tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-581985660977953522024-03-14T02:28:42.405+00:00MARC JACOBS WEIGHT LOSS JOURNALThe Marc Jacobs Weight Loss Journal exposes the secrets of diet and weight loss. I do not want to keep you in a state of suspense. Here is the secret: Eat Less. Exercise is critical to one's health. Exercise is not the critical component of weight loss. This blog will focus on a healthy lifestyle with an emphasis on eating properly. Marvelous mental musings posted daily. I make an effort to be interesting, instructive and inspiring.Marc Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369794230480788959noreply@blogger.comBlogger1286125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58198566097795352.post-32885999676372603772022-09-19T02:19:00.003+01:002022-09-19T02:23:33.427+01:00HERE I GO AGAIN • INSPIRATION BY WHITESNAKE • 297.7 LBS TODAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHXyaPaTBNDu8zkK4_ivESS_M8ddaCiq4KpUt1xlerA7eRwJ4zEJ8efhYi1ipqom5gVMZtiiCDNJegbXWBEl_e4w2l3REECdPcKvVNzNqxG2lr3Ttx32pl4xGSFFyBS9ysjQKNLa-OWNJmyGAFH8gOKKWCzoWY_hzi-ICWEk0_jAnSr38y-yD/s486/Here-I-Go-Again-by-Whitesnake-Lyrics.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHXyaPaTBNDu8zkK4_ivESS_M8ddaCiq4KpUt1xlerA7eRwJ4zEJ8efhYi1ipqom5gVMZtiiCDNJegbXWBEl_e4w2l3REECdPcKvVNzNqxG2lr3Ttx32pl4xGSFFyBS9ysjQKNLa-OWNJmyGAFH8gOKKWCzoWY_hzi-ICWEk0_jAnSr38y-yD/s320/Here-I-Go-Again-by-Whitesnake-Lyrics.jpg"/></a></div>So today is Day 1 (again)
I ate reponsibly • 945 calories
Recently I have been gorging on 1000+ calorie breakfasts
I am nearing 65 years old in November
I will not get an unlimited number of opportunities to get healthy
This year I want to be well on my way to health by my birthday mid November
We'll see
One day in a row is not particulary amazing.Marc Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369794230480788959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58198566097795352.post-48749910300136480812021-01-03T12:31:00.001+00:002021-01-03T12:31:07.394+00:00January 2, 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fr41He005oA/X_G4710cJ-I/AAAAAAAAbXk/QLK5YKnsCjsEaD1h6AiBcVkRkNoPozM3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1412/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-03%2Bat%2B7.30.00%2BAM.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="1412" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fr41He005oA/X_G4710cJ-I/AAAAAAAAbXk/QLK5YKnsCjsEaD1h6AiBcVkRkNoPozM3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-03%2Bat%2B7.30.00%2BAM.png"/></a></div>Marc Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369794230480788959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58198566097795352.post-29821583666128880442021-01-02T04:25:00.002+00:002021-01-02T04:26:28.619+00:00NEW YEAR'S DAY 2021Well, it's been a few months since I had stepped on a scale.
Today I weighed 295 lbs (again)
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The Rolling Stones release Living In a Ghost Town, first original music since 2012</h1>
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Mick Jagger says new single will ‘resonate through the times we’re living in’ and references coronavirus with the lyric: ‘Life was so beautiful, then we all got locked down’</div>
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A moody, typically strutting track, its lyrics seem to reference the coronavirus crisis, in the lines: “Life was so beautiful / Then we all got locked down … Please let this be over / Stuck in a world without end.”</div>
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Elsewhere, Jagger sings of chaos (“Glasses were all smashing / Trumpets were all screaming”) and societal collapse:</div>
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Last Sunday, the isolated band performed together You Can’t Always Get What You Want via four separate video links for <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/20/one-world-together-at-home-concert-lady-gaga-raises-127m-coronavirus-relief" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">One World: Together at Home</a>, a concert to benefit charities and the World Health Organisation, co-organised by Lady Gaga. A 79-song album version of the eight-hour event has since been released.</div>
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The Rolling Stones’ most recent original material came out as part of the 2012 best-of compilation Grrr!, which featured two new songs: Doom and Gloom, and One More Shot. They have since released an album of blues covers, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/24/the-rolling-stones-blue-and-lonesome-review-covers-album-mick-jagger" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Blue and Lonesome</a>, in 2016, and another hits compilation, Honk, in 2019. Their last album of original material was 2005’s A Bigger Bang.</div>
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The quartet are approaching the milestone of 60 years in the business, after Jagger and Richards formed the group in 1962.</div>
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Despite a combined age of 302, they still frequently perform live, and have toured each year since 2012. Their <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/23/rolling-stones-review-london-stadium-jagger" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #6b5840; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">No Filter tour</a> began in September 2017, with the next leg originally scheduled for north America in early May. The band postponed it due to the coronavirus crisis, apologising and saying they were “hugely disappointed”. Replacement dates have not yet been scheduled.</div>
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Speaking in more depth about Living In a Ghost Town to Zane Lowe on Apple Music, Jagger said he originally wrote the song in 10 minutes, but made minor rewrites in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.</div>
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He also sympathised with those suffering: “It’s 20 million people lost their jobs completely for something that’s nothing to do with them at all. And also the less money you have, the more worries you have. So for lots of people, it’s really tough. I mean, I have friends and they live in really small apartments in a big city and they don’t have anywhere to go and they’ve lost their job. I’m very, very lucky and I’m very aware how lucky I am, but not everyone’s as lucky as me.”</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">It’s probably a coincidence, but I notice that as businesses go under, jobs are lost, careers are ended and trillions of dollars are drained from the economy, the people most avidly pushing the coronavirus panic are doing quite well. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">No politician or government official has taken a salary cut. To the contrary, dusty bureaucrats now find the entire country transfixed by their every utterance. Cable news hosts still make millions of dollars -- and now they get to work from home! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Annoyingly, though, journalists can’t seem to relay the basic elements of a news story: </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">who, what, where and why. </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">First, who’s dying? It appears to be mostly the old, people with specific medical conditions and vapers. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">To be sure, that’s not as important as daily updates on Chris Cuomo’s personal battle with the coronavirus, but it might be kind of important to the 17 million Americans who’ve been thrown out of work, many of whom are </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">not</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> elderly, immunocompromised or vapers. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Second, the “what.” What exactly constitutes a “coronavirus death”? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">It turns out a person with Stage 4 lung cancer and a bullet through the heart will be counted as a “coronavirus death” if he also tested positive for the disease, OR merely exhibited symptoms associated with it (symptoms that are coextensive with the flu and pneumonia). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">We’re told that, if anything, coronavirus deaths are being undercounted because the numbers don’t include those who die of it at home. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">If so, then the death count also excludes those who die at home of other things, like heart attacks and poisonings. Many of these people might have survived -- except they were too scared to go to a hospital or couldn't find an EMT to take them there, per current edicts. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The “where” is: Where did the virus originate, and where did it first land in this country? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Despite the media’s best efforts -- DON’T CALL IT THE “CHINESE VIRUS”! -- people know that the virus began at a wet market in China.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">But where did it start in this country? Washington state was the site of our very first case. Washington state is also 9.3% Asian. Even now, it has eight times more coronavirus cases per capita than neighboring Oregon (4.8% Asian). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Could it be that Chinese-Americans have more contact with the epicenter of this plague than other Americans? As the left always lectures us, BELIEVE THE SCIENCE! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The virus next leapt to New York (9% Asian) and New Jersey (10% Asian). The worst-hit borough of Manhattan is Queens. Guess which borough has the most Asians? Elmhurst Hospital in Queens is the worst-hit hospital in the nation. Elmhurst neighborhood: 50% Asian. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Notice a pattern? While it’s true that “viruses don’t have nationalities!” -- and thank you very much for pointing that out, media! -- the carriers of viruses </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">do</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> have nationalities. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Arguably, Trump had a reason to shut down travel from China other than “hysteria, xenophobia and fear-mongering", as Joe Biden claimed in a tweet on Feb. 1. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Of course, once it’s here, it’s here and can spread all over. Still, compare New York and New Jersey to, say, Montana and West Virginia. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">-- New York (9% Asian): 29 per 100,000 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">-- New Jersey (10% Asian): 13 per 100,000 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">-- Montana (0.9% Asian): 0.6 per 100,000 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">-- West Virginia (0.8% Asian): 0.2 per 100,000 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Then there’s California, which alone among the four states with the highest Asian populations has relatively few coronavirus cases, probably due to its warm climate and little public transportation, among other things. In those respects, California is a lot like Texas -- which has about a third as many Asians and also about half as many coronavirus deaths (1.1 per 100,000 in California, compared to 0.71 per 100,000 in Texas). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">MEDIA: </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Oh, why does it matter?</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">OK, OK, you’re right. But isn’t the prevalence of the coronavirus in states with high Asian populations at least as interesting as this recent article in The New York Times magazine? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Story summary: </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Man with severe asthma gets coronavirus, has low-grade fever for approximately 10 days with muscle pain, nausea and fatigue, develops walking pneumonia per X-ray (no clinical evidence) ...<br /><br />Recovers.<br /><br />The End.</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Finally, why? Why do we have to deal with this virus at all? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The media would prefer if you would stop asking this question, but Americans who didn’t have to die are dead because of Wall Street’s decision to merge our economy with the Chinese, who have unusual eating habits. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The Chinese eat wolf pups. But eating dog wasn’t weird enough. It didn’t give them a frisson of freakishness. They also eat bats, snakes and chicken testicles. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Husband: </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Oh, honey, golden retriever again?</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">[Kids groan] </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Mom: </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Not tonight! For a special treat, we're having chicken testicles!</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Kids: </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Aw, you're the best mom ever!</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Tigers and rhinos are the most endangered species on Earth because Chinese people think rhinoceros horns and tiger penises </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1559635320/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1559635320&linkCode=as2&tag=anncoulter-20&linkId=2345c544cf38d7d516cc1c4f3cd61ada" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">can cure impotence</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=anncoulter-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1559635320" height="1" style="border: none !important; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px !important; outline: none;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">. The Caspian, Bali and Javan tigers are already extinct because of this charming folk remedy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Recently added to the endangered species list is the cute, cartoonish pangolin, the most trafficked animal is the world. Unfortunately, the pangolin’s scales are believed to cure any number of ailments, according to traditional Chinese medicine. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The media are too busy covering for China. At least the Chinese aren’t </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">white.</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Although, it occurs to me that, despite America’s terrible toxic whiteness, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZJJ3QLM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00ZJJ3QLM&linkCode=as2&tag=anncoulter-20&linkId=7ea9ef32199641543639f73925f961c2" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">one way our culture is superior</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=anncoulter-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B00ZJJ3QLM" height="1" style="border: none !important; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px !important; outline: none;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> to others is that we don’t believe lunatic nonsense that wipes out entire species or launches viral pandemics on the world. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Now back to Chris Cuomo’s riveting battle with the coronavirus. </span><br />
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Marc Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369794230480788959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58198566097795352.post-881665241608081642020-04-09T13:30:00.001+01:002020-04-09T13:30:26.684+01:00PASSOVER SEDER WITH DENNIS PRAGER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let's pray that this gift from Dennis Prager never sees the 2nd Annual edition.<br />
Thank you, Dennis Prager....<br />
I am convinced your 'ticket to heaven' was long ago earned....<br />
Last Night, you joined the elite of the elite....<br />
You are a marvel.<br />
Thank you,<br />
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<br />Marc Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369794230480788959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58198566097795352.post-37253126919901394112020-04-08T11:17:00.000+01:002020-04-08T11:17:03.425+01:00MAYBE NATURE SHOULDN'T BE WORSHIPPED AFTER ALL by Dennis Prager<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Maybe Nature Shouldn't be Worshipped After All</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">by Dennis Prager</span><br />
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A statement widely attributed to the great British thinker G. K. Chesterton describes the modern period as perfectly as any single idea can: “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”</div>
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One of these substitute gods has been nature.</div>
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Indeed, of all the false gods, nature is probably the most natural for people to worship. Every religion prior to the Bible had nature-gods — the sun, the moon, the sea, gods of fertility, gods of rain and so on.</div>
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That is why the farther Western society gets from biblical, i.e., Judeo-Christian, religions, the more nature is worshipped.</div>
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Everyone on the left and right cares about the environment. But caring about the environment is not the same as environmentalism. Environmentalism, for most of its adherents, is a secular religion. These people, many of whom refer to, and truly regard, the Earth as a goddess (Gaia, the name of the ancient Greek Earth goddess) worship the environment.</div>
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The man who, more than any other, started the modern environmentalist religion was James Lovelock, who developed the “Gaia hypothesis” in the 1970s. Almost 50 years later, in 2014, Lovelock told The Guardian, “Environmentalism has become a religion.”</div>
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New York Times columnist Ross Douthat described the 2009 James Cameron blockbuster film, “Avatar,” as “Cameron’s long apologia for pantheism, a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world.” That equation of God with nature was a major reason for the film’s popularity.</div>
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Douthat, one of the only religious (as in believing in and practicing a religion) columnists at The New York Times, added, “The threat of global warming, meanwhile, has lent the cult of Nature qualities that every successful religion needs: a crusading spirit, a rigorous set of ‘thou shalt nots,’ and a piping-hot apocalypse.”</div>
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When you ask atheists, as I have for decades, what they believe in, the most common answer is “science.” There was a young man, an atheist, at the gym where I work out, who responded, “Science!” (in place of “God bless you”) whenever someone sneezed. There is nothing higher than science for an atheist because the natural world is all there is. So, worship of the Earth, the environment or nature is almost inevitable in a secular world.</div>
