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Sponsored by Bridge Bank. Be bold. Venture wisely. I'm Deppermack. On today's show, President Trump gets called out for a fake tweet, and Jack Dorsey gets to stick around as Twitter's

CEO. But first, coronavirus hits the gig economy. So there is no bigger economic story right now

than coronavirus, with the stock markets falling 2,000 points at today's open, prompting a 15-minute

trading pause in order to tamp down on some of the panic selling.

At individual workplaces, the worries have manifested themselves more in the form of business travel bans and work-from-home edicts. And that includes at places like Uber and Lyft,

where engineers and managers can now bring their laptops home. But for Uber and Lyft drivers,

it's not that easy. Their options are either to keep

picking up passengers or not getting paid. And that's true for most other so-called gig economy

companies, where drivers and delivery workers are treated as independent contractors rather

than as employees. Obviously, this isn't sitting too well with some of these workers,

particularly since their jobs involve interacting with people who could, in theory, be infected.

And there are only so many chlorock wipes you can buy to wipe down your car.

And I kind of mean that literally.

Those things are becoming golden ticket level rare.

So Uber did announce on Friday that it will compensate drivers for up to 14 days if they're

diagnosed with coronavirus or put

under quarantine. And Lyft is reportedly doing something similar, but those are pretty tiny

concessions affecting a minuscule number of people. Lots of issues here. Worker safety for sure,

customer safety too, and how those two interacting could engender the spread of coronavirus.

If you think about an infected driver

and all the people he or she picks up. Plus, how providing sick leave, if these companies were to

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