Articles (Economy)
““You can’t have a good economy when you don’t have customers, when you don’t have workers,” he said.
Hammerhand Coffee, on a corner of Liberty’s main square, has been open throughout for takeaway drinks. The cafe was free to open its doors to customers on Monday morning, but decided against it.
“We’re adhering to the county guidelines, which is 25% capacity, which allows us six people including staff. Which didn’t make sense,” said Lucas Bell, from behind a plastic screen.
Bell wasn’t at all sure reopening business completely was right in any case.”
– The Guardian, America begins to reopen but businesses and customers in no rush to get back.
“The world’s attention has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic for the past couple of months, and rightly so. The global death toll has hit 285,000, the economy is in shambles, and our day-to-day lives are completely transformed. It’s obviously a huge deal.
But as we all focus on that, what other problems are being neglected and growing worse? What sort of collateral damage is the world incurring?
The secondary impacts of Covid-19 — including a possible “hunger pandemic” and “poverty tsunami” — are worth taking seriously. The number of deaths they cause, experts caution, could easily outstrip the number of deaths from Covid-19 itself.
That’s not an argument for taking Covid-19 less seriously, relaxing social distancing, or reopening the economy; in the US, epidemiologists emphasize that we are absolutely not ready to do that safely.”
– Vox, Covid-19 could reverse decades of global progress.
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