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The Bible takes an entirely different view. As explained at length in my Bible commentary, “The Rational Bible,” the first verse of the Bible — “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth” — contains the most radical idea in history. It stated, for the first time in history, that God created nature and is not part of nature. It is one of the reasons I believe the first five books, the Torah, are God-given. No human beings 3,000 years ago in the late Bronze Age would have come up with an idea so opposed to the way the human mind naturally works — to regard gods as part of nature.</div>
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From the point of view of the secular, Gaia-worshipping world, Genesis gets even worse when, 27 verses later, God tells human beings to, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”</div>
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Both instructions infuriate Earth-worshippers. Regarding being fruitful, they oppose people having more than one child, and many advocate having no children so as to have minimal human impact on Mother Earth. But the second part — ruling over nature — is what really angers them.</div>
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Maybe the coronavirus will awaken young people, who have been taught by nature-worshipping teachers and raised by nature-worshipping parents, to the idiocy of worshipping nature rather than subduing it. Nature, it turns out, is not our friend, let alone a god. If it were up to nature, we’d all be dead: Animals would eat us; weather would freeze us to death; disease would wipe out the rest of us. If we don’t subdue nature, nature will subdue us. It’s that simple.</div>
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Nature is beautiful and awe-inspiring. It’s also brutal and merciless. “Nature, red in tooth and claw,” as Alfred Tennyson aptly describes it. Nature follows no moral rules and shows no compassion. The basic law of all biological life is “survival of the fittest,” while the basic law of Judaism and Christianity is the opposite: the survival of the weakest with the help of the fittest. Nature wants the weakest eaten by the strongest. Hospitals are as anti-natural an entity as exists.</div>
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Only human beings make hospitals. We do so not by worshipping nature but by subduing it.</div>
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If the COVID-19 virus destroys the foolish veneration of nature and leads more people, especially the young, to a new respect for the Judeo-Christian worldview, it might be the one silver lining in this catastrophe.</div>
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This column was originally posted on <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2020/04/07/maybe-nature-shouldnt-be-worshipped-after-all-n2566463" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #d96717; text-decoration-skip: objects;" target="_blank">Townhall.com</a>.</div>
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They have all been used as part of my personal marketing campaign to promote the BEST-SELLING ITEM in America aside from toilet paper, Purell and Baby Wipes.... That is, ELASTIC (used for home-made fabric masks to protect from coronavirus.</div>
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This week, the Mexican government announced the <a href="https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/extienden-cuarentena-mexico-30-abril-sana-distancia-coronavirus-covid-19-sot-hugo-lopez-gatell/" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%;" target="_blank">suspension of non-essential activities</a> in the public and private sectors until April 30 in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. The country has more than 1,500 cases and 50 deaths, <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%;" target="_blank">according to Johns Hopkins. </a></div>
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If there is one thing on which you’d think left and right could agree, it would be the proper response to the present coronavirus. After all, COVID-19 doesn’t distinguish between left and right: Conservatives and liberals are just as likely to contract and even die from it.</div>
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Yet, it’s amazing how consistently left and right differ on even this issue.</div>
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Virtually every opinion piece in The New York Times, The Washington Post and every other mainstream, i.e., left-wing, journal share two characteristics: a sense of foreboding (millions will die) and an unshakeable conviction that to prevent mass death, the world’s economy must be shut down.</div>
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Meanwhile, virtually every opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal and on just about every conservative website contains less foreboding and asks more questions about whether the cure may be worse than the disease. To cite some examples:</div>
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March 11: Ben Shapiro published a piece titled “Our Fears About Coronavirus Are Overblown.”</div>
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March 16: The Hoover Institution published a piece by Richard A. Epstein that’s thesis was: “I believe that the current dire models radically overestimate the ultimate death toll.”</div>
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March 16: City Journal published conservative thinker Victor Davis Hanson’s piece that’s thesis was: “Our response could prove as harmful as the virus itself.”</div>
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March 17: My column titled “Why the Remedy May Be Worse Than the Disease” appeared on many conservative sites</div>
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March 19: The lead Wall Street Journal editorial was titled “Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown.”</div>
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March 19: A column titled “Will the Costs of a Great Depression Outweigh the Risks of Coronavirus?” appeared on The Federalist’s website.</div>
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March 24: The Wall Street Journal published a column by two Stanford professors of medicine titled “Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?”</div>
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Meanwhile, the liberal and left-wing media published hundreds of articles warning us of millions of deaths if we don’t shut down the American economy.</div>
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Or take the example of President Donald Trump’s announcement at a press conference on March 19 that hydroxychloroquine had “shown really good promise” in helping to cure COVID-19.</div>
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Virtually every left-wing news medium mocked him for making that claim.</div>
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March 21: “AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Breathless Takes on Drugs for Virus.”</div>
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They implicitly or explicitly blamed the president for the death of an Arizona man who ingested a fish tank cleaner because it contained chloroquine phosphate (because the name sounds similar to hydroxychloroquine).</div>
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March 24: CBS News published a story headlined “Arizona Man Dies, Wife Ill After Taking Drug Touted as Virus Treatment: ‘Trump Kept Saying It Was Basically Pretty Much a Cure.'”</div>
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March 24: The left-wing site BuzzFeed simply lied about that story in order to blame the president: “A Man Died After Self-Medicating With a Form of a Drug That Trump Promoted as a Potential Treatment for the Coronavirus.”</div>
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March 24: The left-wing St. Louis Post-Dispatch did the same in its headline: “Man Dies After Taking Chloroquine Phosphate, Additive in Drug Touted by Trump as COVID-19 Treatment.”</div>
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March 24: The Democratic governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak, issued an order that, in the words of the Nevada Health Response, “prohibits (the) prescribing and dispensing chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for a COVID-19 diagnosis.”</div>
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A particularly egregious example of the left-right divide on the coronavirus response appeared in The Washington Post on March 27. One of its columnists, Max Boot, wrote:</div>
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“Radio host Dennis Prager bemoaned our unwillingness to sacrifice lives as we did during World War II, saying ‘that attitude leads to appeasement’ and ‘cowardice.’ The United States lost 418,500 people in World War II … but it would be far worse to lose 2.2 million civilians — the worst-case estimate of the U.S. death toll if we let the novel coronavirus spread unimpeded.”</div>
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On my radio show and in my weekly PragerU “Fireside Chat,” I criticized New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the way he defended shutting down his state: “I want to be able to say to the people of New York: I did everything we could do. … And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.”</div>
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It is hard to imagine a more morally absurd sentiment. Anyone who thinks rationally knows it is not worth depriving millions of people of their incomes, forcing thousands of companies to go out of business, causing recovering addicts to lapse back into addiction and much more economic and social damage to “save one life.”</div>
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As we are fighting a “war” against the virus, I used a war analogy to make my point. I noted that if we had fought World War II with the attitude that we cannot lose one life, we would never have fought the Nazis or the Japanese. I further noted that we do not make any social policy based on saving one life. For example, every time we raise the speed limit, we know thousands more people will die.</div>
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But the left went nuts. Max Boot in The Washington Post is only one example.</div>
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So, then, why this left-right gulf?</div>
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One reason, as I have written previously, is that hysteria is to the left what oxygen is to biological life. Leftists pride themselves on being rational. But the further left one goes, the more feelings displace reason.</div>
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A second reason is hatred of Trump. On the left, damaging Trump is more important than truth and more important than the welfare of the American people. If Trump believes hydroxychloroquine offers hope, let’s debunk its usefulness.</div>
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A third reason is leftists are afraid — of life and of death. Fear of life is why they build “safe spaces” on campuses for students who cannot handle a visiting speaker with whom they differ. And they are afraid of death. They undoubtedly find Patrick Henry’s famous cry, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” incomprehensible, if not downright foolish.</div>
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Even COVID-19 has brought no cease-fire in the ongoing American civil war.</div>
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Who better than the father of “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” to guide us through the thicket of being together, alone?</div>
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Our lives now depend on staying home and doing nothing.</div>
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We are cooped up with no end in sight, getting increasingly irascible.</div>
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So I thought I would reach out to the world’s leading expert on the art of nothing: the endlessly irascible man whose mantra has always been: “It doesn’t pay to leave your house — what’s the point?”</div>
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I found Larry David barricaded in his home in the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. “No one gets in here,” America’s most famous misanthrope said. “Only in an emergency plumbing catastrophe would I open the door.”</div>
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I asked what he fears most and he replied: “Anarchy and a potential dental emergency — and not necessarily in that order.”</div>
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Long ago, when he was a miserable stand-up comic in New York, he would sometimes abruptly stop his act, telling the audience, “This is what happens when you run out of nothing.” Then he made two of the best shows in TV history, “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” about … nothing.</div>
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And now, in this plague season, Mr. David’s odes to trivial pursuits are providing relief to some of us who are nostalgic for the days when we had the bandwidth to focus on trivia, when our lives weren’t blighted and freighted.</div>
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“It’s an escapist pleasure,” said Daniel D’Addario, the chief TV critic of Variety, who has been watching one episode of “Curb” at lunchtime and one before bed. He does not think Mr. David will be a target of the class rage hitting Hollywood, pillorying tone-deaf celebrities who blanketed Instagram with their <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/arts/music/coronavirus-gal-gadot-imagine.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">cringe-worthy “Imagine” video </a>and glamour shots of their posh quarantine compounds and <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/02/arts/02reuters-health-coronavirus-celebrities.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">yachts</a> and petal-strewn baths.</div>
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“Larry David is saying you can have as much money as you want and not only are you still unhappy but you’re still unhappy about the most picayune things — jealousy and envy and all these venial sins,” Mr. D’Addario said. “That is something that puts a smile on my face, as opposed to celebrities telling you to be happy from inside their gated communities, which engenders rage.”</div>
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I asked Mr. David, a social critic of Hollywood mores who has been <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.vulture.com/2015/01/larry-david-fish-in-the-dark.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">called</a> “a savage Edith Wharton” by his friend Larry Charles, why all these celebrities seemed so devoid of self-awareness.</div>
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“I don’t know, that’s the $64,000 question,” he said. “I guess their instinct is to help, their motives are good, and they don’t consider how it might come off.” But, he added, “I think it’s a complete lack of judgment to talk about your lifestyle at this time, it’s crazy. Of course other people are going to react like that.”</div>
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Mr. David only popped his head up to make a P.S.A. for the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, asking people to not be “covidiots,” to stay home and not hurt “old people like me.” He was a little embarrassed when<a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.si.com/golf/2020/03/28/larry-david-fundraiser-coronavirus-curb-your-enthusiasm" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title=""> news leaked </a>that he had set up a GoFundMe page for the golf caddies at his beloved Riviera Golf Course adjacent to his home.</div>
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We’re FaceTiming — something Mr. David has grown to like in quarantine — and he picks up his iPad to walk me around and show me the view of the deserted golf course from his bedroom window.</div>
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It’s my first FaceTime, and I’m nervous, having watched all week as even the glossiest cable news shows have downshifted into<a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/style/decor-webcam-coronavirus.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title=""> low-tech “Wayne’s World” basement productions</a>. To shore up confidence beforehand I asked my lighting sensei, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/style/tom-ford-maureen-dowd.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Tom Ford</a>, for some tips and he kindly sent these instructions, which you all are welcome to use:</div>
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“Put the computer up on a stack of books so the camera is slightly higher than your head. Say, about the top of your head. And then point it down into your eyes. Then take a tall lamp and set it next to the computer on the side of your face you feel is best. The lamp should be in line with and slightly behind the computer so the light falls nicely on your face. Then put a piece of white paper or a white tablecloth on the table you are sitting at but make sure it can’t be seen in the frame. It will give you a bit of fill and bounce. And lots of powder, et voilà!”</div>
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The crane-like Mr. David, in a dark blue Zegna pullover, rust-colored pants and sneakers, is sporting a scruffy beard. “Any facial hair is very beneficial for the bald man,” he said. “It really enhances the bald man’s appearance.” He looked snug in a blue wing chair in a corner of his house. I was less comfortable.</div>
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“I’m only seeing half your face,” he complained. “Do you know that?”</div>
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When I ask if he is hoarding anything, he is outraged. “Not a hoarder,” he said. “In fact, in a few months, if I walk into someone’s house and stumble onto 50 rolls of toilet paper in a closet somewhere, I will end the friendship. It’s tantamount to being a horse thief in the Old West.”</div>
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“I never could have lived in the Old West,” he added parenthetically. “I would have been completely paranoid about someone stealing my horse. No locks. You tie them to a post! How could you go into a saloon and enjoy yourself knowing your horse could get taken any moment? I would be so distracted. Constantly checking to see if he was still there.”</div>
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Jerry Seinfeld has observed that Larry David is the greatest proof that “you are what you are,” given the fact that he remained a curmudgeon even once he got rich and popular.</div>
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Though, at 72, Mr. David does seem more comfortable in his skin. His outlook used to be so dark that Mr. Charles, one of the original writers of “Seinfeld,” said that if he thought he could get away with it, Mr. David would have put out contracts to kill people.</div>
