Thursday, April 2, 2020

• Us at 216k as of 7am, 245k as of 7pm

• Today a map showed the us where people did and did not isolate and stop moving more than 2 miles. Many on social media were comparing the map to the county-level voting map from2016, of which there is neither correlation nor causation. The as ccurate relationship is that rural areas in the south don't have essential items within 2 miles of individuals homes so they need to travel farther. (See attached map)

• 6.6 million people applied for unemployment this week, bringing the total over the last two weeks to 10 million. Until last month, the worst week for unemployment filings was 695,000 in 1982, during the recession —

• To the best of our knowledge (official unemployment numbers for March won’t come out until Friday, and they won’t properly account for the layoffs in the final week of the month), this is not yet the highest level of actual unemployment in history, with the recent Great Recession and the brief but intense recession of the early 1980s both seeing double-digit unemployment rates. But the high unemployment of those recessions reflected the accretion of months of job losses. This time around, the American job market was, as recently as the second week of March, totally fine. And then it began to unravel at a shocking pace, with huge swaths of the retail, food service, hospitality, and transportation industries shutting down —

• Residents of Laredo, Texas are now legally required to wear some form of covering over their nose and mouth when entering into or inside of any building open to the public — @bradheath

• The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday he doesn't understand why every state hasn't issued stay-at-home orders as novel coronavirus cases continue to surge across the US. — CNN