Indoor Spread, Workers' Anxieties, And Our Warped Sense Of Time
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🗓️ 19 May 2020
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As states around the country lift restrictions and businesses reopen, many workers in close-contact jobs are scared for their health and would rather stay on unemployment. NPR's Chris Arnold reports on what options workers have.
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| 0:00.0 | How long can businesses stay closed before it is impossible to reopen? |
| 0:05.2 | The longer that we continue a shutdown, when weeks turn into months, |
| 0:09.8 | doesn't that necessarily increase the risk that some businesses will fail? |
| 0:14.3 | That was Republican Senator Pat Toomey in a Senate hearing on Tuesday. |
| 0:18.1 | The answer from Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin. |
| 0:20.7 | There is the risk of permanent damage, and as I've said... |
| 0:23.3 | He said the administration is looking for a safe path forward. |
| 0:27.6 | Democrats, including Sharon Brown of Ohio, said the federal government needs to do more to make sure every worker is safe. |
| 0:35.4 | How many workers should give their lives to increase our GDP by half a percent? |
| 0:39.6 | Coming up as more churches and businesses consider reopening, |
| 0:43.5 | what we're still learning about how this virus spreads indoors. |
| 0:47.6 | And options you have if you're afraid to go back to work. |
| 0:50.9 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. |
| 0:54.6 | It's Tuesday, May 19. |
| 0:57.6 | Over six days back in early March, |
| 1:07.6 | 92 people went to a church in Greer's Ferry, Arkansas. |
| 1:12.0 | Bill Barton was the door greeter. |
| 1:14.3 | If you came to First Assembly and probably a lot of you have, |
| 1:18.0 | you were greeted by Bill at the door. |
| 1:20.4 | Bill Barton died on March 24. |
| 1:23.6 | Mark Polensky, a pastor at the church, |
| 1:26.0 | talked about his death on local radio. |
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