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Now, however, he is contentedly holed up with the older of his two daughters, Cazzie, 25; an Australian shepherd puppy named Bernie (after Sanders, whom Mr. David embodies with uncanny likeness on “Saturday Night Live”); a cat; and his girlfriend, Ashley Underwood, who worked as a producer of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime satire, “Who Is America?” Ms. Underwood is friends with Isla Fisher, Mr. Cohen’s wife, who had a hilarious role in this season’s “Curb” as a <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WTobzCuy1c" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">professional crier who manipulates Larry into handing over his mother’s mink stole</a>.</div>
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Mr. David met Ms. Underwood at Mr. Cohen’s birthday party in 2017. “We were seated next to each other, I think with that in mind,” he said of the fix-up. “Much to her surprise I left before dessert. I was doing so well, banter-wise, I didn’t want to risk staying too long and blowing the good impression.”</div>
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Mr. David and Cazzie, who writes <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://airmail.news/issues/2020-3-28/sex-and-the-single-meme" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">wry columns for Graydon Carter’s digital weekly, Air Mail</a>, are both lifelong germophobes. “This might be the only thing I’ve ever agreed with Trump about, we should put an end to the shake,” Mr. David said. “You know, we might as well end intercourse while we’re at it. That’s always been a lot of trouble.”</div>
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He also agrees with the president about the allure of hand sanitizer, which was a pivotal plot point in this season of “Curb.” “Who can resist Purell?” he said. “Anytime you see it, you’re drawn to it.”</div>
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Now that Mr. David can’t go out and argue with friends, neighbors, strangers and staffers over stuff like whether he can clean his glasses on a woman’s blouse or the regulation shape for a putter, he must do his bickering inside his own home.</div>
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“There’s not a moment in the day when there isn’t friction between at least two of us,” he said of the trapped troika. “Then when that gets resolved, two others are at each other’s throats and it’s invariably about dishes. ‘You didn’t do the dishes!’ Or ‘You didn’t help with the dishes!’ I think that is being screamed all over the world now.</div>
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“Another issue is the business of one of us starting a show and not waiting for the other. Huge problem! You at least have to ask. Ashley does not ask. She starts and then it’s impossible to catch up. And I’ll catch her. I’ll walk into the room, and she’ll instantly click off the TV.”</div>
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Cazzie David said that the real Larry David does not constantly start fights. In fact, it is just the opposite. “I guess this is kind of ironic, considering his character on TV, but he can’t stand having any animosity with anyone,” she told me.</div>
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She said that if she gets into an argument with someone in the house, “he cannot stand it for a second. It just pains him. I remember when my sister and I were growing up, we would whisper-fight because if he heard us fighting, he would just get so upset, like it was the end of the world that two people were angry with each other. And it was just kind of a crime to stress him out because he’s really just so gentle and nice, so we always avoid upsetting him at all costs.”</div>
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Even though Mr. David’s iconic shows are all about whining, he doesn’t tolerate it at home.</div>
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“If anyone can make you feel stupid for complaining, it’s him,” Ms. David said. “If I complain even a little bit about anything, he’ll ask me ‘How old are you?’ and I’ll be like, ‘25,’ and he does that thing all parents and grandparents do and be like ‘You want to know where I was at 25? In a subway station selling magazines. In the Army reserves.’ He cannot stand hearing complaints of any kind, especially right now when a lot of us are lucky enough to be cozy in our homes.</div>
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“He’s super against any self-pity. He thinks it’s the most disgusting thing in the world. So there’s no wallowing allowed, even when we were growing up. In the house, you’re not allowed to feel bad about yourself or be depressed. He just has no sympathy for it. So if you’re depressed or feeling bad about something, he’ll just tell you to take a shower. That’s like his cure for mental stress. And if it doesn’t work, he’ll be like, ‘Just take another one.’”</div>
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Mr. David ventures out for solo walks in the deserted neighborhood. “I cross the street when I see someone coming, like I used to do when I was a kid in Brooklyn and the Italian kids would shake me down for change,” he said. “And when someone crosses first, I know I shouldn’t take it personally but I can’t help it. How dare they?”</div>
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I wonder how he’s faring without restaurants, which provide much of the fodder for his shows.</div>
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“The one positive thing to come out of this for me is the lunch decision, which in normal times takes me at least 15 minutes,” he said. “Now there’s nothing to it. It’s turkey or tuna. There’s nothing else in the house.”</div>
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There is another positive, which I point out to the antisocial Mr. David: Social life has skidded to a halt. “I will say that the lack of invitations, OK, that’s been fantastic,” he agreed. “Yeah, that I love. You don’t have to make up any excuses.” In “Curb,” Mr. David’s namesake character — a more obnoxious, fortissimo version of himself — is constantly lying to get out of going places. “Saying ‘no’ is such a skill in and of itself because the no’s are rarely direct,” he said. “There’s a lot of thought that’s put into the no and those emails or texts when you are saying no really do take a lot of time and effort to get the wording exactly right.”</div>
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Cheryl Hines, who plays his ex-wife on “Curb,” observed: “I bet Larry’s in heaven. He’s been trying to social-distance for years.”</div>
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Mr. David said the best way to stay away from self-destructive behavior in quarantine is to think of it “like quitting smoking. You wake up and you say, ‘I’m not going to smoke today.’ ‘I’m not going to freak out today.’ That’s the only way you can do it.”</div>
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The crisis has coined a mordant new vocabulary: covidivorce, corona babies, isolationship. And in Hollywood, there’s “pandemic nice guys,” a term being thrown around by high-strung types who suddenly find themselves engaging in shocking niceties, like waving out their car windows at pedestrians and thanking the garbage collectors and police officers.</div>
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During what he called his “chaos break,” Mr. David was making notes on his phone, as he always does, about this dark chapter for sunny California, in case it can inspire him, even just as a flashback in “Curb.”</div>
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The show just finished its 10th season over two decades. Mr. David said that this season, a gleeful barbecue of P.C. culture, may be his favorite. As usual, his character roams around town, getting into big, self-defeating tangles about minor issues.</div>
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After buying cold coffee and a scone that tasted more like a muffin at Mocha Joe’s coffee shop, Larry opens up a “spite store,” a competing coffee shop next door called Latte Larry’s. This spurs Sean Penn to open up an exotic bird store next to a bird store that dissed him and Mila Kunis to open up a jewelry store next to a jewelry store she wants to put out of business.</div>
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It was, typically, inspired by a real-life incident. “I went into this store on the Vineyard and I got a cup of coffee and it was a little cold and I said, ‘You know, this coffee’s a little cold’ and they didn’t give me satisfaction. I walked out of the store and across the street was a shack. And of course, I was pissed off and I said, ‘I’d like to buy that shack and build the exact same store but with lower prices and take them out of business.’”</div>
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But he didn’t?</div>
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“Oh, no,” he said. “God, no.”</div>
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Mr. David was stunned when President Trump retweeted a scene from the episode where Larry wears a MAGA hat to get out of commitments in liberal Hollywood, and ends up using it to assuage a Trumpster on a motorcycle with road rage. Mr. Trump tweeted a clip of the fight with the motorcycle guy with the message: “TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!”</div>
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“What in God’s name was that?” Mr. David asked me. “That was crazy, crazy. I don’t understand it. I still don’t get it.”</div>
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Mr. David’s show is beloved by some Trumpsters because it is so anti-P. C. and because Larry is always raging against the machine. But he told an audience at the 92nd Street Y that he didn’t care if he alienated Trump voters with his MAGA hat episode. “Alienate yourselves! Go! Go and alienate! You have my blessing.”</div>
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When we speak about the president, Mr. David marveled, “You know, it’s an amazing thing. The man has not one redeeming quality. You could take some of the worst dictators in history and I’m sure that all of them, you could find one decent quality. Stalin could have had one decent quality, we don’t know!”</div>
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He said he gets mad at Mr. Trump’s briefings, where he contradicts his own scientists in real time. “That’s the hardest thing about the day, watching what comes out of this guy’s mouth,” he said. “It turns you into a maniac because you’re yelling at the television. All of a sudden, you find yourself screaming, like I used to do on the streets of New York, pre-‘Seinfeld,’ when I saw happy couples on the street.”</div>
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Does he ever think Trump can be funny?</div>
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“He’s like a bad Catskills comic,” Mr. David replied.</div>
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He said he’s been watching the <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/hillary-clinton-documentary.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Hillary Clinton documentary </a>on Hulu. “I’m not the first person to say this, obviously, but you never got the feeling that you were really seeing her. There was a problem warming up to her. But you see her in this documentary and you love her.”</div>
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The Hillary moment he can’t stop thinking about is when she didn’t wheel on the lurking Trump in the debate and tell him to get the hell out of her frame.</div>
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“I have literally gone over that moment in my basement so many times, pretending to be her, trying out different lines to say something to him,” Mr. David said. “I’ll say, ‘WHAT in God’s name are you doing?’ ‘What the <span class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</span> are you doing?’ ‘Back up, man, what are you doing?’”</div>
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He is relieved not to be flying back and forth to New York on weekends to do his Sanders imitation for “SNL.”</div>
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“Imagine if he had become president, what would have happened to my life?” he said.</div>
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After he learned on Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s PBS show, “Finding Your Roots,” that Mr. Sanders was a distant cousin, he ran into the pol at the “Today” show and Bernie greeted him with a big “Cousin!”</div>
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“When I see him, it does feel like I’m talking to somebody in my family,’’ he said.</div>
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I wondered if he took it personally when Mrs. Clinton said of Mr. Sanders’s reputation in Congress: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him.”</div>
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“It was a little harsh, yeah,” he said.</div>
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Does he think it’s time for his doppelgänger to drop out?</div>
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“I feel he should drop out,” Mr. David said. “Because he’s too far behind. He can’t get the nomination. And I think, you know, it’s no time to fool around here. Everybody’s got to support Biden.”</div>
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How else is he spending his time in lockdown?</div>
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Mr. David said he’s watching “Ozark” and “Unorthodox” on Netflix. He tried to watch America’s favorite distraction, “Tiger King,” but couldn’t get past the first episode. “I found it so disturbing,” he said. “The lions and the tigers just really scared the hell out of me. They were going to attack somebody. They were going to kill somebody. I didn’t want to see them attack and those people were just so insane, I couldn’t watch it.”</div>
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Mr. David, who starred in Woody Allen’s 2009 movie, “Whatever Works,” also said he is reading Mr. Allen’s memoir, “<a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/books/review-apropos-of-nothing-memoir-woody-allen.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Apropos of Nothing</a>,” which was picked up by Arcade Publishing after <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/books/hachette-woody-allen-apropos-nothing.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Hachette Book Group dropped it </a>following pressure from another one of its authors, Mr. Allen’s son Ronan Farrow, and protests.</div>
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“Yeah, it’s pretty great, it’s a fantastic book, so funny,” Mr. David said. “You feel like you’re in the room with him and yeah, it’s just a great book and it’s hard to walk away after reading that book thinking that this guy did anything wrong.”</div>
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I told Mr. David I disagree with his remarks in the past that people don’t like to see neurotic single guys or older guys onscreen after a certain age. I could watch “Curb” ad infinitum.</div>
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“I can only think about when Buster Keaton got old,” he said. “I don’t know, he was such a great comedian and then he just — you didn’t want to see him. Even old people don’t want to watch old people.”</div>
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It was time for Mr. David to hang up. He had to get back to doing nothing.</div>
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Larry David: Confirm.</div>
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Never had ’em. I wouldn’t go to 110th Street for a bagel. That’s just way too far to go for a bagel. Who’s going to 110th Street for a bagel? That’s crazy.</div>
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Deny. I carry brush picks.</div>
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I’m not saying it didn’t happen at some point. Yeah, I may have pulled out a piece of floss from my pocket. But I can say categorically that I have not had a piece of dental floss in any pocket in at least seven years.</div>
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Confirm. I also really like to throw anything — paper and gum — into baskets that are like 10 feet away to see if I can throw it in. I think I’m going to do a show about it.</div>
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Deny. Where’d you get that from? Is that true?</div>
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It was a week.</div>
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Confirm!</div>
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It wasn’t positioned there purposely but when I noticed it, I didn’t say anything!</div>
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Confirm.</div>
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Yes, other than a cellphone. I have no interest in taking pictures. Who cares? What’s the point?<br />
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I don’t remember. But sure, yeah, it’s good for the brand.</div>
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Yeah, she did. I always read Dr. <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/03/archives/rose-n-franzblau-is-dead-at-77-an-advice-columnist-for-25-years.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Rose Franzblau</a>’s column and then this one time I read the column and it was about me. It was me! I wish I had cut out the article and saved it.</div>
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“A house divided against itself cannot stand!”</div>
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Oh, God no. I find that’s an extreme waste of time. I’m supposed to be sitting here repeating this thing over and over again. Toward what end?</div>
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The vicious contagion presents perhaps the most significant personal opportunity for change in our lifetimes. That’s because the bustle has broken down. The pursuit of money, sex, power, and other magnets are all on hold. We are now apart from the daily machine that can grind us into unthinking, callous people. At least most of us are.<br />
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So, how about some introspection? Some inward evaluation. An honest appraisal of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Maybe we start with the country and then we’ll get to what’s really important- our own selves - as the country singers might say.</div>
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An essential question for me is: how did this country get so hateful? If you are following the contagion news, you know the blame game has kicked in. It’s the “Trump virus”, according to a New York Times columnist. Another far left writer in that liberal journal (it no longer meets the standards of a newspaper) says the virus is enabled by ultra-religious Christians who “deny science.” Of course, she ties that into the climate change debate as well as President Trump.</div>
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On the right, some loons accuse China of weaponizing the contagion without a shred of evidence to back up the claim.</div>
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With so much craziness available on the net, often disseminated by corporate media, the divisive atmosphere has fueled a unique kind of American loathing. Many of us actively despise those with whom we disagree.</div>
