The economy in limbo

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Post Reports, Heather Long on how opening up the economy will be less like flipping a switch and more like a slow rehabilitation. Drew Harwell on the privacy complications around Zoom. And author J. Courtney Sullivan on what she’s reading for comfort.

The economy came to a grinding halt when the coronavirus hit. The recovery will likely be the opposite.

More and more people are relying on Zoom video conferencing for work and staying connected with others, but that comes at a risk: Thousands of videos have been left viewable on the open web.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.3	Hi there, is the mayor, Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.
0:08.8	Hey, it's Dossie, order to pick your brain on the platform.
0:11.2	Hi, my name's Janet Johnson.
0:13.2	This is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.8	It's Tuesday, April 14th.
0:23.5	Today, while reopening the economy won't be as simple as flipping a switch, the security
0:28.9	concerns over Zoom and reading in uncertain times.
0:36.0	We're also eager to get out and about again.
0:39.0	I know I need a haircut, but the reality is the economy is not going to go from zero to
0:45.2	a hundred percent overnight.
0:51.2	I'm Heather Long, the economics correspondent at the Washington Post.
0:59.0	This isn't going to be like hitting the light switch and having things magically come
1:03.5	back.
1:04.5	It's going to be a long, slow recovery with a lot of probably starts and stops and a lot
1:11.2	of businesses operating at more like 50 percent, not 100 percent, for the foreseeable
1:18.0	future.
1:19.2	We need both businesses to feel comfortable to reopen.
1:23.4	They need to put in place safety measures.
1:26.7	Customers have to feel okay to venture out again.
1:31.0	There's just going to be this fear factor that lingers, especially for people who are older
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