Coronavirus Rescue Package

Topics Discussed:

• Opening Meditation (02:24)

• CARES Act (04:09)

• International Covid-19 Numbers (25:21)

• Celebrating Local Leaders (35:44)

• 2020 Election Questions (37:57)

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Episode Resources:

• READ: $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill (NPR) 

• Congress Reaches Agreement On A Coronavirus Relief Package: Tax Aspects Of The CARES Act (Forbes)

• What's in the $2.2 trillion coronavirus Senate stimulus package (The Washington Post)

• Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook (Politico)

• How the Intelligence Community Predicted COVID-19 (The Dispatch)

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) confirmed cases in Russia as of March 26, 2020, by region (Statista) 

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) confirmed cases in Ukraine as of March 26, 2020, by region (Statista) 

• As Russia shuts its borders, how widespread is COVID-19 there? (PBS News Hour)

• Why the Coronavirus Might Be Hitting Russia Harder Than We Think (U.S. News & World Report)

• Michael Roach (Local County Judge in Stephens County Texas)

Opening Meditation from Caitlin:

When we face those times of uncertainty in our life, the scene is often blurry. Things we were so sure of suddenly make little sense. The answers we thought were clear now seem lost in a distant fog, and we wander aimlessly, unable to regain the focus we once believed we had. Our confusion is unsettling. Doubt, like vertigo, distorts our balance as we fearfully wander in a vast and empty inner wilderness. As we wrestle with the darkness, a rush of panic washes into our hearts, our breath becomes shallow, and with each question, the judgments seem to escalate.

....When these times of mystery seem endless and our souls become weary of the stretch to believe, our prayer must be a simple request -- that we be reminded that we have not been abandoned in this place to wander forever alone...for it is often a silent flicker in our heart, the tiny voice within, that whispers wordlessly, "You are always loved. You are never alone."

-Doris Klein, Journey of the Soul