Next wave of U.S. states set to reopen as coronavirus could push jobless rate to 16%

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Source: reuters

NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Another wave of states prepared to ease coronavirus restrictions on U.S. commerce this week, despite health experts warning there is still too little diagnostic testing, while the White House forecast a staggering jump in the nation’s monthly jobless rate.

Colorado, Mississippi, Minnesota, Montana and Tennessee were set to join several other states in reopening businesses without the means to screen systematically for infected people who may be contagious but asymptomatic, and to trace their contacts with others they might have exposed. Many merchants have voiced ambivalence about returning to work absent the prerequisite public health measures authorities have advocated.

“I would stay home if the government encouraged that, but they’re not. They’re saying, ‘Hey, the best thing to do is go back to work, even though it might be risky,’” Royal Rose, 39, owner of a tattoo studio in Greeley, Colorado, told Reuters. Rose said she was reopening her shop after closing a month ago, not because she wants to but because bills are piling up and she feels she has no choice.

Georgia, Oklahoma, Alaska and South Carolina have already forged ahead to restart their economies following weeks of mandatory lockdowns that have thrown nearly one in six American workers out of their jobs. Public health authorities say increasing human interactions and economic activity now - without the means to do so safely - will only backfire, sparking a new surge of infections just as social-distancing measures appear to be bringing coronavirus outbreaks under control.



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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. What do business liability insurance companies say?

[EarthFirst]

5. They're most likely scrambling to rewrite their liability policies... nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. New soap opera this fall: The Dead and the Jobless

If you can't die for capitalism, what good is life?

Make the man rich, die for the man, you're nothing but a headless chicken for dinner anyway.

[Marthe48]

3. Too bad education and the arts aren't "essential"

Working parents are really taking the load.

I was hoping that the states that closed would use the time to think about ways to keep people safe, both employees and customers, and put the ideas in place. But I get the feeling that they closed, and are hoping the big bad virus will just go away. It isn't going to be like that. I am preparing to be masked and gloved for possibly the rest of my life.

traitor has to answer for this.

[DownriverDem]

4. Why?

Because billionaires want to make money and selfish repubs/folks want to shop, eat in restaurants, play golf, go to beaches & get their nails/toes done. Meanwhile numbers are starting up in states like Tennessee. Go for it!

[turbinetree]

6. So the attack on unemployment benefits is getting wider..........

if you refuse to go back to work........then no fucking unemployment benefits............see how this game is being played for wall street and corporations and banks...............meet the expendables it is ..............you ......................

[lark]

7. Nah, it won't backfire, that sounds like something unplanned.

They 100% plan on killing us, the working class and especially lower paid workers. If they come to work, they will get infected and die - means more SS money the rich can steal and another vote potentially for Democrats that they've eliminated. They aren't opening up stock brokerages, cosmetic surgery, even any kind of elective surgery - because those folks earn too much & might be better able to raise attention to the repug murderousness. Those folks also have greater resouces so could just say no where it's very hard for min. wage earners to do that and have a roof over their head.

They WANT a pandemc in full swing in Nov. That way they and their far rw supporters can create chaos and volence and make us risk our lives to vote and if enough show up anyway, riot in full view of the news media so Tangerine Terrorist can declare martial law and stop the elections. It is his only play to retain his stolen office and stay out of jail.

[IronLionZion]

8. When that second wave hits, the standard response will be

"no one could have seen this coming".

[bucolic_frolic]

9. The Fed is printing money to prop assets and keep some bills paid

meanwhile, we're producing 6% less. This means more money chasing fewer goods. Definition of inflation.

Prepare for acute shortages of food at any time.

[LizBeth]

10. I heard Colorado was opening but this morning on my Oregon news, I read Colorado and Nv were

joining Wa, Or, Ca group.