{"id":91855,"date":"2020-04-19T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91855"},"modified":"2020-04-19T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:09:49","slug":"wsj-europe-slowly-emerges-from-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91855","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Europe Slowly Emerges From Coronavirus Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe\u2019s atomized efforts are a test of how the U.S. will fare as states such as New York and California attempt to follow. President Trump\u2019s administration has encouraged states to reopen in phases after cases begin to fall. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the governors of six nearby states have convened a task force<\/a> to look at how they will reopen their economies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Experiences in Europe suggest the reopenings will come in fits and starts, in a strange, postlockdown reality where commercial districts are at best half-open, closed to tour groups and crowds, and bracketed with temperature control checks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a hard mental shift,\u201d said Weston Stacey, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic. \u201cWith U.S. government officials we\u2019ve talked to, it\u2019s very hard to get them around this thinking of, \u2018OK, if we do this, in three weeks, everything will go back to normal.\u2019 Things are not going back to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lockdown restrictions helped reduce coronavirus cases and many Italian intensive-care units now have free beds. But the toll on shops, restaurants, bars and entertainment businesses has been extraordinary.<\/p>\n

At least a sixth of all Italian restaurant and bars\u2014some 50,000 mostly small businesses\u2014will perish, the country\u2019s bar and diner lobby Fipe projects. Movie theaters have seen almost no revenue in weeks, and anticipate prohibitive crowd restrictions when they reopen: Germany\u2019s top 10 grossing films combined reported just $1,485 in total ticket sales over Easter weekend.<\/p>\n

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The open\u00adings are piece\u00admeal and pro\u00advi\u00adsional, bring\u00ading no swift or sub\u00adstan\u00adtial re\u00adlief to a crush\u00ading re\u00adces\u00adsion pro\u00adjected to be Eu\u00adrope\u2019s worst since the Great De\u00adpres\u00adsion. https:\/\/t.co\/xTn78KiZuu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jennifer Smith (@jensmithWSJ) April 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n