the MTA expects to run regular service, along with regular sanitizing of all train cars, buses, stations and surfaces. [ more › ]

I’ve been sick for three days with a confirmed bout of the flu. Luckily, Tamiflu has been helping. I…

I’ve been sick for three days with a confirmed bout of the flu. Luckily, Tamiflu has been helping. I have paid time off I can use, access to healthcare, and childcare. I’ll go back to work tomorrow. These things should be available to everyone, but instead are viewed as a privilege or luck and not a guaranteed right.

I don’t have Coronavirus but if I did, I’d probably be ok and would maybe be able to weather the 14 day quarantine. But how many others couldn’t? How many will push through, thinking it’s just a bad cold? How many will think, I CAN’T miss one paycheck and CAN’T afford the test or treatment, so I’ll just deal? Are we comfortable with those numbers above zero?

I’m not.

The senate just declined to hear a bill that would guarantee sick time, treatment coverage, etc. because Sen. McConnell said they’ll have a better idea after an 11 day recess of what we’re dealing with, so they’ll address it then.

We don’t HAVE 11 days to wait if epidemiologists are correct. By that point, we’ll likely be looking like Italy. But we will never know the full scope because we’re under testing, under-reacting, and the cases that will present for hospitalization are the most critical, meaning those for whom it presents mildly will still be coughing on our food, our public spaces, our grandparents, our children, etc., often for no other reason than they can’t afford to stay home. They don’t have childcare. They don’t have paid time off. They have no insurance or insurance with high deductibles and copays they can’t afford.

So now we wait, hoard supplies, wash our hands, and hope we’ll be okay. Meanwhile, Prince Prospero and his aristocrats ignore the skulking masked figure moving silently from city to city, only confronting it once it’s too late. We are only as safe as our most vulnerable, and I hope in several weeks you’re all mocking me as being overly anxious instead of woefully correct.

Jack Ma Offers to Supply the US With Covid-19 Tests and Masks | WIRED

Jack Ma Offers to Supply the US With Covid-19 Tests and Masks | WIRED: As the US government promises to ramp up more Covid-19 testing, an unlikely billionaire is offering to lend his help: Jack Ma, cofounder of the Chinese tech giant Alibaba. Ma’s philanthropic organization, the Jack Ma Foundation, said early Friday morning it would donate 500,000 Covid-19 testing kits and 1 million protective face masks to the US. The action comes after US health authorities have struggled for weeks to test people for the new coronavirus, falling far behind testing rates in other developed countries like Italy and South Korea.

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Jack Ma Offers to Supply the US With Covid-19 Tests and Masks | WIRED

As the US government promises to ramp up more Covid-19 testing, an unlikely billionaire is offering to lend his help: Jack Ma, cofounder of the Chinese tech giant Alibaba. Ma’s philanthropic organization, the Jack Ma Foundation, said early Friday morning it would donate 500,000 Covid-19 testing kits and 1 million protective face masks to the US. The action comes after US health authorities have struggled for weeks to test people for the new coronavirus, falling far behind testing rates in other developed countries like Italy and South Korea.

Source: Jack Ma Offers to Supply the US With Covid-19 Tests and Masks | WIRED

Trump had almost no interactions with Brazilian official with coronavirus: White House

There are numerous photos and videos showing them shoulder to shoulder. Not a good liar.

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had “almost no interaction” with a Brazilian government official they met in Florida last week who later tested positive for coronavirus and do not need to be tested, the White House said on Thursday.

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