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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 19, 2020
March 19, 2020
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With everybody self quarantining at home, now is probably a good time to remind you that you can get some things done and have a little fun while you're sweating the coronavirus out. For instance you can do stuff you've been putting off:
- Clean out your e-mail inbox.
- Get stuff off your smartphone or put things into your phonebook.
- Update your resume
- Clean out your car's glove box or trunk
- Go through your clothes closet and get rid of the stuff that's too old or no longer fits.
- Or how about using the phone to catch up with friends or loved ones --that call you've been putting off for awhile.
- Do a jigsaw, crossword or other puzzle or play a board game with the kids
- Read a book, see a cable movie or binge-watch a show you've always wanted to
- And your listeners can come up with dozens of others....
Correction: Coronavirus or not... your income tax return will still be due on April 15th... the only thing that's changed is that you don't have to pony up your payment until July 15th if you're struggling.
Meanwhile, over in Japan, a plane left yesterday headed for Athens to bring back the Olympic flame for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The only difference --thanks to the Coronavirus, there was no high-ranking folks from the Tokyo Olympic Committee on board --just a few officials who travelled to Greece last week, who'll accompany the flame on it's trip back to Japan on Friday. Japanese officials still claim the Games will start as planned on July 24.
Speaking of sports, you don't haveta worry about the Coronavirus when you're in the annual Iditarod dog sled race. It's just you and the dogs! The race is over, with Norwegian THOMAS WAERNER coming across the finish line in Nome, Alaska, yesterday around 12:37 am, beating his nearest competitor of the 57 entered by six hours after around a thousand miles on the trail. MITCH SEAVEY’s team pulled in at 6:16 a.m. JESSIE ROYER was third into Nome.
The coronavirus has actually helped the homeless people in Los Angeles, where city officials agreed to let the homeless keep their tents up at all times, instead of just at night.
In LA, there's around 27-thousand folks living on the streets, and normally, the law --city code 56.11-- says you've gotta take down your tent during the day, which during normal times is supposed to cut down on homeless encampments in the city.
If you're cleaning in an attempt to stave off the coronavirus, a new study from the National Institute of Health claims COVID-19 can live on some surfaces for up to three days, including plastic and stainless steel.
The study says the coronavirus is very similar to SARS, and will last for up to one day on cardboard, and up to two or three days on plastic and stainless steel. But on copper, the virus survived just four hours.
And don't think about touching the surfaces right after disinfecting them with aerosols, since the study says the virus lasted for three hours after being sprayed in some cases.
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