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Record unemployment numbers today: 6.6m new claims including OR, though its hard to get through: https://www.koin.com/news/health/coronavirus/busy-signals-oregonians-struggle-to-file-for-unemployment/ Snitch line is getting lots of calls: bureaucrats deciding what is price gouging? Higher prices lead to less hording?  https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/complaints-flood-oregons-new-coronavirus-price-gouging-hotline.html How Oregon dealt with Spanish flu: wasn’t as bad as other places sort of like today https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/complaints-flood-oregons-new-coronavirus-price-gouging-hotline.html Have we over reacted or is it about right? https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/460507-374513-strong-evidence-seen-that-oregons-coronavirus-restrictions-are-working-pwoff  

How to date during social distancing: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8171069/Coronavirus-Brooklyn-man-wooed-woman-drone-takes-date-wears-protective-bubble.html   Donald Trumps insults pale in comparision to past presidents: do you respect him more now that he is showing true leadership during the virus crisis? https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2020/03/donald-trump-is-famous-for-his-insults-but-his-invective-doesnt-compare-to-theodore-roosevelts-oregon-author-argues.html   Should Kate raise your cost of living by driving up gas prices during the severe economic downturn we are about to experience? Here’s how she’s doing it. https://oregoncatalyst.com/46839-gov-brown-raises-gas-prices-virus-outbreak-bad-economy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OregonCatalyst+%28The+Oregon+Catalyst%29  

OR Dept of Education reverses itself in 48 hrs and now says schools are closed until June, but still allowed to teach online. Credits and grades are supposed to count now when last week they didn’t. https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2020/03/30/state-department-of-education-says-schools-may-not-reopen-before-june-shifts-to-support-distance-learning/ Kudos to Salem Keizer for offer no cost computers to students to learn from home: not gonna be easy and it represents a danger to the ed establishment and unions cause parents might […]

Is the virus impact in Oregon actually diminishing? https://oregoncatalyst.com/46816-3-coronavirus-charts-oregon-stands.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OregonCatalyst+%28The+Oregon+Catalyst%29 Trump gives Oregon disaster declaration but Kate still moaning about not having enough: why should the Feds do her job in acquiring needed supplies? https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/governor-calls-federal-disaster-declaration-for-oregon-a-first-step.html Freedom Foundation interview with Jason Dudash: FF calls for 3 month suspension of union dues collection which would pump 29M into Oregon economy: https://www.freedomfoundation.com/press-release/three-month-moratorium-on-public-union-dues-would-pump-29-million-back-to-hardworking-oregonians/ We can pump our gas now! Short term. Should we make it […]