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Thus, in our newfound downtime, we might think about whether we are a part of the loathing movement and if we are, whether that is enhancing our individual lives.</div>
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And then there is “what your country can do for you.” President Kennedy rejected that sentiment but today the concept is warmly embraced by millions of Americans who firmly believe in the Bernie Sanders doctrine: that the government should provide. No need for self-reliance, that’s for fools. A vast central power structure will dictate what Americans can and cannot have. We the people are not the deciders. Bernie and his comrades would be.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: "secondaryfont" ,;">It is simply incredible to me, a son of the Cold War, that socialism is on the rise in America. Perhaps during the contagion we can think hard about our individual freedoms which are under assault from the virus. Do you like being told how to live and where you can go? How about you, Democratic Party, are you embracing the restrictions we are seeing? They are obviously necessary. But they are also a vivid message. This is what can happen all the time when big government totalitarian rule.</span><br />
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Finally, what about you? Do you fear the virus? Why? Are you afraid to die? Do you fear giving the contagion to people you love? Are strangers part of the equation? Do you feel for the suffering and dying? Do you pray for them? Do you pray at all?</div>
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All throughout history the world has suffered as it is suffering now. Those who see the big picture understand that dreadful plagues, wars, natural disasters, and human atrocities are all part of earthly existence.</div>
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People who accept that and learn from the viral calamity, are likely to prosper in the aftermath.</div>
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People who see themselves as victims and who lament the loss of individual pursuits, will stay in place. And, in America, we still have that right - to remain selfish and even more harshly - to remain stupid.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Why it matters: </span>April is going to be very hard. But public health officials are in agreement that hunkering down — in our own homes — and weathering one of the darkest months in American history is the only way to prevent <em>millions</em> of American deaths.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">The big picture: </span>Because of <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-outbreak-testing-delays-60a25ce6-f08d-438f-b294-358e0c300d95.html" data-vars-content-id="9c611279-070a-4be7-9c4a-c6d3c4db2dbf" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-headline="America's grimmest month" data-vars-item="in_content_link" data-vars-link-text="early missteps" data-vars-sub-category="story" href="https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-outbreak-testing-delays-60a25ce6-f08d-438f-b294-358e0c300d95.html" style="color: #2257da;" target="_self">early missteps</a> by the Trump administration, the virus has already spread widely throughout the United States, undetected, and the number of cases in most major U.S. cities has skyrocketed.</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 3rem; padding-left: 1rem;">We now must wait for the virus to run its course among those who are already sick, or have recently been exposed and fall ill in the next few days.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 3rem; padding-left: 1rem;">Even though the administration is urging adherence to its social distancing guidelines, many states still haven't shut down nonessential businesses or issued shelter-in-place orders, meaning the virus is still likely spreading in these areas.</li>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">By the numbers:</span> Estimates now being echoed by the Trump administration have found that the U.S. coronavirus outbreak will peak in two weeks.</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 3rem; padding-left: 1rem;">On that day, 2,341<span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span>coronavirus deaths are expected in a single day. </li>
<li style="margin-top: 3rem; padding-left: 1rem;">The model predicts that 81,000 Americans will die over the next four months, and that's assuming strong adherence to social distancing measures.</li>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">The alternative is worse. </span>Without social distancing, as many as 2.2 million Americans could die, Trump said yesterday — the number of deaths predicted by a <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-report-us-uk-strategies-e45bc5d4-d2f1-40e2-825e-429b2b7c1b50.html" data-vars-content-id="9c611279-070a-4be7-9c4a-c6d3c4db2dbf" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-headline="America's grimmest month" data-vars-item="in_content_link" data-vars-link-text="report released" data-vars-sub-category="story" href="https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-report-us-uk-strategies-e45bc5d4-d2f1-40e2-825e-429b2b7c1b50.html" style="color: #2257da;" target="_self">report released</a>earlier this month.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Between the lines: </span>Even though the federal government and private companies are scrambling to manufacture more medical supplies, even under miraculous scenarios, it's too late to manufacture our way out of the shortages that are predicted over the next few weeks.</div>
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<li style="margin-top: 3rem; padding-left: 1rem;">But health care workers and the federal government are getting creative with ways to stretch a limited supply, through measures like sanitizing and reusing masks and finding ways to use a single ventilator for more than one patient.</li>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">The bottom line: </span>We should all expect the same harrowing stories from hospitals in Italy and China to be replicated here. At the same time, we'll be wading into uncharted economic territory.</div>
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<li style="margin-top: 3rem; padding-left: 1rem;">And yet, we've never all had such an important role to play, as individuals, in mitigating a national crisis: staying home, and stopping the spread.</li>
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He explained: "Our country wasn't built to be shut down. America will again and soon be open for business," suggesting that the timeline will be weeks instead of months. "If it were up to the doctors," Trump said, "they'd say, 'Let's shut down the entire world.' This could create a much bigger problem than the problem that you started with." Later, Trump optimistically proclaimed that he "would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter."</div>
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Trump's projections drew fire — as do all of his statements. These statements, however, caused inordinate faux heartburn among commentators, who shouted that Trump was weighing dollars against lives and deciding in favor of dollars. </div>
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The hashtag #NotDyingForWallStreet began trending on Twitter, followed by the hashtag #DieForTheDow. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted: "My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable. We will not put a dollar figure on human life. ... No one should be talking about social darwinism for the sake of the stock market." Presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden said, "I don't agree with the notion that somehow it's OK ... to let people die."<br />
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That, of course, was not Trump's suggestion. Trump was merely pointing out — quite correctly — that since the federal government has now taken the unprecedented and justifiable action of completely shutting down the American economy, to the tune of millions of lost jobs and the greatest quarterly economic decline in recorded history, we must also have a plan to end this situation. </div>
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The economy cannot remain shuttered indefinitely; the federal government cannot engage in endless cash expenditures on the basis of treasuries nobody is buying.</div>
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Nor is the economy merely Wall Street. The vast majority of those who will lose their jobs are not day traders but workers. Small companies are more likely to go under than large ones. The economy isn't an abstraction. It's the real lives of hundreds of millions of American citizens, and costs to those Americans must be weighed in the balance.</div>
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That's not controversial. That's a simple fact. Public policy is the craft of weighing risks and rewards, and policymakers do it every day. It's just that this time, the stakes are the highest they have ever been.</div>
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<span class="column--highlighted-text">The biggest problem is that we lack the data to answer the question. </span>How many lives will be lost if we take heavy social measures after how many weeks? Moderate social measures? What will be the concomitant economic gain or loss? How many additional ICU beds and ventilators will we need to make available in order to clear the flattened curve such that we do not experience excess deaths due to lack of equipment, a la Italy?</div>
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Our goal should be to move from the Chinese model — total lockdown — to the South Korean model — heavy testing, contact investigations and social distancing. In order to accomplish that, we need to flatten the curve and stop the spread, allowing us to reset. How long will that take?</div>
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We're not going to have answers until some time passes — until we test more, until the outcomes of cases are made certain. </div>
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But we can certainly construct the formulas that should allow us to calculate possible outcomes as new data comes in, and that should allow us to collectively commit to actions directed at certain outcomes. We require a formula from the government. That's the transparency the markets need, that the American people need. </div>
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<br />Marc Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369794230480788959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58198566097795352.post-63673670844303620562020-03-29T03:31:00.000+01:002020-03-29T03:33:56.624+01:00MEANINGLESS METRIC - Bloomberg Newsfrom the Opinion page of Bloomberg News Service<br />
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Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Is an ‘Almost Meaningless’ Metric</h1>
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We need more complete, coordinated data to know when it's safe to reopen the U.S. economy.</div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="(Bloomberg Opinion) -- It doesn’t matter that the United States surpassed China this week in reported Covid-19 cases because those numbers (83,507 and 81,782 respectively as of March 26) don’t tell us how many people actually became infected in either country. Nor do they tell us how fast the disease is spreading, since only a tiny portion of the population in the United States has been tested." data-reactid="12" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- It doesn’t matter that the United States surpassed China this week in reported Covid-19 cases because those numbers (83,507 and 81,782 respectively as of March 26) don’t tell us how many people actually became infected in either country. Nor do they tell us how fast the disease is spreading, since only a tiny portion of the population in the United States has been tested.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="“The numbers are almost meaningless,” says Steve Goodman, a professor of epidemiology at Stanford University. There’s a huge reservoir of people who have mild cases, and would not likely seek testing, he says. The rate of increase in positive results reflect a mixed-up combination of increased testing rates and spread of the virus." data-reactid="13" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
“The numbers are almost meaningless,” says Steve Goodman, a professor of epidemiology at Stanford University. There’s a huge reservoir of people who have mild cases, and would not likely seek testing, he says. The rate of increase in positive results reflect a mixed-up combination of increased testing rates and spread of the virus.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="We will need more complete data, smarter data and more coordinated data to communicate something meaningful about the extent of Covid-19 in the United States, how many people are likely to die, which hospitals are likely to be swamped and whether drastic changes in the way Americans live will start to slow down the spread of the virus." data-reactid="14" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
We will need more complete data, smarter data and more coordinated data to communicate something meaningful about the extent of Covid-19 in the United States, how many people are likely to die, which hospitals are likely to be swamped and whether drastic changes in the way Americans live will start to slow down the spread of the virus.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="With a population of 1.5 billion people, China’s some 80,000 cases look like a rounding error, says Nigam Shah, an assistant professor of biomedical statistics at Stanford. And India’s claim of some 754 cases probably reflects a severe lack of tests —&nbsp;not that the disease there is still so rare. The positive tests say little about how many people are dying or will die, since most cases are mild." data-reactid="15" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
With a population of 1.5 billion people, China’s some 80,000 cases look like a rounding error, says Nigam Shah, an assistant professor of biomedical statistics at Stanford. And India’s claim of some 754 cases probably reflects a severe lack of tests — not that the disease there is still so rare. The positive tests say little about how many people are dying or will die, since most cases are mild.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="What should we be watching instead? One possibility is hospitalizations. That idea was put forward by statisticians Jacob Steinhardt, an assistant professor from UC Berkeley, and Steve Yadlowsky, a graduate student at Stanford who specializes in analyzing health care data. They argue that rate of increase in hospitalizations could reflect the growth of the disease without being distorted by changes in the testing rate." data-reactid="16" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
What should we be watching instead? One possibility is hospitalizations. That idea was put forward by statisticians Jacob Steinhardt, an assistant professor from UC Berkeley, and Steve Yadlowsky, a graduate student at Stanford who specializes in analyzing health care data. They argue that rate of increase in hospitalizations could reflect the growth of the disease without being distorted by changes in the testing rate.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Measuring death rates can eventually track the speed with which Covid-19 is spreading —&nbsp;as deaths represent a fraction of cases. But there’s a lag of some three weeks between infection and death. Hospitalizations give an intermediate point, as Steinhardt and Yadlowsky explain: They estimate that it takes between 11 and 14 days for someone to get sick enough to show up at the hospital. Rates of increase in Covid-19 patients admitted to the ICU can provide additional useful data." data-reactid="17" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Measuring death rates can eventually track the speed with which Covid-19 is spreading — as deaths represent a fraction of cases. But there’s a lag of some three weeks between infection and death. Hospitalizations give an intermediate point, as Steinhardt and Yadlowsky explain: They estimate that it takes between 11 and 14 days for someone to get sick enough to show up at the hospital. Rates of increase in Covid-19 patients admitted to the ICU can provide additional useful data.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="These numbers might not accurately reflect the growth of the disease, however, if the hospitals or their ICUs become overwhelmed, start turning people away or raise the threshold for how sick you have to be to be admitted." data-reactid="18" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
These numbers might not accurately reflect the growth of the disease, however, if the hospitals or their ICUs become overwhelmed, start turning people away or raise the threshold for how sick you have to be to be admitted.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="But collecting this kind of data can help prevent that from happening, said Stanford’s Shah." data-reactid="19" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
But collecting this kind of data can help prevent that from happening, said Stanford’s Shah.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="If we all behave responsibly, he says, then we can turn what would have been a hospital capacity problem into a logistics problem. Once you have a handle on the rate of new Covid-19 patients admitted to hospitals and ICUs, you can start to forecast how many more will arrive in coming days." data-reactid="20" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
If we all behave responsibly, he says, then we can turn what would have been a hospital capacity problem into a logistics problem. Once you have a handle on the rate of new Covid-19 patients admitted to hospitals and ICUs, you can start to forecast how many more will arrive in coming days.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Stanford’s Goodman said that he’s confident scientists will eventually collect the data we need to understand this pandemic and how it’s playing out in the United States. “Right now we are floundering in a sea of ignorance about who is infected and the fate of people who are infected,” he says." data-reactid="21" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Stanford’s Goodman said that he’s confident scientists will eventually collect the data we need to understand this pandemic and how it’s playing out in the United States. “Right now we are floundering in a sea of ignorance about who is infected and the fate of people who are infected,” he says.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Though death rate figures of around 1% have been tossed around, Goodman says he’s skeptical that anyone knows the death rate of this disease since we don’t know the true rates of infection." data-reactid="22" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Though death rate figures of around 1% have been tossed around, Goodman says he’s skeptical that anyone knows the death rate of this disease since we don’t know the true rates of infection.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="And we can’t identify the most vulnerable groups. “There’s this delusion being disseminated that it’s all about age,” he says. He thinks that since 95% of deaths to date in New York City were of people who had pre-existing conditions, this is the bigger risk factor. But since age is a risk factor for many of those conditions, the two are correlated." data-reactid="23" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
