The New York Times. April 04, 2020

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When panic buying wiped out

shelves of toilet paper, bidets, those

delicate fountains embraced by

Europeans as a toilet paper alterna-

tive, were given a spotlight. Several

manufacturers have told journalists

that sales are up as some Americans

say, “Why not?”

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BIDETS’ SHINING MOMENT

MADDY PRICE

1. Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness
   Michelle Goldberg’s Opinion column criticizing Mr. Kushner’s
   reportedly significant role in the country’s response to the
   coronavirus was Friday’s most read article. Mr. Kushner has
   “arrogated to himself a major role in fighting the epochal
   health crisis that’s brought America to its knees,” she wrote.
   “This is dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy.”


2. The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid
   New York. It Has 20 Patients.
   The Navy hospital ship U.S.N.S. Comfort was sent to New York
   to relieve pressure on city hospitals by treating people with
   ailments other than Covid-19, the illness caused by the coro-
   navirus. But a tangle of bureaucratic hurdles has prevented
   the Comfort from accepting many patients at all.


3. C.I.A. Hunts for Authentic Virus Totals in China,
   Dismissing Government Tallies
   Since at least early February, the C.I.A. has been warning the
   White House that China has vastly understated its coro-
   navirus infections, and that its count could not be relied upon
   when compiling predictive models, Julian E. Barnes reports.


4. Bill Withers, Who Sang ‘Lean on Me’
   And ‘Lovely Day,’ Dies at 81
   One of the few top articles on Friday not related to the coro-
   navirus was this obituary for Bill Withers, who died on Mon-
   day. (His son said he had heart problems.) Mr. Withers taught
   himself to play guitar and wrote memorable hits including
   “Ain’t No Sunshine.”

The Conversation

FOUR OF THE MOST READ, SHARED AND DISCUSSED POSTS

FROM ACROSS NYTIMES.COM

CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, an investigative reporter for The

Times, recently worked with Denise Lu and Gabriel J.X.

Dance, two journalists for The Times, to examine how lower-

income workers are continuing to move around, while those

who make more money are limiting their exposure to the

coronavirus. On Twitter, Ms. Valentino-DeVries reflected on

their reporting. Read a lightly edited excerpt below.

Spotlight

ADDITIONAL REPORTAGE AND REPARTEE

FROM OUR JOURNALISTS

To read more, see page A9.

Many jobs that are now essential — grocery workers,

health aides, delivery — are lower-paying and don’t

provide health insurance. Workers might be happy to

have a job now, but it presents risks.

Smartphone data shows low-income workers don’t

always have the privilege to stay home during

coronavirus.

Not only that, but we can see that wealthier people had

a head start of several days in being able to stay home.

Remember, days are crucial in this pandemic. Seeing

some of this data, I feel like I’m looking at people dying

in the future. It’s terrifying and sad.

There have been great stories about this, including one

about continued ridership on the New York subway.

What our story today provides is real-time evidence that

this is not an anecdotal concern, and that it holds in

metro areas across the U.S.

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino

I talked with essential workers for this story. One,

Adarra Benjamin, is a home care aide in Chicago. She is

worried but hanging in there. “We’re all in this together,”

she told me. I wish we could all be more like Adarra and

that people really felt this way for everyone.

The Library of Congress was

created in 1800 by the same act of

Congress that moved the federal

government to Washington, with a

$5,000 budget for books approved

by John Adams.

An Online Trove of Film TreasuresC

• The Bronx Zoo contains
  roughly 6,000 creatures.
  Working From a Quieter HomeC


• 
  

  The U.S. Women’s Open golf
  tournament, rescheduled for
  December, will use two golf courses
  simultaneously for the first two
  rounds to accommodate a winter
  start.
  U.S. Women’s Open Is Rescheduled
  From June to DecemberB

  
  

Each dollar that companies spent on

advertising in the United States last

year led to $9 in sales, the research

firm IHS Markit estimated.

Jittery Firms Cut Back Ads During CrisisB

In soccer, the Premier League is

facing a bill of nearly $1 billion to

broadcasters if it fails to play the

remainder of the season.

European Leagues Get Clarity, and a Threat,

On RestartingB

• Research from Next Street, an
  advisory firm focused on small
  businesses, found that 25 percent of
  them cannot make it past 30 days
  and another 25 percent do not have
  enough cash to get past 90 days.
  Small-Business Owners Face Hard DecisionsB


• 
  

  The four largest pay TV providers in
  the United States are AT&T,
  Comcast, Charter Communications
  and Dish Network.
  What Are We Paying For, Anyway?B

  
  

Of Interest

NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

ILLUSTRATION BY BEN DENZER

LEANING TOWER OF PISA

“We have a rainy-day

fund, but it’s raining

awfully hard, awfully

fast.”

ROB DEMARTINI,the chief executive of

USA Cycling, one of many Olympic

organizations facing hard financial

times because of the postponement of

the Games.

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A $200 MILLION DELAY MEANS

LEAN TIMES FOR MANY OLYMPIC

ATHLETES B

I recently interviewed Rahil Briggs,

Psy.D., and she mentioned the metaphor of

the dandelion and the orchid. It’s a theory

developed by Dr. Thomas Boyce, M.D., a

pediatrician and researcher, and it posits

that the vast majority of children are

“dandelions” — pretty resilient and able to

deal with stress as it comes. But, Dr. Boyce

estimates about 20 percent of children are

“orchids.” As he described them on NPR’s

“Fresh Air” in 2019, “the orchid child is the

child who shows great sensitivity and

susceptibility to both bad and good envi-

ronments.”

Dr. Boyce’s research shows that orchids

thrive on regular routines — routines that

have had to be rejiggered considerably in

the past month or two. Though these

methods are geared toward orchids, they

can work on your upset dandelions as well.

Teach children mindfulness techniques.

Progressive muscle relaxation — where

you tense and then release individual

groups of muscles — can be helpful for

anxious kids, said Dunya Poltorak, Ph.D.,

a pediatric medical psychologist in private

practice in Birmingham, Mich. Another

behavioral technique that can make chil-

dren feel better is deep breathing, Dr.

Poltorak said.

Create a schedule with pictures.Predict-

ability is important for anxious children,

said Sally Beville Hunter, Ph.D., a clinical

assistant professor at the University of

Tennessee, Knoxville, and one way to

soothe kids who don’t read yet is to make a

schedule that has images depicting the

routine of the day. We’re all overwhelmed

right now, so don’t worry about making

some elaborate plan. “It can be as simple

as, here are four things we do every day”:

breakfast, lunch, dinner, cuddles.

JESSICA GROSE

For more tips on how to help your anxious kid,

visit parenting.nytimes.com.

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