Coronavirus states of emergency could help autocrat wannabes in democracies consolidate power, but the story varies from Washington to Jerusalem to Budapest.
Coronavirus states of emergency could help autocrat wannabes in democracies consolidate power, but the story varies from Washington to Jerusalem to Budapest.
A factory that makes uniforms for the Phillies, Yankees, and their rivals switched production to make 10,000 protective medical masks and gowns a day, which it plans to donate to hospitals.
A factory that makes uniforms for the Phillies, Yankees, and their rivals switched production to make 10,000 protective medical masks and gowns a day, which it plans to donate to hospitals.
“I need people to see that this is real and that it’s touching us,” Nicole Walden-Hooks, 49, of Blackwood told me on Tuesday. “Many of us have had it and don’t know that that’s what we had.”
Chris McNabb, CEO of 1,300-worker, Berwyn-based Dell Boomi, for 10 years has hooked employers up with cloud and remote communications data services so people can work from home or the field. He says clients who bought cloud services early have been able to transition more smoothly.
As South Korea has shown, the key to flattening the coronavirus curve and restarting the economy is for the government to help hospitals get the equipment they need and to massively test.
A coronavirus shutdown brings smog-free skies, cleaner streams and traffic-free streets. But will it inspire us to fight climate change when it's over?
As the rest of Philadelphia raced around stocking up on toilet paper, food, and liquor in preparation to self isolate, Shalena “Diva” Broaster and Odell Johnson faced each other and pledged to love each other through whatever comes.
After two weeks of warnings, why is there still no rubbing alcohol at our local ShopRite? Why is the Acme in the next neighborhood so low on chicken, and Giant’s paper-goods aisle so barren?
After 9/11, we rallied together in parks and squares to hold vigils for the victims, hugging strangers as a way of expressing solidarity. This time, there are no warm embraces. We can only demonstrate our social connectedness by coming together in the same place, six feet apart.
“If you get somebody infected in your facility, you have to close the facility,” said an executive from a nationwide trucking and warehouse company. “Our number one priority is to protect our people so we can keep operating.”
