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German scheme for freelancers already depositing thousands of euros in actual bank accounts - eg in Berlin given €900m to 100,000 people/ small businesses...

Extraordinary speed in terms of support spending there
Translation of app form for B-W below
wm.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/foe…
The individual states’ schemes, many operated through the regional development banks have rather rapidly handed out cash there to people showing Coronavirus “liquidity bottlenecks” but it looks like they are all now being replaced with a Germany-wide scheme...
This the @rki_de public register of every hospital in Germany, traffic light rated on bed availability for different types of ventilated bed, ECMO machines... etc...

divi.de/register/inten…
Throw in the millions of tests too, & I’m taken back to quote from developing nation’s diplomat in my book on financial crisis, saying he looked to Germany and Google as examples for how to run his country “both run by engineers, whereas US and UK run by journalists and lawyers”
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a service for self-isolating Northern forty somethings...

The Hacienda live stay at home rave from #UnitedWeStreamGM is below via @Sacha_Lord

Directly streamed here #StayAtHomeSaveLives #madchester

Tony W would be proud!
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New health data out yesterday showed sharp decrease in A&E attendance.. appears to have halved...

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
This is part of why the NHS MD called on people - especially parents on behalf of sick children - to attend A&E as normal... even among those attending proportion of 5-14 year olds has halved, 15-64 yo has gone up
This is my colleague @deb_cohen important but upsetting report from last night’s @bbcNewsnight on non-Covid sick kids not getting medical attention -
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Coming up on #BBCNewsSix & #BBCNewsTen what keeping wheels of industry turning during a global pandemic looks like - a socially distanced production line at UK bike manufacturer Brompton..
As BBC forecast survey shows extraordinary immediate hit to UK GDP from pandemic/shutdowns:
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average fall in UK GDP forecast in this quarter (Q2) by top economists is ... -14%...

Best - -7.5%, worst -24%

having before pandemic been forecast by same at -0.2% on avg, and last month OBR projected (not taking CV into account) at +0.4%

A rebound anticipated later..
No decimal point mistake there, minus fourteen percent, - one-seventh of UK GDP switched off, fractions of the economy, not fractions of a per cent...my understanding is such numbers, the larger ones, come as no surprise to Government.

Question is how much rebound and when?
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