Reporter. Just like everyone else and shes looking for answers thankfully with the help of many expect a few of them. Thank you bruce is not life as we know it hot. In this together our new web series. The coronavirus isnt just a health issue its an economic one as well. All around the world shops restaurants and factories have been forced to close to help fights the spread of the disease millions of jobs have been lost in retail hospitality and even the industrial sector. Businesses that are on the brink of collapse in many countries the powerful aviation and cost sectors. Turn to their governments for financial assistance. As cooper it giants cry out for help should taxpayers themselves struggling to come to the rescue. Who will foot the bill for those massive government aid packages. The coronavirus looks set to make the world a poor a place governments face the daunting task of deciding who to prioritize. Welcome to this coverage 900. 00 special on robots in berlin its nice to have you along with us so there can only a crisis brought by coronavirus has driven businesses of all sizes as well as individuals to our governments to help them through even once proud corporations have found themselves begging for band outs paid for by the state vast numbers of jobs dependent on the survival of businesses some governments and now all that stands between their citizens and destitution. A drive through in the age of coronavirus rather than fast food theyre queuing for unemployment forms. Last month alone more than 20000000 people in america lost their jobs as locked and froze the economy that has rapidly pushed many to the brink of poverty federal Food Bank Programs such as this one in las vegas are helping people just about get by. On the point. Of being. In europe governments in france germany italy spain the u. K. And elsewhere across the continent have boosted income subsidies for workers laid off due to the pandemic spending historically large sums in the process. For all those who need assistance during this period stated for those not going to work for companies will be extended and reinforced such measures have never been seen before and they already protect more than 8000000 employees and many of our companies. Germany alone has already provided around 1. 00 trillion in financial supporters including loans of 50000000000. 00 to freelancers and Small Businesses alone. But the biggest tool of all available to governments is nationalization when companies in critical sectors are on the brink governments may step in and take a stake for example German Airline has requested Government Intervention and some support may be forthcoming. There are limits to what a state can do by virtue of the fact that money is a finite resource however the pandemic has taught us so far that legally speaking there is little to stop states doing whatever they feel is necessary. Lets speak to gabrielle felber my hes an economist and president of the kill institute for the World Economy thanks a lot for joining us just explain to us how involved governments are actually even allowed to get in corporations well there are no formal limits that would. Forbit will prohibit. Compered countries which they think shares in call but if there is a rules of course on the european level that regulate state aid but there is no such thing as a. To do so there are a lot of corporations state are involved in from utility. Producing companies to the Airline Companies through rerolled Postal Services and so on and so we already have many sectors in many countries states when a lot of equity you mentioned and lines and you mentioned your ip theres been some pushback from other airlines against frances decision to help support afghans k l n what are the arguments against the state getting involved with companies. Look last month and heres we had a lot of discussion around china and china subsidy dies inc and Chinese Companies who would then compete internationally and skew the Playing Field in their favor and expected the same arguments on all prague towards state interventions in europe if france or chairman or any other country subsidizes its own airline theres a risk that this leads to a an even Playing Field and disadvantages competitors like ryan air or or others who dont have the support of. Of a state because the state 8 will at the and influence the boring costs. Of those companies it will also possibly influence the valuation of those companies on the on the stock exchanges but this money isnt coming without Strings Attached there are conditions on a lot of these ballots also the things that the governments pushing for from companies in return for the money well essentially 2 things that governments tend to insist on in europe 1st management masta forgo bonus payments during the time that the governments are invested in their companies and the companies are not allowed to pay and it didnt these are these are the rules that are most often required and then. In many cases. Also government delegates on the boards of these companies so that the. United states reserves the right to influence management decisions in the companies that they invest in so i think good news for all taxpayers do they benefit from that tax dollars going into these major corporations. This is a very hard question so you know economic history is very skeptical about that in the past. Governments that played a big role in corporations typically didnt do very well the states are not that beth and the prisoners but in the Current Crisis if a company like of towns france goes past needs to be restructured this caused the lead to bigger costs for the taxpayer than if the government invests in a in a temporary fashion it must be very clear that governments should get out of these investments as soon as i can European Commission is talking about 6 years this is already a very generous. But in the long run clearly government money invested in those corporations is typically not well invested in the short run that might be benefits for the taxpayers well thank you very much for bringing in fuel expertise on this prophetic gabrial selden my president healthy Keel Institute for the wealth economy thank you. Now stop on the program where you get to ask your questions to our highly knowledgeable science correspondent williams. If you can get the virus 3 your i use how does it reach your lungs to in fact. This is interesting because weve been hearing from the beginning that the eyes are or one possible avenue for the corona virus to enter your body but its still not one that we know much about a couple of new studies however appear to confirm that the eyes can serve as an entry point for sars code to as well as a reservoir for person to person transmission they showed that some cells in the i also carry the receptor that the virus binds to its cold its called a stew thats the the enzyme doorway the virus uses to enter and attack the body and there are tiny ducts between the eyes and the sinuses and tears drain into your nose so an infection in the eye could move from there to your upper respiratory tract and eventually make its way to your lungs. What mechanism determines patients symptoms. Why great variation in symptoms very different people. Some people are asymptomatic others develop life threatening pneumonia some only get diarrhea others have neurological problems some experts even think its associated with lesions on the feet a condition thats being called the show at times it really does seem like were not facing a single new virus but a host of them that all cause different symptoms we still dont know exactly why it 19 can affect different people in such different ways but a few factors definitely play a key roles 2 big ones are how old you are and whether you have previously existing conditions or. Another factor is your sex then theres your blood type it could play a role and factors that are more nebulous like whether you might have had certain vaccinations and of course theres your own individual genetic make up which lies at the heart of everyones personal immune response so there are a lot of things that will be playing a role in symptom variation in coded 19 patients although there are of course going to be trends and similarities and sometimes if you look at large groups of patients at the individual level people just dont react to infections in identical ways. As a science correspondent Derrick Williams if you have got a question to get in touch with if you can leave it as a comment or a post on the you tube channel now to be eligible for state aid the state needs to know that you exist but for the around 2000000000 people around the world working in the socalled informal economy that isnt the case business is that arent registered for taxes all monitored in any way at a government level and not in line for the sort of support formal enterprises are getting as weve been hearing the International Labor organization has warned relative poverty among informal workers put increased more than 50 percent worldwide because of the pandemic some of them are having to work through the crisis despite the risks of their health and thats why governments are being asked to at least ensure they have access to health care and food support for their families. 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