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THE ECHO
BGA' S S TU D E NT NE WS PAPE R
Coronavirus Follow-up Shea Kelly January 29th, I wrote an article about Coronavirus and how it was impacting the global market after seeing it briefly on the news in the morning on the day of club. I explained how we were not to worry because the market “bounced back” after this epidemic, which in hindsight makes me believe that at the time I was under the impression that the worst was over with. I later talked to some of my friends and I distinctly remember the majority of them disagreeing with me as I told them that I believed that COVID would soon be in the US and it could affect us directly. (Ignorance is bliss). Little did I know that in the next few months we would experience coronavirus cases incredibly close to home, the largest point drop in the Dow since Black Monday in 1987, and millions of lives impacted by these stay-at-home orders nationwide. Even as we experienced cases in our county, I didn’t even think that we would get off school for the whole week preceding up to Spring Break. Here we are, three weeks later still out of school and still in quarantine. I’ll admit, even during Spring Break I did not think this was as serious as it actually is.
Embarrassed, I confess that I too enjoyed my week at 30A and chose to ignore the warnings. However, as soon as we returned from all the fun and leisure, we’ve been on full lockdown. There is not a time that I walk down the stairs and CNBC is not on. It was disconcerting to get onto Zoom and hear one of my classmates say that “they had no idea it was such a big deal because yesterday (they) walked into Kroger and there were still Little Bites on the shelves”. All joking aside, it’s important to recognize how serious this pandemic is, and how staying inside saves lives. In the United States, it is expected that we have a hospital bed shortage of 36,654 (As of April 7, 2020). This means that 36,654 people will not be getting the full attention that they need and that number could rise if Americans continue to not take these warnings seriously. Luckily, for Tennessee we are expected to have zero bed shortages. Of course, this number could change if Tennesseans chose to continue to go out and possibly share the virus while being asymptomatic. I would be remiss not to highlight the CARES Act, which is a 2 trillion dollar stimulus plan that shares the shares the money among individuals, companies, and other areas that may need it. (continued on page 5)
The Echo Staff
Bailey Anderson Shea Kelly Alex Pareigis Sydney Carroll Sarah May Lindsay Phelps Jack Cheney Mitchell Morrison Jack Such Dalia Diab Dominick Nesbitt Ching Ching Zhang Jad Diab Ally Newkirk Izzy Donoghue Kate O'Hara
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