It's Thursday, April 23rd, 2020. We've got April showers in the District of Columbia.

It's Ramadan. I'm Sean Ramasferrm and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

Mosques are shut down across the world and Muslims are being urged to worship from home.

But in Pakistan, a bunch of prominent moms have urged the faithful to ignore stay-at-home orders.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging the country's regional leaders to hold the line on state home orders.

She told Parliament, let us not squander what we have achieved, except probably in German.

Across Europe and even in Canada, governments are stepping in to at least partially pay the salaries of workers who have been laid off.

And for something different in the United States, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is encouraging states to take the Donald Trump approach

and just declare bankruptcy. He told the conservative radio host, there's not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations.

Democrats, of course, have been pushing pretty hard for more aid to state governments in the pending stimulus package.

McConnell is now calling such aid blue state bailouts.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said McConnell's bankruptcy idea was, quote,

one of the saddest really dumb comments of all time and pointed out that McConnell's home state of Kentucky gets more federal money for services than it contributes,

while New York gives more than it gets. Mitch McConnell is up for re-election in November.

Researchers at Northeastern University have found that putting a nylon stocking over your homemade masks might help keep out the coronavirus.

But evidently, it'll boost your ability to filter out small particles in the air.

And if under that nylon and homemade mask you're sporting jug-a-low face, I have terrible news.

The Insane Clown Posse has canceled its annual gathering of the jug-a-loads for those of you who don't pay attention to clown hip-hop,

jug-a-loads are the devout fans of the Fago drinking Detroit duo, the Insane Clown Posse, aka ICP.

The spirit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ICP said the bottom line is simply that we refuse to risk even one jug-a-low life by hosting a gathering during these troubling times.

We will endure this together as a family and the gathering of the jug-a-loads will return in 2021 stronger, bigger, and better than ever.

The water on my finger with my homies, y'all and everything is obsolete and let's say here my homies call.

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