Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)

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Then there is the Corporate Criminal element.  File this one under "Bullshitters Gonna Bullshit."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/busin...virus.html

Big Business Pledged Gentler Capitalism. It’s Not Happening in a Pandemic.

C.E.O.s who signed a celebrated Business Roundtable document, promising to elevate worker interests, are now resorting to furloughs.

Take, for example, Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain, which last year earned $1.2 billion. It has begun furloughing most of its American workers, jeopardizing their access to health care, even as the company paid out more than $160 million in quarterly dividends and pursued a raise for its chief executive, Arne M. Sorenson.