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  • Some businesses that are staying very busy during this ongoing Corona virus pandemic.

  • Companies that make cleaning products like phone and hand sanitizers, medical equipment and supply organizations, toilet paper manufacturers and food delivery, APS and their employees.

  • But scores of businesses air seeing major losses as the disease spreads malls, air closed, factories are shut down, flights have been cancelled.

  • People and affected countries have been told to stay home without consumers out in about spending money.

  • And without businesses making products and hiring people, the economy has effectively ground to a halt.

  • The United States Federal Reserve, the central bank of the country, says the Corona virus pandemic is causing tremendous hardship.

  • So in addition to dropping interest rates to zero, which encourages people and companies to take loans, the Fed is buying bonds, opening new credit facilities, starting a new lending program.

  • In a nutshell, it's using all of its tools to try to limit the economic damage from Cove in 19.

  • Meanwhile, the U.

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  • Congress has been debating a massive stimulus bill, a package of government spending that's intended to stimulate the economy.

  • It could include loans to companies that are in trouble, more spending on health care and direct payments to American taxpayers.

  • It's cost could be as high as $2 trillion congressional Republicans and Democrats generally agree that the stimulus is needed.

  • But they've had some disagreements over what exactly the money should be spent on and how it should be given out.

  • And that's delayed the bill from passing.

  • In the last couple weeks, many Americans went from not even hearing about the Corona virus.

  • Having President Trump recommend the closing of schools or social distancing.

  • You need not more than 10 of us in a room at the same time.

  • And so people are rightfully wondering, What does it mean?

  • What happens next?

  • Could we see quarantines or force curfews?

  • Experts say the federal government cannot legally or operationally put the United States under a complete lock down or quarantine.

  • What the federal government can do is monitor or close borders and limit how people can get into and move around the United States as well as detain individuals upon entry if they are believed to have been exposed to the virus.

  • Our Constitution does not have an on off switch for pandemics, and there would be challenges in every district in every courtroom to protect individual rights and our governmental structure.

  • America's front line for responding to an epidemic really resides in the hundreds of local and state and tribal and territorial health authorities.

  • Because of that, we're seeing lots of things going on in different states.

  • But there's no unified approach, partly because the federal government has been relatively quiet on some of these issues.

  • Another reason is because our government structure is so fragmented.

  • You know, different states need different things.

  • That is the role of the federal government and national leadership, and it is lacking.

  • It is up to state and local governments to regulate, encourage, discourage human behavior.

  • The constitution was set up to not only have a strong central authority, but also to give the states their own authority.

  • The federal government can make recommendations about what kind of standards they want for public health authorities in a pandemic.

  • But those public health authorities reside with state governments and include the rights, a quarantine and isolate and the power to set curfews because of a local public health threat.

  • 12th trivia.

  • The region, known as Lap Land, includes a part of which of these nations Greenland, Finland, Iceland or Scotland.

  • Parts of Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland are located in Lapland.

  • And it's in Lapland that an extraordinary light show was recently visible courtesy of Mother Nature, the aurora borealis, or northern lights, twisted, danced and glowed and hues of green.

  • Though the phenomenon can be seen any time of the year, late winter or early spring during the overnight hours is said to be the best time to see them here.

  • Besides being really party to look at, there is some science Behind these wondrous waves described is one of Earth's greatest light shows.

  • An Aurora is one of the most fascinating and beautiful, naturally occurring phenomena.

  • You might know it as the northern lights, but it's technically called the award Bori Alice in the Northern Hemisphere.

  • In the Aurora, Australia's or Southern Lights in the Southern Hemisphere, this phenomenon occurs above the magnetic poles in the northern and southern hemispheres they form when gases particles in the earth's atmosphere collide with charged particles released from the sun.

  • Electrons and protons from the sun are blown toward the earth by the solar wind.

  • As these air carried towards Earth, most of them are deflected by Earth's magnetic field.

  • However, the magnetic field is weaker at the polls, allowing some of the particles to funnel into the earth's atmosphere.

  • The vibrant colors produced are determined by the type of gases that are colliding.

  • The result is a brilliant display of the common green and yellow, less common blue and violet, even rare reds painting the night sky in ribbons, arcs or shooting.

  • Raise oxygen produces green and red light, while nitrogen gives off blue and purple.

  • The bus time of year to view the light show is during the winter months, when the nights are longer under a cloud free sky away from light pollution.

  • Quick, think of an organized sport.

  • Okay, guess what?

  • It's been affected in some way by the spread of Corona virus.

  • Americans in at least 12 states have been given orders to stay at home.

  • This accounts for about 1/4 of the population, since some of those states are the most populated But the sports fans among them are wondering.

  • Okay, we have all this time to watch sports but no sports to watch.

  • So some are turning to marble racing as in marble racing.

  • Who gets into it's pretty serious.

  • Now People see it and experience it like for the real sport.

  • Blow my mind.

  • We did it in the backyard of my grandfather's house on a yellow billed baba bronze, and I start helping no on.

  • Most people with autism have a pre op patients so wanting they only want to repeat on.

  • That was one of his activities when Yeller started filming marble runs, just simple marble runs, and it was quite successful.

  • So played way.

  • Want to use a new element and more like competition, Andre sings.

  • There's a whole community online, and they make means and they enjoy their Selves.

  • Sometimes we are surprised how many posts and this'll go through to follow because they're so big now, nudge there off the wall that actually sends yellow forward slightly and right, coming undone for urgent here on lap number six.

  • The decision we made to have have people from everywhere we have contact and to communicate with people all over the world.

  • Take a second congratulations.

  • It's sucking you in another world.

  • Three Off a war and everything in the human dimension is the magic.

  • Another alternative sport we're following today is hungry, hungry hippos.

  • Life sized edition.

  • Forget about the old school board game.

  • A nursing home in Wales United Kingdom came up with a creative way to keep its residents busy.

  • The object of the game is to capture as many colored balls as possible, using what looks like baskets on broomsticks.

  • But it's safe to say that a lot of laughter and a lot of smiles were captured.

  • Here is Well, what a great idea.

  • And it boggles the mind why more people don't take the trouble to connect.

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  • Get a clue and Scrabble together a board game when they're born.

  • It's an easy, low risk operation that stimulates the cranium across multiple.

  • Scategory is in this pursuit of the tribunal, and you can got see why not?

  • You know, person is sorry when enjoying this game of life.

  • All right.

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