And the Business Community in charlotte. What is the state of the Rnc Convention this august . Jim that is a good question because people down here arent sure. One thing we do know is that the president wants a big rally for his acceptance speech. He cant get acceptance speech. He cant get that here, at least right now. They are planning to have the official business of the convention in charlotte. Whether the actual nominations might happen here, it is all up in the air. People are still talking. There are contracts involving the convention and visitors bureau. Even the charlotte hornets, who have the arena and have contracted that. There is still a lot of talking. Host what about the reaction within the Hospitality Industry banking on revenue for the region . Jim the Hospitality Industry is looking at this as a lifeline. No doubt they had a rocky last two or three months, lost business, restaurants boarded up or closed. With the news of the convention leaving, there was one business
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And others where people come to work from and where insisting that its going to be safe but work unsafe to get there were also making some changes this week about exercise and while both france and spain have begun easing lockdown restrictions nonessential shops and factories have been allowed to open in france or the 1st time in 8 weeks the government has that the country into reading green zones depending on infection rates affecting the available freedoms or the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus in spain has fallen to 123 marking a 7 week low where its a rare as a madrid to see how one Business Owner is preparing to reopen. We are at a Mens Clothing shop in the middle of madrid one of the b. C. S. Areas commercial areas that is just getting ready to reopen to the public next week so weve got everything ready weve got the honey ties or we have the gloves we have them last year thats the owner does this in fact in all the garments in order to reopen to the costumers today in
This situation. Since ween 18 days closed down new york. I know it feels like a lifetime. I tell my daughters every day. Only 18 days since everything closed down. 39 days since the first covid case in new york. It feels like a lifetime. Firsts since we have the covid case in the united states. 80 days. Lifechanginge, 80 days, but thats what it has been. When we started this situation that we are still in the midst of, before people get march,ent, the end of the White House Task force was still talking about 1. 5 million to 2. 2 million deaths, ok . Their best Case Scenario with mitigation efforts was 140,000 to 240,000 deaths in the united states, which is breathtaking. For new york, there were a number of models that were put up that we are following. Wasmost frightening Columbia University that said we could have 136,000 people in new york city only who would be hospitalized, not infected. Which the mckinsey model suggested 110,000 people could be hospitalized statewide. We had a se