Where are you @Gus6 ?
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The House bill, however, would provide paid leave for workers if they have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, if they are caring for a family member who has it or if they are caring for a child or another dependent because of a school or care facility closing.
The bill would provide those who qualify with two-thirds of their average monthly earnings, with a cap of $4,000, for up to 12 weeks. The benefits could be paid retroactively and would be available for those who had to leave work starting Jan. 19.
But there’s a catch: The benefit would apply only to companies with fewer than 500 employees. Anyone employed by a company larger than that — which is more than half of all American workers — would be ineligible.
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Barcelona, España
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Truer words could NOT have been spoken.
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Comparison of obituaries in an Italian newspaper …
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And what about the self employed? What about the people working in gig economy? … there are a lot of people that fall through the holes of the safety net.
Those policies are local policies… what effect does the global economy (other countries that don’t have these policies) have on the local economy?
No matter how you twist and turn it, there are going to be very bad economic effects from all of this. The last financial crisis came at a time when things were going relatively good but now we’ve barely recovered from the 2008 crash, we’re dealing with Brexit, US/China/EU trade wars and a slowing economy for the last couple years. I am seriously bracing for impact.
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@anon28032772 easy there brother, one at a time. Help me out here with some of the research. Gas lighting not allowed …
The bill would also provide for a similar refundable credit against the self-employment tax for up to 10 days. It would cover 100% of a self-employed individual’s sick-leave equivalent amount, or 67% of the individual’s sick-leave equivalent amount if they are taking care of a sick family member, or taking care of a child following the child’s school closing. The sick-leave equivalent amount would be the lesser of average daily self-employment income, or $511/day to care for the self-employed individual, or $200/day to care for a sick family member or child following a school closing. (See Division G of the Bill, Section 7002.) Self-employed individuals could receive a family leave credit for as many as 50 days multiplied by the lesser of $200 or their average self-employment income. (See Division G of the Bill, Section 7004.)
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I can’t answer as to what other countries are doing, only my own.
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Your hostility in this matter, is not helping anything, or any point(s) you are trying to make @anon28032772. Why don’t you do this, how about you go up, and read ALL of my posts, and show me where I said or even hinted, that this was NOT going to be very bad economically before making statements like this.
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I’m not hostile, don’t take it so personal. No matter how you, people, whoever twists and turns things. Whether it’s you or our health minister or Trump or whoever else. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone, it’s complete chaos out there.
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In Denmark the government will try to support all the business which is locked down, so they all can survive.
Same with the whole workforce.
It will cost a lot for sure, but when we come back to normal everyone can continue as normal again, our country to.
But not every country can do this I know 
But this virus really has showing peoples ugly egoistic faces… What a world 
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Hehe, @anon28032772 exactly who is “You People” ?? I don’t think scaremongering benefits anyone in general, nor on this thread. YES, things are bad, and they will probably get worse. We have not even yet BEGUN to realize the human loss, economic loss, and residual effects from this yet, but we can’t we’re still in the MIDDLE of it. Who or what exactly is being “twisted and turned” ??
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Well at least there’s TWO countries we know of that will be trying to do this, and there has to be more. Not all.
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Day 4 of no tp, paper towels @:
Walmart
Adlis
Lidel
Home depo
Lowes
Save More
Save lots
Big Lots
Family Dollar
and I just had some one around my age at cvs (lost a bag of cough drops somewhere between the store and car, hope someone really needed it) approach me as even the pharmacy was shuttered but employees were behind it (could see them) but were not dispensing drugs etc… (wonder what they were doing?) ask me for help, as her mom was sick and the dr said mylanta for her raspy lungs…
I emptied my hand sanizer all over my hands and yes even face, before I got back in my car and now home. Roads are empty but people are staying parked at the stores.
Be super safe out there… you never know. Just got out from a hot shower… I can’t repeat how scary it is out…
I keep at least a months supply of paper and plastic goods at my house… but if I can pick up spares… I try. However its half the month gone now and yeps keeping an eye out on things.
btw a shout out to @daath for the hand santizer recipe…
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I stopped in on both of my elderly neighbors to make sure they didn’t need anything, and they had actually already stocked up, including medications, so hats off to the Greatest Generation. I still have a lot of public and commercial traffic, so haven’t noticed any ghost town-ing, not yet anyway. Was up in Western PA last Friday, and saw a fairly full parking lot at a Walmart Super Store, but no fighting, no issues, just people getting whatever was on their lists from what I could tell. I’m quite sure there WERE shortages, but it was busy, yet civil.
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most of who was out today was the Mexicans… all I heard thru a few stores was Spanish…
So were heated, choppy short sentences… but I dont translate too well what was said.
Tone of voice tho… yeah… we have a large spanish population here.
You can even see them jumping the train tracks here.
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@anon84779643 come up to Delaware. We’re not out, at least yet. Shelves were looking thin, but not barren, at least at the Giant Food that I went to. I think up here at least, the Costco’s and BJ’s warehouse stores are getting hit the hardest, guessing number 1 LZ for the hoarding hoards, but the local stores in communities still have some. That may change, not sure.
it’s just nuts… I am not planning on going out for the next 2 weeks…
I have plenty of tabs to learn and wood begging for a knife 
exception: post office tomorrow… will report back lmao
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