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March 23, 2020
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
Trump tweet 9 minutes ago... signals he'll end the shut downs in two weeks.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
March 23, 2020
they cheer this. He sounds and looks just plain crazy
the mocking voice, the head tilt, the smirk, the make up. The words
March 23, 2020
Paying for child care while you provide it at home
By Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff,Updated March 22, 2020, 12:10 p.m.
With public and private schools already shut down, the news that day-care centers would close Monday because of the coronavirus did not surprise Tom Kelly. What stung was the final line of his day-care provider’s e-mail, which told him where he should mail his next check.
The steep bill for child care — $650 a week for Kelly’s toddler and preschooler — must be paid even when the service is not provided because of a public health emergency. The owner of his day care promises to shave costs in the future but didn’t reduce the current bills.
“It feels like we’re not really being met halfway,” said Kelly, noting that his wife, a schoolteacher, was providing child care for their children in their Norwood home. “You’ve got to keep paying. My wife’s doing the work.”
Beyond its threat to public health, the spread of coronavirus is causing countless complications for small businesses and workers. Few are thornier than child care, an area where the income of early educators — often some of the lowest-paid professionals in a community — is dependent on many other parents getting to work.
State officials are trying to strike a balance that is sensitive to both, urging providers and parents to negotiate compromises. The attorney general’s office, which handles consumer complaints, received 58 by Friday, and advised parents to review the contracts they signed with their day-care providers. But that may require them to keep paying for service they aren’t currently receiving.
Paying for child care while you provide it at home
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/22/metro/paying-child-care-while-you-provide-it-home/Paying for child care while you provide it at home
By Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff,Updated March 22, 2020, 12:10 p.m.
With public and private schools already shut down, the news that day-care centers would close Monday because of the coronavirus did not surprise Tom Kelly. What stung was the final line of his day-care provider’s e-mail, which told him where he should mail his next check.
The steep bill for child care — $650 a week for Kelly’s toddler and preschooler — must be paid even when the service is not provided because of a public health emergency. The owner of his day care promises to shave costs in the future but didn’t reduce the current bills.
“It feels like we’re not really being met halfway,” said Kelly, noting that his wife, a schoolteacher, was providing child care for their children in their Norwood home. “You’ve got to keep paying. My wife’s doing the work.”
Beyond its threat to public health, the spread of coronavirus is causing countless complications for small businesses and workers. Few are thornier than child care, an area where the income of early educators — often some of the lowest-paid professionals in a community — is dependent on many other parents getting to work.
State officials are trying to strike a balance that is sensitive to both, urging providers and parents to negotiate compromises. The attorney general’s office, which handles consumer complaints, received 58 by Friday, and advised parents to review the contracts they signed with their day-care providers. But that may require them to keep paying for service they aren’t currently receiving.
March 23, 2020
Nine years.
That’s how long it took Andrew Chau and Bin Chen to take Boba Guys from a pop-up in a Mission ramen shop to a veritable bubble tea empire, with 17 locations in seven different cities, including nine in the Bay Area.
Fifteen days.
That’s how long it took for everything to completely fall apart.
This week, Chau and Chen laid off 400 employees, temporarily shuttered all 17 locations and stopped taking a salary just 15 days after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the United States.
The pair spent recent days projecting how many weeks the business can survive from this point, while still cutting rent checks for vacant buildings, unused utilities and insurance.
“I planned up to a 12-week window,” Chau says. “If we don’t see light at the end of the tunnel in May, we need a loan or something because we’re then screwed. Nobody is going to make it through this if we go all the way through Memorial Day.”
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“I’ve never cried so much,” Chau says. “Letting go of my team...”
He trails off, and makes a concerted effort to finish the interview without going back to that place.
“Most small business owners are American dream owners,” he says, including Chau, a first-generation U.S. citizen. “So many of those are broken and dying right now. It’s beyond my company, it’s a whole sector — burrito places, mom and pop shops, they don’t have the same runway or visibility. What’s causing panic and anxiety is uncertainty.”
Boba Guys founder on what it's like to fire 400 people, shutter 17 locations in a single day
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Boba-Guys-founder-on-what-it-s-like-to-fire-400-15147048.phpNine years.
That’s how long it took Andrew Chau and Bin Chen to take Boba Guys from a pop-up in a Mission ramen shop to a veritable bubble tea empire, with 17 locations in seven different cities, including nine in the Bay Area.
Fifteen days.
That’s how long it took for everything to completely fall apart.
This week, Chau and Chen laid off 400 employees, temporarily shuttered all 17 locations and stopped taking a salary just 15 days after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the United States.
The pair spent recent days projecting how many weeks the business can survive from this point, while still cutting rent checks for vacant buildings, unused utilities and insurance.
“I planned up to a 12-week window,” Chau says. “If we don’t see light at the end of the tunnel in May, we need a loan or something because we’re then screwed. Nobody is going to make it through this if we go all the way through Memorial Day.”
===================
“I’ve never cried so much,” Chau says. “Letting go of my team...”
He trails off, and makes a concerted effort to finish the interview without going back to that place.
“Most small business owners are American dream owners,” he says, including Chau, a first-generation U.S. citizen. “So many of those are broken and dying right now. It’s beyond my company, it’s a whole sector — burrito places, mom and pop shops, they don’t have the same runway or visibility. What’s causing panic and anxiety is uncertainty.”
March 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — With the economy faltering and the political landscape unsettled as the coronavirus death toll climbs, a stark and unavoidable question now confronts President Trump and his advisers: Can he save his campaign for re-election when so much is suddenly going so wrong?
