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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
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The Headlines
Wisconsin Election Fight Heralds a National Battle Over Virus-Era Voting
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Blinding Lights"
The Weeknd
#1 at the box office
Phoenix, Oregon
$17,624
The must-have
Star Wars: The Child (Grogu) Animatronic
On This Day
COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
Wikipedia →COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jackie Chan (1954)
- William Wordsworth (1770)
- Russell Crowe (1964)
- Gerhard Schröder (1944)
- Gabriela Mistral (1889)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
Pandemic
Gen Z Alpha
Tech Check
Zoom (Mass Adoption), Apple M1 Chip & mRNA Vaccines.
Style of 2020
Silhouette: Comfort-first and oversized (Pandemic)
Material: Sweatpants and tie-dye
- Masks
- Matching lounge sets
- Cottagecore
Cost of Living (2020)
Loaf of Bread
$1.55
Gallon of Gas
$2.17
Average Home
$336,900
New Car
$39,750
Meanwhile
- COVID-19 Recession — Shortest but sharpest recession in history; global lockdowns.
Time Elapsed
2,251 days ago
(6 years, 61 days)