Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Newsweek International

    Life After Lockdown

    May 01, 2020 4 minutes
    BY FRED GUTERL @fredguterl

    WITH UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS BALLOONING TO 22 million people, the coronavirus lockdown took an uncomfortable turn for state governors in mid-April. Workers and small business owners clogged the streets of Lansing, Michigan, near the capitol, blaring car and truck horns, and waved signs calling on Governor Gretchen Whitmer to allow businesses to open up. Smaller protests took place in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina and Utah.

    The angry outburst came just as the nation teetered on what the computer models say is the “peak” of the Covid-19 outbreak. According to most calculations, the death toll, after rising with terrifying steepness for several weeks, should be flattening out and soon

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Newsweek International

    Newsweek International7 min read
    Divine Intervention
    BISHOP JOSEPH STRICKLAND DID not always have a difficult relationship with Pope Francis. When Francis became the head of the Catholic Church, Strickland recalls admiring how welcoming the pope was. But as the pontiff began taking increasingly liberal
    Newsweek International4 min read
    Penn & Kim Holderness
    Newsweek _ What made you want to write this book? Penn Holderness _ You write the book you need. I knew that I needed to write this book when I saw that raising a family added a new level of difficulty to my brain being able to handle multiple tasks
    Newsweek International1 min read
    The Archives
    “After the bloody steps, the heart-rending funerals, the surreal chase through the twilight of Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson surrendered himself into the darkness his life has become,” Newsweek wrote after the famous white Ford Bronco chase on a Californ

    Related Books & Audiobooks