Time - USA (2020-05-11)

4 Time May 11, 2020

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For the Record

‘Money

is not

getting

into

people’s

hands.’

CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ,

mayor of San Juan, P.R., in

an April 25 appearance on

MSNBC; she claimed

that no Puerto Rican

residents had yet received

federal stimulus checks,

attributing the delay to local

distribution problems

‘Under no circumstance

should our disinfectant

products be administered

into the human body.’

RECKITT BENCKISER,

the company that makes Lysol and Dettol, in an April 

statement after President Trump speculated in a briefing

that it might be possible to treat COVID-19 using

disinfectants; Trump later said he was being sarcastic

‘We have

won that

battle. But

we must

remain

vigilant if we

are to keep

it that way.’

JACINDA ARDERN,

New Zealand Prime Minister,

on April 27, announcing that

the country had eliminated

“widespread undetected

community transmission”

of the novel coronavirus

‘I FEEL

LIKE THEY

MADE US

GUINEA

PIGS.’

LENON PAGE,

co-owner of a spa business in Savannah, Ga.,

speaking to TIME after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp

announced that businesses including gyms, salons

and barbershops could reopen on April 

‘Maybe if

you get enough

of these little

gestures,

it will all

come out for

the better in

t he e n d.’

DENNIS RUHNKE,

on sending a single N95 mask

to New York Governor Andrew

Cuomo; Cuomo read a letter

from the retired Kansas farmer

at a daily briefing on April 

144,

Boxes of cookies the Girl

Scouts of Alaska were

left with when COVID-

stopped the selling season,

local media said on

April 26; a federal loan will

help the group make up the

resulting funding gap

9 %

Approximate average drop per

decade in abundance of land-

dwelling insects, according

to a study published April 24;

researchers looked at more

than 150 long-term surveys of

insect populations

GOOD NEWS

of the week

A 6-year-old in British

Columbia gained

international attention

for opening a joke stand

at the end of his driveway,

where he offers laughs

while maintaining

social distance

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS, AP, NPR, INDEPENDENT, CBC, SCIENCE