And we can’t identify the most vulnerable groups. “There’s this delusion being disseminated that it’s all about age,” he says. He thinks that since 95% of deaths to date in New York City were of people who had pre-existing conditions, this is the bigger risk factor. But since age is a risk factor for many of those conditions, the two are correlated.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="He could figure it out if he could get data on pre-existing conditions broken down by age, but says the New York health department won’t release that data. It matters a lot, he says, since we’re shaping policies around who is most vulnerable. We should find out who they are. They should know who they are." data-reactid="24" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
He could figure it out if he could get data on pre-existing conditions broken down by age, but says the New York health department won’t release that data. It matters a lot, he says, since we’re shaping policies around who is most vulnerable. We should find out who they are. They should know who they are.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Some other useful data could easily be collected at testing sites. As doctors Farzad Mostashari and Ezekiel Emanuel pointed out last week in STATnews, health departments should tally not just positives but total tests, and record demographic and symptom information on all the test takers. Much of that isn’t collected or coordinated." data-reactid="25" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Some other useful data could easily be collected at testing sites. As doctors Farzad Mostashari and Ezekiel Emanuel pointed out last week in STATnews, health departments should tally not just positives but total tests, and record demographic and symptom information on all the test takers. Much of that isn’t collected or coordinated.</div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Random sampling would help too, agree both Shah and Goodman, to estimate the number of mild or asymptomatic cases and get at the true total. And then there’s the promise of widespread antibody testing, which could reveal how many people in a given sample had been infected in the past." data-reactid="30" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Random sampling would help too, agree both Shah and Goodman, to estimate the number of mild or asymptomatic cases and get at the true total. And then there’s the promise of widespread antibody testing, which could reveal how many people in a given sample had been infected in the past.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="With attention to the right kinds of data, scientists can soon assess whether lockdowns and social distancing efforts are slowing the rate of spread in the United States. Any dent we’ve made in new infections should start to show up in data on hospital admissions in a week or two." data-reactid="31" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
With attention to the right kinds of data, scientists can soon assess whether lockdowns and social distancing efforts are slowing the rate of spread in the United States. Any dent we’ve made in new infections should start to show up in data on hospital admissions in a week or two.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Trump promised Americans we could ease up on restrictions by Easter, while most scientists would like to wait until they can base such changes on evidence. Goodman says at this point, figuring out what to do next is like building an airplane in the air. In a later phase of the pandemic, we might be able to focus more on mass testing and quarantining people known to be sick or exposed. We probably can’t responsibly stop lockdowns by Easter, but we may know enough by then to start to think about the timing and nature of an exit strategy." data-reactid="32" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Trump promised Americans we could ease up on restrictions by Easter, while most scientists would like to wait until they can base such changes on evidence. Goodman says at this point, figuring out what to do next is like building an airplane in the air. In a later phase of the pandemic, we might be able to focus more on mass testing and quarantining people known to be sick or exposed. We probably can’t responsibly stop lockdowns by Easter, but we may know enough by then to start to think about the timing and nature of an exit strategy.</div>
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This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Faye Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. She has written for the Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Psychology Today, Science and other publications. She has a degree in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology." data-reactid="34" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Faye Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. She has written for the Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Psychology Today, Science and other publications. She has a degree in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology.</div>
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Give Neil Ferguson a break. Nearly two weeks ago Mr. Ferguson, an epidemiologist with Imperial College London, issued a report on Covid-19. Much of the public attention focused on his worst-case projection that there might as many as 2.2 million American and 510,000 British deaths. Fewer paid attention to the caveat that this was “unlikely,” and based on the assumption that nothing was done to control it. </div>
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The report was one reason that led Prime Minister Boris Johnson to change policy and lock Britain down. Under the Imperial College model, the projection was that the steps Mr. Johnson had been taking would cut the number of projected deaths in half but still leave about a quarter million British dead.</div>
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Now Mr. Ferguson has clarified his estimates. He told Parliament this week that he now reckons the number of deaths in the U.K. “would be unlikely to exceed 20,000”—and that many would be older people who would have died from other maladies this year. With the measures now in place, he believes Britain’s health service won’t be overwhelmed.</div>
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Critics are bashing him for the revisions, but not so fast. Mr. Ferguson didn’t change his model so much as adjust for new circumstances. In particular he believes that Covid-19 is more transmissible than he previously had thought—but because strong measures had been implemented, deaths would be far lower than his worst-case scenario.</div>
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There’s a warning here about science and journalism. Surely if we hope to neutralize a pandemic we don’t fully understand, we need to encourage a culture in which scientists feel able to adapt and clarify with new evidence. Scientists would also help themselves if, in explaining their findings, they would be more candid about the assumptions and variables.</div>
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This goes double for the press. It’s no secret that the press’s reputation has taken a credibility hit in this crisis. Nor is it any secret why: Instead of a presentation of what we know and don’t, too often the focus has been political scapegoating or sensationalizing. </div>
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This week on “CBS This Morning,” U.S. Surgeon-General Jerome Adams complained about a press that runs with projections “based on worst-case scenarios.” He was talking about ventilators, but his point applies across the board. Deborah Birx, coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, said the same regarding apocalyptic forecasts not backed by data about hospitals having to issue Do Not Resuscitate orders. </div>
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Lockdowns, closures: How is each US state handling coronavirus?</h1>
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Some states are taking sweeping action, while others are taking a limited approach. Here's a breakdown state by state.</div>
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The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/united-states.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;">United States</a> has seen a rapid increase of coronavirus cases over the past week, going from roughly 1,000 to well over 46,000 as of March 23, according to Johns Hopkins University. That is largely due to the ramp-up of testing across the country. </div>
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The US government, especially the administration of President Donald Trump, was criticised for a slow response, but has ramped up action in recent days, easing restrictions on testing vaccines and passing <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/trump-admin-send-checks-americans-200317161855947.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;">benefit packages for workers</a>, employers and international corporations.</div>
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The White House has also recommended limiting gatherings to 10 people, among other guidelines that were issued with frank urgency but that are not mandatory. </div>
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But the states of the US have significant powers to handle the crisis, with many adopting similar approaches, including school and public business closures, while others tackle the issue by giving power to local officials.</div>
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How has each state reacted? </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Alabama Governor Kay Ivey </span><a href="https://governor.alabama.gov/newsroom/2020/03/state-of-emergency-coronavirus-covid-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">issued</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency on March 13 and said that all public schools would be closed from March 18 to April 6. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy </span><a href="https://gov.alaska.gov/newsroom/2020/03/16/governor-issues-second-covid-19-health-mandate-signs-covid-19-legislation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">on March 16 that state-run libraries, museums and archives will be closed through the end of March, and he ordered boarding school programmes to send students home.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Doug Ducey alongside Superintendent Kathy Hoffman announced the closure of Arizona schools on March 13. Schools will be closed from March 16 through March 27. The closure does not affect childcare centres. Ducey also announced the cancelation of events with 50 or more people.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">However, Arizona hasn't adopted an aggressive approach to the spread of coronavirus, with the governor garnering </span><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/03/18/coronavirus-arizona-prevention-efforts-robert-heidt-doug-ducey-mayors/2871765001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">criticism</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> for not closing bars, restaurants and businesses. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">A coalition of labour and community organisations, including some of the state's largest unions, </span><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/03/16/arizona-governor-doug-ducey-takes-less-aggressive-approach-coronavirus-covid-19/5055430002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">called</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> on Ducey to "act more boldly and swiftly to protect working families across the state".</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Several counties across the state have </span><a href="https://www.azfamily.com/news/continuing_coverage/coronavirus_coverage/arizona-cities-counties-declare-state-of-emergency-to-prevent-spread/article_2e75e940-68a6-11ea-846a-f3334f380ad6.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">taken</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> their own measures - including closing businesses where people gather. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Hutchinson </span><a href="http://arkansas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> schools to close on March 17 through March 27, thanks to a preplanned spring holiday. </span></div>
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Newsom on March 19 <a href="https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">ordered</a> all 40 million Californians to stay home, venturing outside only for essential jobs, errands and some exercise. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Newsom </span><a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/03/04/governor-newsom-declares-state-of-emergency-to-help-state-prepare-for-broader-spread-of-covid-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">a state of emergency on March 4, saying "protect consumers against price gouging, allow for health care workers to come from out of state to assist at health care facilities, and give health care facilities the flexibility to plan and adapt to accommodate incoming patients." </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 17, Newsom announced that </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/17/newsom-schools-likely-to-remain-closed-through-summer-1267579" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">schools</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">, which were ordered closed last week, would likely not reopen for the school year. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Colorado Governor Jared Polis followed other states in </span><a href="https://www.cpr.org/2020/03/16/polis-considering-statewide-closure-of-bars-restaurants-gyms-and-theaters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">prohibiting</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> on-site dining at eateries and bars in Colorado, while still allowing takeout service, effective the morning of March 1. Up to five customers will be allowed inside at any one time to pick up orders, but they must maintain 1.8m distance.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 18, Polis </span><a href="https://www.cpr.org/2020/03/18/polis-closes-all-of-colorados-schools-until-at-least-april-17/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all in-person schooling to end until at least April 17. He also banned crowds of more than 10 people.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, in a joint statement with the governors of New York and New Jersey, announced that bars, restaurants and cinemas will close on March 16.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> "If you have any options at all, stay home," Lamont said. "If you're over 60, 70, stay home."</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 15, Lamont </span><a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Lamont-orders-all-Connecticut-schools-closed-15133136.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all public schools to close until at least March 31. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 18, after the state recorded its first death from the virus, the order was </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"><a href="https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-updates-0318-20200318-kna3blejebg4rh6z24rsfapymq-story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;">extended</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">to include places of public amusement, including malls, bowling alleys and amusement parks.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Delaware Governor John Carney on March 16 </span><a href="https://news.delaware.gov/2020/03/18/governor-carney-issues-second-update-to-emergency-declaration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all restaurants and bars to reduce service to carryout and delivery.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"Delawareans should continue to support these businesses, and their workers, by ordering takeout or delivery," Carney </span><a href="https://6abc.com/health/del-limits-restaurants-to-take-out-delivery;-bans-gatherings-of-50%20-people/6018782/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The state has also </span><a href="https://news.delaware.gov/2020/03/13/governor-carney-directs-two-week-closure-of-delaware-public-schools/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> schools to close for two weeks, beginning, March 16. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px;">These measures came as an amendment to Carney's original state of emergency, which was declared on March 12.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The Florida Department of Education </span><a href="https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2020/03/13/florida-department-education-orders-schools-close-over-coronavirus/5046470002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all public schools closed as of March 16 until March 30, which was later extended to April 15. Governor Ron DeSantis has </span><a href="https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/gov-desantis-wants-all-of-floridas-colleges-to-go-to-remote-learning-for-rest-of-spring-semester" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">urged</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">public universities to finish their courses online.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">DeSantis </span><a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241265686.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all bars and nightclubs across Florida to close as of 5pm local on March 17 for the next 30 days, while restricting restaurant occupancy to 50 percent and ordering that patrons should be separated by a distance of at least 1.8 metres. The governor said that bars that serve food can remain open.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Brian Kemp </span><a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/kemp-orders-all-public-schools-georgia-closed-through-end-march/Alpzcxpd6xN8f2TGySOyzM/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">all schools will close from March 18 through the end of the month, with some localities stopping classroom instruction on March 16.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The state has yet to close businesses, but some cities, notably Atlanta, have </span><a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/atlanta-mayor-closes-restaurants-clubs-various-other-gathering-spots/gHQ32g3PPLEIY9mAq8VmLM/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">restaurants, bars and other businesses where people gather as of March 19. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Kemp declared a public health emergency on March 14, with the state </span><a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/second-coronavirus-patient-arrives-georgia-special-quarantine-site/wd3FbOD7MhZaQpxdmmRA5J/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">setting up</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">mobile housing units for people who need to be quarantined but can't stay in their homes. