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It’s a good thing Northeastern hasn’t closed their dorms like BC has. I bet at least 40% of students there are actually working 9-5 jobs.
Update: all Northeastern students have just been told, according to my sources, that they have 3 days to vacate all on-campus housing. It’ll be hard enough for students from California and Texas to book flights home with 3 days notice, but I have absolutely no idea what they expect international students to do, especially those from Europe.
And again, roughly half of the student body are currently working 9-5 jobs. Those will have to find some place to live in MA or they will have to quit.
Massachusetts has shut all bars restaurant and nightclubs ...down to takeout and delivery only. Schools are closed, gatherings over 25 are banned even from retail stores, and some towns have shut down playgrounds and all public spaces.
New Orleans will be hit especially hard because the two biggest industries are oil and gas and tourism. I do think that President Trump is trying his best to help oil and gas by purchasing more oil for the strategic petroleum reserve. Some oil executives are against a bailout like steel and auto because it often comes with strings attached, though I think Trump can be trusted with a bailout since its not the plant workers fault people are being quarantined, especially since China is now the world's largest oil consumer and much of China is still on lockdown.
New Orleans restaurants and bars have to reduce their capacity by 50%. I'm not sure about casinos, most seem to be operating like normal. The city is also a major cruise port and that industry is shut down now.
The majority of Louisiana's cases are in the New Orleans area, many of them linked to a retirement facility where some residents have gone on a recent cruise, though not out of the local port, most likely the Grand Princess. I already canceled my flight next week out of New Orleans airport both because of the area is seeing cases and because of air travel in general, as many airport employees in other places, including an LAX police officer have tested positive. A TSA agent in Orlando too, imagine all the people they patted down.
West Virginia is the last state with no cases so the impact there is minimal, and coal mining can still continue. I'm actually traveling to West Virginia next week, driving not flying.
I wonder how Tennessee is dealing with both the virus and the aftermath of the tornados I'm sure many of the FEMA camps are very crowded.
Massachusetts has shut all bars restaurant and nightclubs ...down to takeout and delivery only. Schools are closed, gatherings over 25 are banned even from retail stores, and some towns have shut down playgrounds and all public spaces.
Pennsylvania did the same. Literally everything is closed, even liquor stores now, which I find odd.
Even state parks and arboretums, another odd one.
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