After three years of Republicans’ championing signs of financial prosperity that were to be Mr. Trump’s chief re-election argument, the president has never needed a new message to voters as he does now, not to mention luck. At this point, the president has one clear option for how to proceed politically, and is hoping that an array of factors will break his way.
The option, which he has brazenly pushed in recent days, is to cast himself as a “wartime president” who looks in charge of a nation under siege while his likely Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is largely out of sight hunkered down in Delaware. This gambit, however, requires a rewriting of history — Mr. Trump’s muted approach to the virus early on — and it’s far from clear if many voters will accept the idea of him as a wartime leader.
Then there are other variables that he and his allies hope will fall in their favor: that the outbreak of the virus will slow and, in the warmer months, dissipate; that the states will get it under control; that the federal government’s steps taken so far will flatten the curve; that Mr. Biden and the Democrats will look impotent and inconsequential by comparison; and that enough voters will move past his initial efforts to play down the virus’s dangers.
The great unknown, of course — and the tremendous risk to Mr. Trump’s political fate, no matter what he says or does — is that the human cost, the economic toll, and the longevity and course of the pandemic are all X factors that will most likely play out for months and could be strongly salient if not severe by the time of the November general election.
In perhaps the best-case scenario for Mr. Trump, the patina of a “wartime president” could prove to be influential with casual voters who don’t dig into the details of his belated response to the coronavirus, which included dismissing the criticism of his handling of the threat as a Democratic “hoax” and contributing to a slow start in testing for the virus.
“He is counting on people being so traumatized on a day-to-day basis that they will forget his inaction,” said Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University. “It’s better for him to be a wartime commander in chief than someone who, when the big crisis hit, misread it completely.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/wartime-president-trump-rewrites-history-in-an-election-year/ar-BB11ymOe?ocid=st2
"counting on people being so traumatized on a day-to-day basis that they will forget his inaction"
‘Wartime President’? Trump Rewrites History in an Election YearWASHINGTON — With the economy faltering and the political landscape unsettled as the coronavirus death toll climbs, a stark and unavoidable question now confronts President Trump and his advisers: Can he save his campaign for re-election when so much is suddenly going so wrong?
After three years of Republicans’ championing signs of financial prosperity that were to be Mr. Trump’s chief re-election argument, the president has never needed a new message to voters as he does now, not to mention luck. At this point, the president has one clear option for how to proceed politically, and is hoping that an array of factors will break his way.
The option, which he has brazenly pushed in recent days, is to cast himself as a “wartime president” who looks in charge of a nation under siege while his likely Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is largely out of sight hunkered down in Delaware. This gambit, however, requires a rewriting of history — Mr. Trump’s muted approach to the virus early on — and it’s far from clear if many voters will accept the idea of him as a wartime leader.
Then there are other variables that he and his allies hope will fall in their favor: that the outbreak of the virus will slow and, in the warmer months, dissipate; that the states will get it under control; that the federal government’s steps taken so far will flatten the curve; that Mr. Biden and the Democrats will look impotent and inconsequential by comparison; and that enough voters will move past his initial efforts to play down the virus’s dangers.
The great unknown, of course — and the tremendous risk to Mr. Trump’s political fate, no matter what he says or does — is that the human cost, the economic toll, and the longevity and course of the pandemic are all X factors that will most likely play out for months and could be strongly salient if not severe by the time of the November general election.
In perhaps the best-case scenario for Mr. Trump, the patina of a “wartime president” could prove to be influential with casual voters who don’t dig into the details of his belated response to the coronavirus, which included dismissing the criticism of his handling of the threat as a Democratic “hoax” and contributing to a slow start in testing for the virus.
“He is counting on people being so traumatized on a day-to-day basis that they will forget his inaction,” said Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University. “It’s better for him to be a wartime commander in chief than someone who, when the big crisis hit, misread it completely.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/wartime-president-trump-rewrites-history-in-an-election-year/ar-BB11ymOe?ocid=st2
March 23, 2020
Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
·
3h
President Trump now noting that he isn't being paid to be president and has given away his salary: "Nobody said thank you. Nobody said thank you very much."
He adds, "I ran and everybody knew I was rich person. I built a company and people knew that."
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1241862946139123720
" Trump - isn't being paid to be president and has given away his salary: "Nobody said thank you"
Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
·
3h
President Trump now noting that he isn't being paid to be president and has given away his salary: "Nobody said thank you. Nobody said thank you very much."
He adds, "I ran and everybody knew I was rich person. I built a company and people knew that."
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1241862946139123720
March 23, 2020
cruise lines fly under none US flags to avoid US taxes and employment law. should they get bailouts
Morgan Fairchild Retweeted
Sabrina McDaniel
@Sabrina_McDa
All the major cruise lines are asking for bailouts from the U.S. Government.
Yet, Disney Cruises sails under the Bahamian flag ... Celebrity Cruises under Liberian/Maltese flags & Carnival Cruises under the Panamanian flag - all to avoid U.S. taxes & employment law
https://twitter.com/Sabrina_McDa/status/1241821246213386241
March 22, 2020
market falling off the cliff again. pre mkt opens 5% down (Dow could cross into 17,000s Monday)
where is the bottom?
I haven't sold any investments in my 401K over the last few weeks. wonder if that was wise... just watching it sink.
March 22, 2020
"don't torture yourself with the clown show, enough lies, enough self-congratulation"
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1241745597352357890
March 22, 2020
pre-market trading opens soon, Trump schedules press conferences to manipulate market
I hear he's holding a press conference soon. Why not this morning? He's trying to keep the DOW from cratering rather than any real concern for America
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