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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:34 PM Sep 2020

French government to continue paying up to 84% of salaries for furloughed workers "until next summer

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French government to continue paying up to 84% of salaries for furloughed workers "until next summer" due to prolonged economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. https://abcn.ws/2ZjJccT

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French government to continue paying up to 84% of salaries for furloughed workers "until next summer (Original Post) soothsayer Sep 2020 OP

Imagine living in a country where your government looked out for you Blue Owl Sep 2020 #1

Good for their govt! Their new cases hit a new high today BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #2

Deaths aren't the only critical metric PSPS Sep 2020 #3

Scientists and doctors will be discovering new BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #4

Kick dalton99a Sep 2020 #5

When you defend the labor union world rather than let them be destroyed by the corporate world... DSandra Sep 2020 #6

Because of the French revolution. JI7 Sep 2020 #7

Blue Owl

(50,226 posts)

1. Imagine living in a country where your government looked out for you

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:40 PM

Sep 2020

n/t

BigmanPigman

(51,554 posts)

2. Good for their govt! Their new cases hit a new high today

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:40 PM

Sep 2020

and have been skyrocketing for the past few weeks. Deaths aren't up but new cases are soaring.

PSPS

(13,573 posts)

3. Deaths aren't the only critical metric

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:51 PM

Sep 2020

Anyone who gets infected, even if completely asymptomatic, might still have a lifetime of chronic illness. They're seeing that already with systemic inflammation, myocarditis, brain impairment, etc., long after "recovery."