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor David Ige </span><a href="https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/03/18/live-governor-discuss-latest-efforts-stem-spread-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all bars and clubs in the state on March 17, while telling restaurants to only order takeout food. Public attractions, state libraries and parks have also been closed. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Brad Little </span><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/governor-signs-proactive-emergency-declaration-to-further-prevent-coronavirus-spread-in-idaho/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">signed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a "proactive emergency declaration" on March 13, when no cases were confirmed. As of March 17, there were seven confirmed cases.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 18, Little announced the state was adopting federal guidelines, which urge people not to gather in groups of more than 10. He has also advised residents not to eat at restaurants.</span> </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"Given the circumstances we have now, we need to do all we can to escalate awareness and preparedness," Little </span><a href="https://apnews.com/a1b19c7c80cb873c736e6565a95abaee" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> during a March 15 press conference. "Prepare for the worst-case scenario, but we should also de-escalate alarmism - and that is critical."</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 20, Governor JB Pritzker issued a statewide "stay-at-home" order, effective March 21 to April 7, making Illinois the third state to enact the measure.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Under the order, all non-essentials businesses will be closed and residents are told to stay home, but are still permitted to go to the grocery store, pharmacy, doctors office and perform other necessary tasks. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"We don't know yet all the steps we're going to have to take to get this virus under control," Pritzker said at a news conference, adding that the state "would rise to this occasion".</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 13, Governor JB Pritzker </span><a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/13/coronavirus-governor-jb-pritzer-illinois-schools-closing-covid-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all public and private schools, kindergarten through grade 12, to close until March 30. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">All bars and restaurants with dine-in service were </span><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-illinois-20200316-pisinqlypbbgrjjovxfx4hdvme-story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> to close to the public at the end of business hours on March 16 until at least March 30, Governor Pritzker announced.</span></div>
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On March 16, in an executive order, Pritzker had also limited all crowd sizes to under 50, applying specifically to fitness centers, bowling alleys, private clubs and theatres, according to the Chicago Tribune.<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 16, Governor Eric Holcomb </span><a href="https://fox59.com/news/indiana-governor-signs-executive-order-on-covid-19-response/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> restaurants, bars and nightclubs through the month, following the state's first coronavirus-linked death.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The governor's office also </span><a href="https://calendar.in.gov/site/gov/event/gov-holcomb-announces-more-steps-to-slow-the-spread-of-covid-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> that as of March 15, 273 public school districts have closed or moved instruction online. There are 16 more public school districts working with the state education department to plan their next move.</span></div>
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Holcomb announced on March 20 the state would move its primary from May 2 to June 2 in response to the virus. </div>
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The governor issued a shelter in place order, effective at midnight on March 24. The order will last until April 6.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Kim Reynolds </span><a href="https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Gov-Reynolds-orders-restaurants-bars-gyms-theaters-to-close-at-noon-Tuesday-568862771.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> bars, eateries and other facilities such as gyms to close for two weeks on March 17. Restaurants will be able to continue delivery and pick-up services, in line with other states.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Gatherings of 10 or more are also banned, and Reynolds </span><a href="https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/gov-reynolds-recommends-iowa-schools-close-for-four-weeks-will-hold-a-press" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">recommended</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> schools close for four weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kansas</span></h2>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Kansas Governor Laura Kelly banned gatherings of 50 or more on March 16 for two months as local officials began ordering certain businesses to close.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The next day, Kansas became the first state in the US, </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/18/817650302/coronavirus-kansas-becomes-1st-state-to-end-school-year-but-may-not-be-last" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">according</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> to NPR, to </span><a href="https://governor.kansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EO-20-07-Executed.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">end</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">K-12 classes for the remainder of the school year. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Kansas has yet to ban dine-in services at restaurants and bars, but the governor says further measures are to be expected.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"I don't think that we are finished putting in place strategies to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus," Kelly said during a statehouse news conference.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, who </span><a href="https://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=GovernorBeshear&prId=91" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">a state of emergency on March 6, announced statewide </span><a href="https://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=GovernorBeshear&prId=94" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closures</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">of bars and restaurants on March 16, along with the state's first death as a result of the virus.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">All schools are </span><a href="https://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=GovernorBeshear&prId=91" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> until at least April 6, with hospitals directed to postpone elective procedures.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The Kentucky Derby, an important horse racing event, has been </span><a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/kentucky-derby/2020/03/16/kentucky-derby-2020-postponed-because-coronavirus-pandemic/5056481002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">postponed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> until September 5. It was originally scheduled for May 2.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards </span><a href="https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/2411" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> on March 16 all restaurants and bars to close while still allowing for delivery and takeout, and he limited gatherings to 50 or less people. The order also closed casinos and cinemas.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Edwards </span><a href="https://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/Proclamations/2020/27-JBE-2020-Public-Health-Emergency-COVID-19-Supplement.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">schools through April 13 on March 13, one of the longest initial closures in the US.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Edwards issued a statewide stay at home order on March 22, citing Louisiana's status as having one of the fasted growing infection rates in the world, according to a study from the University of Louisiana at <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Lafayette study. </span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Maine Governor Janet Mills announced a state of emergency on March 15. Three days later, Mills </span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-takes-further-steps-respond-covid-19-protect-health-and-safety-maine-people" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">banned </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">gatherings of more than 10 people in the state. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Bars and restaurants were ordered to end dine-in services, and non-essential businesses were urged to close. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Maryland, along with Virginia and the District of Columbia, </span><a href="https://governor.maryland.gov/2020/03/16/governor-hogan-orders-closure-of-bars-and-restaurants-announces-unprecedented-public-health-surge-to-combat-covid-19-crisis/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> strict closures on public spaces such as bars, restaurants, nightclubs and cinemas on March 16, with restaurants offering only takeout food.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">All public schools in the region were closed as of March 16.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has also ordered that the state's casinos and racetracks be </span><a href="https://governor.maryland.gov/2020/03/15/governor-hogan-issues-emergency-order-to-close-all-maryland-casinos-racetracks-and-simulcast-betting-facilities-to-prevent-the-spread-of-covid-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> for the foreseeable future. Gatherings of over 50 people have also been suspended.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Hogan issued a "shelter in place" order on March 23, urging residents not to go outside unless absolutely necessary. He also ordered all non-essential businesses to close by 5PM, local time.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker </span><a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-baker-declares-state-of-emergency-to-support-commonwealths-response-to-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency on March 10. He then </span><a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/baker-polito-administration-announces-emergency-actions-to-address-covid-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">limited </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">gatherings to 25 people on March 15 and closed bars and restaurants on March 17, effective until April 6.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">There is currently a three-week school closure in the state for all public schools, with residential and day schools for special-needs students unaffected.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Massachusetts has also </span><a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/covid-19-hand-sanitizer-guidance" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">authorised</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> pharmacies to create and sell hand sanitiser over the counter, and the state has ordered hospitals to cancel non-essential elective procedures, among other measures.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Massachusetts is considered to have adopted one of the most aggressive responses to the epidemic.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has closed all nonessential public spaces, limiting groups to 50 or less, and </span><a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90640-521763--,00.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> bars and restaurants to close except for takeout and delivery services as of March 16. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Whitmer announced a stay-at-home order for Michigan on March 23, effective at 12:01AM on March 24 banning all public gatherings and keeping non-essential workers from going to their jobs. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">Whitmer, on March 12, </span><a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90640-521560--,00.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;"> the closure of all K-12 public schools until April 6.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ordered schools to close on March 15 and restaurants and bars to close as of 5pm March 17, along with other public venues such as gyms, effective through March 27.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Delivery and pickup services are allowed to continue, in line with other states.</span></div>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">"We need to stop congregating", Walz </span><a href="https://kbjr6.com/2020/03/16/minnesota-governor-orders-partial-closures-of-bars-restaurants/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;"> after calling for the closures.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Mike Parson declared a state of emergency in Missouri on March 13, and ordered the closure of all casinos on March 17.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">As of March 18, there was no statewide order for the closure of restaurants and bars, but several counties had </span><a href="https://www.kmov.com/news/bars-and-restaurants-in-st-louis-region-to-close-for/article_5b5842d8-687d-11ea-a467-9f010f61181b.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">imposed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> the measure. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Schools were also not closed statewide, although 445 of the state's 550 public schools had closed as of March 17, Parson </span><a href="https://www.newstribune.com/news/missouri/story/2020/mar/18/missouri-governor-offers-updates-coronavirus-response/821068/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">told</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> reporters. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Montana Governor Steve Bullock ordered a state of emergency on March 12. Three days later, he </span><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/Pressroom/governor-bullock-directs-the-closure-of-public-k-12-schools-for-two-weeks-strongly-recommends-social-distancing-measures-to-slow-the-spread-of-covid-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> schools to close through March 27. Visits to nursing homes have also been limited, and the governor strongly recommended gatherings be limited to 50 people or less.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Bullock has not </span><a href="https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/bars-pubs-wineries-and-casinos-ordered-closed-in-yellowstone-county/article_9e496f6c-eb70-5c7b-9459-eb5b0f9b9873.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">issued</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> statewide closures of bars and restaurants, but many counties have issued these orders.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Montana is a rural, sparsely-populated state. However, coronavirus cases have been documented in several counties.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts limited gatherings to 10 people or less March 16, but </span><a href="https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/governor-lowers-public-event-limit-to-people-in-nebraska/article_b026cf5f-1f12-5ac7-8d64-07181da9aded.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> that businesses can remain open. Ricketts said restaurants and bars may face further limitations to takeout and delivery service in the coming days.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"It is not a law enforcement action," Ricketts </span><a href="https://governor.nebraska.gov/press/gov-ricketts-reminds-nebraskans-cdc-guidance-limiting-gatherings-ten-people" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> in a statement on March 16. "It's going to take individual action from all of us to make this work."</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced a state of emergency on March 12. He later ordered that all K-12 schools </span><a href="http://gov.nv.gov/News/Press/2020/Governor_Sisolak_Updates_Public_on_State_Action_and_Guidance_Regarding_COVID-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">close</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> on March 16 through April 6, with an expansion of the closures possible.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Major casinos and hotels in Las Vegas </span><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/nevada-casinos-closing-for-30-days-following-state-order-1984236/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> the indefinite suspension of operations until further notice on March 17.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Sisolak has said that all non-essential services in the state should close, and gatherings and crowded events should be avoided or postponed. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"I am telling non-essential businesses you have two choices," he </span><a href="http://gov.nv.gov/News/Press/2020/Governor_Sisolak_Announces_COVID-19_Risk_Mitigation_Initiatives/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> in a news conference on March 17. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"Find a way to service your customers through delivery, drive-through, curbside pickup or front-door pickup - or close your doors."</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Chris Sununu </span><a href="https://www.governor.nh.gov/news-media/press-2020/2020313-eo-2020-04.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency in New Hampshire on March 13. Schools were </span><a href="https://www.governor.nh.gov/news-media/press-2020/20200315-emergency-order-1.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">closed for three weeks starting on March 16, and transitioned to remote education.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The state has also banned gatherings of 50 or more people as of Monday, and has </span><a href="https://www.governor.nh.gov/news-media/press-2020/20200316-covid-10-businesses.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ended</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> dining in eateries.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">In a joint statement with the governors of New York and Connecticut, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy </span><a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-lack-federal-direction-governor-cuomo-governor-murphy-and-governor-lamont-announce" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> that bars, restaurants and cinemas will close as of March 16. The states also limited recreational and social gatherings to 50 people. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Murphy, who </span><a href="https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/nj-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus-concerns.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency on March 9, also </span><a href="https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/approved/20200316c.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">all schools to close by March 18, ordering all in-person university courses to cease.</span></div>
