Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

NightlyPoe said:

SvennoJ said:

So the tax payers have to fund domestic production of goods? Why not simply raise import taxes, at least to fund that stimulus package. Sounds like a bailout to me.

$2 billion is peanuts.  But it is a start.

BTW, was there no White House briefing today?

No clue, I haven't been following any briefings anymore. Not much new information there.

I've been racing today and playing around with Google Earth. It's pretty impressive how far they've come

https://earth.google.com/web/@43.73538233,7.42306323,1.01619111a,428.4208191d,35y,12.0730221h,72.59323257t,-0r

And everything all over the world says "temporarily closed" !