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Yesterday Comcast and AT&T were among ISPs announced some relaxed policies to help people suddenly stuck at home due to countermeasures taken in the fight against COVID-19. from https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/13/comcast-data-caps-coronavirus/ https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?thumbnail=640%2C&quality=80&image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fimages%2Fdims%3Fcrop%3D5990%252C3993%252C0%252C0%26quality%3D85%26format%3Djpg%26resize%3D1600%252C1067%26image_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fs.yimg.com%252Fos%252Fcreatr-images%252F2020-01%252F479931d0-412c-11ea-bbfb-dfea489061f9%26client%3Da1acac3e1b3290917d92%26signature%3D825be28da8250ddbc7ee2a09bde2d77c7777f753&client=amp-blogside-v2&signature=870a1a5c00adf7caf9257c4f39362f2e985a8e76

Last December, Jessica Luu thanked her customers for keeping her jewelry store in the top 1 percent of Etsy shops for yet another year, according to rankings from a third-party analytics service. from https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21173710/etsy-seller-complaints-advertising-program-revenue-growth-sales https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/66495549/etsy16_2040.0.0.jpg

President Donald Trump’s new European travel restrictions have a convenient side effect: They exempt nations where three Trump-owned golf resorts are located. Trump is already under fire for visiting his properties in both countries as president, leading to U.S. from https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-travel-europe-resorts-126808 https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/c88de0c/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F62%2F6d%2F54236e3e4de08ecf5d96ec74f97b%2F200311-turnberry-gty-773.jpg

Disney will close its Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California following concerns about contributing to the spread of the novel coronavirus. The company will continue paying cast members (the company’s terminology for employees) during the closure. from https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/12/21177397/disneyland-closure-california-orange-county-coronavirus-disneyworld-florida https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/66493354/1201101653.jpg.0.jpg

Italy's foreign minister has said the severe restrictions brought in as a result of the coronavirus are a way to defeat it. Luigi Di Maio told the BBC the measures imposed in the first area of the outbreak were proving effective. from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51852320 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/17BBE/production/_111241279_dimaio.jpg

The White House ordered for dozens of top-level meetings about the novel coronavirus to be classified, a move that may have hampered the country’s ability to contain the now-pandemic, Reuters reports. from https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/12/21176370/trump-administration-coronavirus-pandemic-classified-meetings-covid-19 https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/66489090/acastro_200311_3936_coronavirus_0001.0.0.jpg

Deaths from the new coronavirus in Italy have soared in recent days, with the country reporting 463 total fatalities from the virus, out of 9,172 confirmed cases, as of Monday (March 9). But why are deaths in the country so high? from https://www.livescience.com/why-italy-coronavirus-deaths-so-high.html https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cJGND8Nb2hZtDQHoUJ5oKA-320-80.jpg