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New Jersey's governor ordered on March 21 that all non-essential retail businesses close their stores and almost all state residents stay home to curb the spread of the coronavirus. He exempt healthcare and food industry workers. The order also banned all gatherings including weddings and parties.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">New Mexico Health Secretary Kathy Kunkle </span><a href="https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2020/03/15/health-secretary-to-amend-public-health-order-adding-new-restrictions-to-public-gatherings/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> on March 15 that she amended a previous public health emergency order to drastically limit public gatherings.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The new regulations, which went into effect the next day, limit bars and eateries to 50 percent of their seating capacity. Similar to cases in other states, all occupied tables must be at least six feet (1.8m) apart.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Gatherings of 100 people or more are prohibited. Casinos and horse tracks in the state will also be closed.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Public schools were </span><a href="https://www.krqe.com/health/coronavirus-new-mexico/aps-to-hold-news-conference-amid-growing-concerns-about-the-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> for three weeks starting March 16.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Officials had declared a public health emergency on March 11.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">New Rochelle, to the north of New York City, has seen the most significant outbreak of coronavirus on the East Coast.</span></div>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">At least 380 cases of the state's roughly 1,374 infections were </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;"><a href="https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/county-county-breakdown-positive-cases" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;">found</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">in Westchester County, where New Rochelle is located, as of March 18. Many of the early cases were connected to a congregant at the Young Israel synagogue who attended services and events while being unknowingly infected.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Roy Cooper on March 17 </span><a href="https://governor.nc.gov/news/governor-cooper-declares-state-emergency-respond-coronavirus-covid-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> that all bars and restaurants will close in North Carolina, while keeping takeout and delivery operations open. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The declaration prompted the state's lieutenant governor to say Cooper did not have the authority to impose such a restriction. A spokesman for Cooper's office responded, accusing the number-two state official of creating "a</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> chaotic situation in the middle of a pandemic".</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The state has also closed schools for two weeks starting March 16, six days after declaring a state of emergency. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"Closing schools now will give us time for further understanding of COVID-19 and its effects on our state", Cooper said after signing the executive order to close schools. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum </span><a href="https://www.governor.nd.gov/news/updated-burgum-declares-state-emergency-response-coronavirus-k-12-guidance-issued" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency on March 13 and </span><a href="https://www.governor.nd.gov/news/burgum-orders-k-12-schools-close-one-week-effort-slow-spread-covid-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">two days later that K-12 schools will shut down for a week.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Burgum said the state of emergency will allow the state to issue guidelines that follow those of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including urging residents not to gather in groups larger than 50. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Mike DeWine </span><a href="https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/home/news-releases-news-you-can-use/governor-dewine-orders-ohio-bars-restaurants-to-close" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all bars and dine-in eateries in Ohio from 9pm onward on March 15, allowing for restaurants with carry-out and delivery options to continue operation.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Should there be lines for takeout orders, customers will need to remain 1.8m apart, Gatherings of more than 50 people have been </span><a href="https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/dd504af3-ae2c-4d2e-b2bd-02c1a3beed89/Director's%20Order-%20Amended%20Mass%20Gathering%203.17.20%20(1).pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CONVERT_TO=url&CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE.Z18_M1HGGIK0N0JO00QO9DDDDM3000-dd504af3-ae2c-4d2e-b2bd-02c1a3beed89-n3FI0mY" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">banned</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Schools have also been </span><a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/03/15/ohio-governor-says-school-closure-might-last-for-rest-of-academic-year/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> for at least three weeks, with DeWine saying the order may be extended.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">DeWine issued a shelter in place order on March 22, urging residents not to leave their homes unless absolutely necessary. The order also closed all non-essential businesses. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, who faced </span><a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/oklahoma-governor-criticized-after-family-night-out-amid-coronavirus-national-emergency/5OT7JMLYTRGB5L2ANFM2FBQTVI/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">criticism</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> for tweeting a photo of himself and his family at a crowded restaurant on Saturday, </span><a href="https://www.news9.com/story/41897477/gov-stitt-declares-state-of-emergency-for-all-77-oklahoma-counties" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">a state of emergency on March 15.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The executive order encourages state government agencies to establish work-from-home policies, </span><a href="https://oklahoman.com/article/5657708/coronavirus-in-oklahoma-stitt-declares-state-of-emergency" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">according</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> to local media.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Kate Brown on March 16 </span><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/newsroom/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=36192" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> the closure of bars and restaurants to all service except takeout across the state, as well as limiting gatherings to 25 people and less. The order became effective the following day.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Oregon schools closed on March 15 to coincide with preplanned holidays, and were to remain closed until at least April 28.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Tom Wolf ordered K-12 public schools to close for two weeks starting on March 16. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">He initially </span><a href="https://www.pa.gov/guides/responding-to-covid-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> all restaurants and bars in the counties of Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery, where most of the state's major population centres are found, to close their dine-in facilities for two weeks, but later extended the order statewide. The governor has also strongly urged non-essential businesses - such as recreation and entertainment facilities - to close. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Six days later, Raimondo </span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/16/metro/raimondo-give-update-ri-coronavirus-numbers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> that dine-in service will end at all bars and restaurants as of March 17, until at least March 30. As with other states, takeout services would remain an option.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Raimondo </span><a href="https://www.wpri.com/health/coronavirus/march-18-rhode-island-coronavirus-update/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> schools until April 3, with many expected to offer remote learning. She has recommended that gatherings of 25 or more be banned. </span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster </span><a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/health/covid19/sc-gov-mcmaster-declares-state-of-emergency-after-facing-pressure/article_17a98868-6543-11ea-a278-1392ed052275.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency on March 13, followed by the March 14</span><a href="https://www.wyff4.com/article/sc-gov-health-officials-to-hold-briefing-about-covid-19/31625551#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">cancelling</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">of public schools through the month of March.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Restaurant dining rooms will also be closed, as of March 18, McMaster </span><a href="https://www.wyff4.com/article/south-carolina-governor-to-give-update-on-covid-19-at-4-pm/31703298" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">. Takeout and delivery will still be available, in line with measures taken by other states.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem ordered on March 13 that schools close for at least a week, extending the order for another week on March 17. She has also ordered non-essential personnel in state government to work from home.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Noem has </span><a href="https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/17/live-3-noem-gives-coronavirus-update-after-meeting-sioux-falls-medical-providers/5066856002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> the restaurant and bar closures are not currently needed in the state, because instances of community spread have not yet been confirmed. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">South Dakota State University has </span><a href="https://www.sdstate.edu/safety-security/emergency-management/covid-19-response" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">extended</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> its spring holiday through March 23, when all classes will be temporarily moved online. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, who </span><a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2020/3/12/gov--bill-lee-issues-executive-order-declaring-state-of-emergency-in-response-to-covid-19.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency on March 12, urged schools on March 16 to close by the end of the week and remain closed through the end of March. However, Lee </span><a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2020/3/16/governor-lee-issues-statement-regarding-statewide-school-closure.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">his office doesn't have the power to force schools to close, leaving the decision up to local officials.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Bars, restaurants and other public establishments have not yet been ordered to close, however, Lee strongly </span><a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2020/3/13/governor-lee-issues-guidance-for-mass-gatherings--schools-and-state-workforce.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">discouraged</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> groups of more than 250 on March 13. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Certain localities, such as the state capital Nashville, </span><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487689-nashville-mayor-to-ask-for-closure-of-bars-limits-on-restaurants" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">agreed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> to close bars and limit restaurant capacity in line with mandates in other states.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Texas's approach to coronavirus containment is a "patchwork" of local regulations, </span><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/17/experts-say-texas-patchwork-strategy-coronavirus-problem/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">according </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">to statewide media the Texas Tribune.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Greg Abbott </span><a href="https://abc13.com/society/houston-responds-to-rumors-of-bar-and-restaurant-closures/6016925/?fbclid=IwAR3ZEjiV75SvT4T8UijnPJGXGlWx6WgFJKSvGcY5koENp4Z3sP8Ua6R0nrQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> over the weekend that local authorities will make the best decision for their communities, and has so far resisted statewide closures. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">He has, however, implemented restrictions on visitors to elderly care facilities, hospitals, prisons, and daycare centres. Officials have also waived standardised testing requirements for public schools. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Gary Herbert, on March 12, </span><a href="https://governor.utah.gov/2020/03/16/gov-herbert-announces-recommendations-to-help-slow-the-spread-of-novel-coronavirus-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">recommended</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a restriction on public gatherings of 100 people or less, while people saying people over 60 should limit gatherings to under 20 people. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"Today we stopped making decisions based on the hope that things will get better," Herbert said in announcing the voluntary guideline.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">That announcement was followed by a "</span><a href="https://governor.utah.gov/2020/03/13/gov-herbert-announces-two-week-dismissal-of-utahs-public-schools/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">soft closure</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">" of public schools for two weeks that began on March 16. Teachers were given two days to determine how to move classes online.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The governor has yet to mandate that businesses close, but many restaurants have started to offer delivery and carryout services on their own.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Phil Scott </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"><a href="https://governor.vermont.gov/press-release/governor-phil-scott-announces-new-guidance-covid-19-community-mitigation-measures" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;">issued</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">on March 16 a state of emergency and announced statewide closures of bars and restaurants, in line with other states. Delivery and pick-up will continue.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Scott also banned gatherings of 50 or more people and limited venues to operate at 50 percent capacity. Schools were </span><a href="https://governor.vermont.gov/press-release/gov-scott-orders-orderly-closure-vermont-prek-12-schools-week" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">ordered</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> to close by March 18.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">I want Vermonters to know we're continuously evaluating other mitigation steps and we'll continue to communicate those as they are put into place," said Governor Scott. "It's important to remember that in times of crisis, we all need to make sacrifices. But Vermonters, and all Americans, have risen to many challenges before, and this time will be no different."</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Ralph Northam, on March 12, </span><a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/all-releases/2020/march/headline-853537-en.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency in Virginia. The next day, officials </span><a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/all-releases/2020/march/headline-854442-en.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span> </a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">all schools through March 27. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 17, Northam issued an </span><a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/all-releases/2020/march/headline-854500-en.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">order</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> prohibiting more than 10 patrons in restaurants, fitness centres, and theatres at one time.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"I hope that everyone will have the common sense to stay home tonight and in the days ahead," said Northam. "This order will ensure that state and local officials have the tools they need to keep people safe".</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Washington State was the first to experience a significant outbreak of coronavirus, centred mostly on 11 homes for the elderly in early March. On February 29, Governor Jay Inslee </span><a href="https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/proclamations/20-05%20Coronavirus%20(final).pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a state of emergency. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">On March 15, all bars, restaurants, recreational and entertainment facilities were ordered closed for two weeks. Officials also limited gatherings to under 50 people, Inslee </span><a href="https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-statement-statewide-shutdown-restaurants-bars-and-limits-size-gatherings-expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> on March 15.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Inslee had previously called for more restrictions on elderly and assisted living facilities, including limiting the number of visitors, keeping visitors in patient rooms and</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/health/coronavirus-washington-nursing-home-outbreaks/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"> reviewing</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">employees for virus symptoms.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">These regulations will be in place until midnight on April 9. Schools closed March 15, and are expected to open again on April 27.</span></div>
