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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-me-count-the-ways dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The arrival of the novel coronavirus and subsequent shutdowns of economies across the globe have caused hardships not seen in generations. But for business professors, it's also a once-in-a-generation research opportunity.

USC Marshall Assistant Professor of Marketing and Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration Davide Proserpio was one of the first academics to study the sharing economy as he completed his Ph.D. Today he is considered a leading expert in the so-called "gig" economy. We asked him five questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant shutdown are affecting the sector.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:54PM (4 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:54PM (#1006048) Journal
    I just looked at Hennepin County [hennepin.us] in Minnesota which contains Minneapolis. Despite all that protesting and rioting, there isn't any increase in cases relative to the rest of Minnesota (most which didn't see such crowding). (7540 out of 22464 in roughly May 23 to 9674 out of 28869 on June 10).
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @11:13PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @11:13PM (#1006056)

    Yet.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 11 2020, @12:38PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 11 2020, @12:38PM (#1006251) Journal
      And that's significant since the protests started on May 26, two weeks ago.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:54AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:54AM (#1006178)

    The protests are a boon for Trump if he plays it right (questionable):

    1) No spike -- he tells everyone he was right all along and this was just a Democrat plot to torpedo the economy, a plot so egregious they didn't care if they put millions out of work.

    2) Spike -- he points out how cut off air travel from China and how it was all the most blue of the blue who decided to go out and protest and endanger the health of the citizens and the economy by extension. That they put their ideology before science, almost as if by design to create a hellscape in the hopes of winning an election.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:21PM (#1006476)

      Trump did not cut off people coming in from China. He only cut off Chinese nationals.

      Around 45,000 people came in during his *supposed* ban. He then did the same with Europe and mostly recently with Brazil.

      His travels bans for Corona virus are not effective. They are just for show.