The United States is facing a political and economic challenge like nothing it has seen in nearly 100 years.
Mass unemployment on a scale not seen since the Great Depression has erased the economic gains of the past decade and now threatens to linger for years, fueling social discord and shaking an already polarized political system.
Almost overnight, it seems, the U.S. economy, which just two months ago boasted abundant jobs and soaring stock values, has become a shambles. Not since the government began collecting official data in 1948 has a smaller share of the U.S. population been employed.
. President Trump meets with Republican lawmakers in the State Dining Room of the White House on Friday, May 8. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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This is very eerie. I saw another email that said after the first round of influenza in 1918, people started mingling too soon. That caused a second round that killed something like 3 times more people. As someone once said, we should learn from history or be doomed to repeat it.
There really isn’t anything new under the sun.
Be safe.
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From Politifact:
Flag-waving, honking protesters drove past the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday to show their displeasure with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s orders to keep people at home and businesses locked during the new coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. (AP)
The numbers: Covid-19 has infected more than 3 million people and killed at least 211,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Pandemic “far from over”: The World Health Organization says there are concerns about increasing trends in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and parts of Asia.
In the US: More than 1 million cases of coronavirus have been reported and at least 58,000 people have died.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a teleconference meeting on the spread of COVID-19 throughout Russia in Moscow on April 13. Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images
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President Trump meets with Republican lawmakers in the State Dining Room of the White House on Friday, May 8. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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