Today's Top Stories: April 2, 2020
Channel: My Daily Grind News
Date: 2020-04-02

Today's Top Stories: April 2, 2020. US surpasses 5,000 deaths due to COVID-19, jobless claims soar to 6.6 million (another record by 2x), McConnell & Pelosi spar over new fiscal stimulus.


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Coronavirus update:
April 2, 2020 COVID-19 pandemic map

962,977 infected, up from 905,279 yesterday.
49,180 deaths, up from 45,497 yesterday.
Relevant COVID-19 stories:

    Pentagon Confirms It’s Seeking 100,000 Body Bags in Virus Crisis
    Trump’s new coronavirus argument: 2 million people are being saved

Economy Update:
April 2, 2020 DJIA stock chart
https://www.thestreet.com/quote/djia/dow-jones-industrial-average-today.html

DJIA is, surprisingly, UP near 300 points, at 21k. I say surprising because the US just broke another record for jobless claims – 6.6 million, over 2x the record we set two weeks ago (3.28 million jobless claims for the cycle ending March 15).
Relevant Economy stories:

    Fed Temporarily Eases Capital Requirements for Big Banks – let’s pour some gas on this fire!
    Jobless Claims Soar to 6.6 Million, Shatter Another Record – is this winning?

Politics:

Editorial (from yesterday): Things are quiet on the politics front. One wonders what’s brewing in the president’s mind:

Will there even BE an election in November? Will he call it off? Postpone it?

Or will it be held with a shelter-in-place in force? How many will show up to vote?

McConnell Urges Pelosi to Abandon Effort to Use Coronavirus Relief Bill to Achieve Unrelated Policy Goals
Relevant Politics stories:

    Pentagon Confirms It’s Seeking 100,000 Body Bags in Virus Crisis
    Gov. Newsom Coronavirus Update: ‘We are at a Completely Different Place Than the State of New York’

Feel good video of the day:

My Corona by Chris Mann – it’s a COVID-19 parody of “My Sharona.”
Best COVID-19 parody song!
Offbeat Story of the Day:

Covidiot Scourge Continues To Plague Country | The Smoking Gun

    APRIL 1–A Missouri miscreant yesterday walked around a discount store and coughed “on the doors and into the air” before writing “COVID 19” in the condensation on a freezer door, police charge.

    As detailed in a probable cause statement, John Swaller, 33, was arrested following his antics inside a Dollar Tree store near his home in Cuba, a city about 85 miles southwest of St. Louis.

    Swaller is a convicted felon whose rap sheet includes assault, theft, burglary, and receiving stolen property convictions.

    According to cops, after Swaller entered the Dollar Tree around 2:30 PM, he “walked around the store” and “continued to cough on the doors and into the air,” prompting customers to lodge complaints with store employees. 

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