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Trump announced on March 22 the National Guard would be deployed to assist in efforts to contain the virus in Washington State, along with California and New York State. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Jim Justice </span><a href="https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2020/Pages/COVID-19-UPDATE-Gov.-Justice-We-are-trying-to-be-ready-in-every-way-we-can-possibly-be.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">a state of emergency on March 16, although West Virginia was, at the time, the last US state without a confirmed case of coronavirus. The declaration will ease rules on staffing and purchasing, the governor's office explained. The state confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on Tuesday. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Justice has closed schools through March 27. Bars, restaurants and casinos have also been </span><a href="https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2020/Pages/COVID-19-UPDATE-Gov.-Justice-holds-statewide-address-to-discuss-coronavirus-precautions.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">closed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">US Senator Joe Manchin said in a media call that it's "no excuse when you know how vulnerable our state is. If it gets ahold of our state, we don't have healthcare in order to defend ourselves. It could be devastating".</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Tony Evers</span><a href="https://evers.wi.gov/Documents/COVID19/Mass%20Gathering%20FAQ%203.17.20.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;"> announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> on March 16 that bars and restaurants would close and gatherings of 10 or more people would be banned as of March 17, allowing for delivery and takeout.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">"We are seeing community spread of COVID-19 in Wisconsin. This means that there are people who have tested positive who have no exposures to a known case, nor did they travel to a location where there is known community spread," Evers said in a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv9lwwZdtTk&feature=youtu.be" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">news conference</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> announcing the closures. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Governor Mark Gordon and top school officials </span><a href="https://www.kulr8.com/coronavirus/wyoming-gov-mark-gordon-recommends-school-closures-through-april-rd/article_f52e1f70-6712-11ea-95f4-777e71f37af1.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">recommended</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> that schools be closed through at least April 3.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The state "must realise that closing businesses and suspending travel and public events poses a threat to employment and business viability. Our responses to these threats must be focused and measured, and that's what these teams will bring to a changing situation," Gordon </span><a href="https://governor.wyo.gov/media/news-releases/2020-news-releases/governor-gordon-announces-coronavirus-task-forces" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">said</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> in a statement.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The seat of the nation's capital </span><a href="https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/mayormb/publication/attachments/MO-Prohibition-on-Mass-Gatherings-During-Public-Health-Emergency.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">announced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> strict closures on public spaces such as bars, restaurants, nightclubs and cinemas on March 15, offering only takeout food. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">The district also </span><a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/release/during-modified-dc-government-operations-many-services-still-operating" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">suspended</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> public service activities such as street sweeping and is encouraging all government employees to work from home.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;">Mayor Muriel Bowser </span><a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-declares-public-health-emergency" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005079; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0); line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px;">declared</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7 !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important;"> a public health emergency on March 11. All public schools in the region are closed as of March 16.</span></div>
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Here's a thought: While self-quarantining with their families in multimillion-dollar Manhattan co-ops, Wall Street wives ought to have a chat with their Master of the Universe husbands about China, globalism and political correctness. Those are the vectors of their robber-baron wealth.<br />
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Thanks to “globalism” -- i.e., cheap goods from China -- we’ve gotten many wondrous things, for example:<br />
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-- Toothpaste on American shelves <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/us/02toothpaste.html" style="color: red;">made with a poison found in antifreeze</a>.<br />
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-- <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114182073" style="color: red;">Toxic Chinese drywall</a> installed in about 100,000 U.S. homes, emitting noxious fumes that destroyed electrical wiring and metal fixtures and sickened homeowners. Replacement of the drywall, pipes and wiring cost Americans billions of dollars.<br />
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-- Hundreds, possibly thousands, of American dogs killed by melamine-laced <a href="https://time.com/107922/china-pet-food-contamination-recall-video/" style="color: red;">Chinese dog food</a> in 2007.<br />
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-- The loss of about <a href="https://www.dontmovefirewood.org/pest_pathogen/asian-long-horned-beetle-html/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-JLay-Wi6AIVvoVaBR13oQVmEAAYASAAEgKOf_D_BwE" style="color: red;">200,000 beautiful maple trees</a> lining the streets of small New England towns, eaten by Asian long-horned beetles that arrived on Chinese cargo ships in 1996. The U.S. taxpayer spends hundreds of millions of dollars to eradicate the repeated outbreaks that continue to this day, despite promises from the Chinese to do better.<br />
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-- <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971293/" style="color: red;">Viral pandemics</a> -- H1N1 (from China), bird flu (from China), SARS (from China) and now the Wuhan virus (from China).<br />
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Is it really worth paying $3 for a T-shirt at Walmart, rather than $9? The precise reason Chinese goods are so cheap is that they skip the crucial quality-control step.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The media’s reaction to this latest pandemic out of China is to say ... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">LET’S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT: THE CHINESE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Well, like most animal-to-human viruses, this one </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">did</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> originate in China and then spread across the globe when Chinese tourists infected people in other countries. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">As described by Melinda Liu in Smithsonian Magazine, the Chinese wet markets, “often poorly ventilated, with multiple species jammed together -- create ideal conditions for spreading disease through shared water utensils or airborne droplets of blood and other secretions.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">This 2017 article was titled: “</span><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-zero-future-pandemic-180965213/" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic?</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">When the pandemic arrived, at least the World Health Organization leapt to action. </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">First step: Find a cure? Develop a vaccine? Demand protections for the elderly?</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">WHO officials got together and worked on coming up with a new name for the “Wuhan virus” that sounded less Asian. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Next, the WHO put out a “Fact Sheet” to ensure that those with Kung Flu would not be stigmatized. It instructed: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">"DO -- talk about people 'acquiring' or 'contracting' #COVID-19. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">“DON'T -- talk about people 'transmitting COVID-19,' 'infecting others' or “spreading the virus' as it implies intentional transmission & assigns blame.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">As fear of the Chinese virus spread, Gloria Allred brought a lawsuit against a Los Angeles school for sending an Asian student to the school nurse after he coughed in class. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Americans are cowering in their homes. Airlines, restaurants, beaches, ski resorts, professional sports, colleges and stores have been shut down. But we must never violate the fundamental civil right of an Asian to cough in class and refuse to see the nurse! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The New York Times has also been on the racism beat, with these pressing stories: </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">As Chinese Grapple With a New Illness, an Old Stigma Is Revived<br /><br />An Outbreak of Racist Sentiment as Coronavirus Reaches Australia<br /><br />As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Anti-Chinese Sentiment</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">And there’s more! </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Virus Fuels Anti-Chinese Sentiment Overseas<br /><br />Coronavirus Outbreak Risks Reviving Stigma for China</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Wait – here’s another: </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">For a Chinese Traveler, Even Paradise Comes With Prejudice</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">A few weeks ago -- before a trillion dollars in wealth was destroyed by the coronavirus panic and we learned the real disease was racism -- everyone, including the Times, admitted that the virus was brought to Italy by two Chinese tourists. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">“[T]here had not yet been any confirmed cases in Italy," the Times reported, until Jan. 30, “when the government announced the first two cases.” The scientific director of an infectious diseases hospital in Rome identified them: “two Chinese tourists visiting Rome.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The Times buried this fact in an article perversely titled: “Cruise Passengers Are Held at Italian Port in False Alarm Over Coronavirus.” On one hand, a bunch of cruise passengers were inconvenienced for 12 hours; on the other hand, a viral pandemic that could kill millions was introduced to Italy. You write the headline. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Lombardy is the Italian region most devastated by the Wuhan virus. As far back as 2003, a Library of Congress </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257771119_Transnational_activities_of_Chinese_crime_organizations" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">report</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> cited Lombardy as having the highest concentration of Chinese immigrants in Italy. Our media refuses to tell us this fact today -- or any day. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">No hard feelings, but why not relieve people’s minds? West Virginians who have no contact with anyone visiting from China can rest easy! No need to stockpile toilet paper. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">While we’re at it, when will the media and the “medical community” get around to informing Americans that this latest Chinese pandemic poses little danger to anyone under 70 without certain chronic medical conditions? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Italy has been ravaged by the Wuhan virus, but the average age of the dead is 81. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">According to the dire estimates of the </span><a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Imperial College of London</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> -- whose assessment we are following -- excepting those with underlying medical conditions, the new coronavirus is far less deadly than the seasonal flu to anyone under 60 years old. It’s no worse than the 2017-18 flu season for those in their 60s. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">But it's five to 10 times more deadly than the regular flu for those in their 70s and 80s, respectively. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">We ought to surround old folks homes with the National Guard and call it a day. It would probably save more lives and wouldn’t destroy the economy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">But there’s no time to think about saving lives. The important thing is to stamp out the idea that a virus that originated in China has anything to do with China. </span><br />
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<br />Marc Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369794230480788959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58198566097795352.post-77303399477335402092020-03-24T13:33:00.002+00:002020-03-24T13:34:44.000+00:00THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE by RICH LOWERY<br />
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This Is Not Sustainable</h1>
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The nationwide coronavirus shutdowns over the past two weeks have ground parts of the country to a halt. We have probably never before in our history seen so much economic activity vaporize so quickly — within days or even hours. The Great Depression and the panics of the 19th century are the only possible analogues.</div>
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Goldman Sachs is forecasting a 24 percent drop in quarterly GDP. Morgan Stanley is anticipating a 30 percent decline.</div>
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These are the top-line numbers of a vastation that will throw millions out of work, stress families and blight personal lives, destroy the dreams of small-business owners, and bankrupt industries. This is a tale of human misery, not just of declines in the stock market and in GDP.</div>
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The federal government can alleviate some of the damage, but even the biggest, best-designed stimulus bill is no substitute for shuttered storefronts and factories. And how many times can Washington pass $2 trillion bills? <span style="font-size: 1.125rem;">No, this is not sustainable, nor will people stand for it except as a temporary expedient. President Donald Trump is already expressing impatience with his own guidance against gatherings of more than 10 people for the next 15 days.</span></div>
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If that sentiment is understandable, it’d be foolish to give up on the lockdowns before they have much of a chance to, in the cliché of the hour, flatten the curve.</div>
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And it’s important to remember that the disease itself is imposing an economic cost. It would have caused a recession regardless of government policy. Would New York City restaurants really be full if it weren’t for the Andrew Cuomo–ordered lockdown? Would people be eager to get on airplanes? To book a cruise? To see a Broadway show? To go to Disneyland?</div>
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If the disease had been left unchecked, it would have exacted an enormous price, in lives of the infected, in the breakdown of the hospital system, in the follow-on effects on people ill with conditions that would have gone untreated. No matter how bad today’s lockdowns are, imagine if we decided to undertake them at a time when the U.S. already had a million cases and the health-care system was in deep crisis.<span style="font-size: 1.125rem;">The answer to our current situation doesn’t require downplaying COVID-19, or going about business as usual and hoping for the best. The advantage of the lockdowns is that they make every other public-policy option look cautious and inexpensive by comparison. What can be more radical than telling tens of millions of Americans to shelter in place?</span></div>
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Our aim should be to shift from the blunderbuss solution of mass shutdowns to rifle-shot remedies, on the model of what South Korea has done with its widespread testing (although it has much more favorable conditions as a smaller, more cohesive country with an outbreak centered on one church).</div>
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We should focus on the production of tests, ventilators, masks, and other protective gear on an industrial scale. Whatever the government has to spend or do to get it done should happen — just as if we were on a wartime footing.</div>
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The first priority should obviously be backstopping the hospital system and protecting front-line medical workers. But, as economists Paul Romer and Alan M. Garber argue, we need to widen out from there to create a system of population-wide testing and the distribution of protective gear to workers interacting with the public to protect against the spread, while allowing for ordinary work.</div>
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This regimen would depend on innovation — cheaper, faster tests, etc. — but that is surely within our power with enough will and resources.</div>
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Then, we could begin to return to normal with much less risk, even if vulnerable populations and metropolitan hot spots still require extraordinary precautions.</div>
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Whatever path we take will be costly and have its downsides. All we can know with certainty is that the current path is untenable.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Me and my girl took a nine mile walk on Sunday... It is getting harder and harder to remember what day it is when everyday is pretty much the same... Wake up, do not work, amuse oneself doing something, go to sleep, Wake up next day, repeat</td></tr>
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