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<ul><li>Astronauts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have advice on staying home during the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> outbreak. </li><li>Some suggest ways to keep yourself entertained, others share their own experiences of self-isolation.</li><li>NASA astronaut, Anne McClain, believes the best way to keep yourself sane is to adjust your expectations.</li></ul>Long before the Coronavirus hit the planet, astronauts were the original experts on social isolation and self-quarantine. Now, they’re sharing tips on Twitter on how to keep ‘#EarthStrong’. Some shared ways to keep oneself entertained, others shared experiences of self-isolation from when they were in space. After all, carrying on in high-risk situations — even when you’re alone — is a part of their training before heading up there. Now that many non-astronauts are stuck in the situation of having to self-quarantine or <keyword id="123591" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Work-from-home">work from home</keyword>, it’s not any easy change to make without the requisite training. Here’s a list of <keyword id="8875920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus-tips">coronavirus tips</keyword> that astronauts have shared about how to stay at home, stay entertained and not go crazy: It’s not rocket science NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a year in space aboard the ISS from 2015 to 2016, urged people to follow the advice of experts. If it’s rocket science, you ask a rocket scientist. If it’s an infection, you listen to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="StationCDRKelly" handlename="Scott Kelly" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/975030326459170816/ivHlJOYx_normal.jpg" favoritecount="10641" retweetcount="3625" status="One thing I learned in my twenty years at NASA is that most problems aren’t rocket science, but when they are rocke… https://t.co/niq4d0zm6a" createdat="1584202665000" id="1238861888668270593"></div>







 Like other experts, he also encouraged that people need to flatten the curve through social distancing. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="StationCDRKelly" handlename="Scott Kelly" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/975030326459170816/ivHlJOYx_normal.jpg" favoritecount="460" retweetcount="131" status="To all my younger followers out there, PLEASE look at these graphics closely to understand why YOU are so important… https://t.co/C0nQkfJBad" createdat="1584528002000" id="1240226449057091584"></div>







 Another NASA astronaut, Anne McClain — another veteran of the spaceflight programme — believes the best way to deal with the restlessness is to adjust your own expectations. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="AstroAnnimal" handlename="Anne McClain" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1127165846483288064/z_ZR5PJj_normal.jpg" favoritecount="2425" retweetcount="731" status="Reminder that stress happens when expectations aren’t in line with reality. When we can’t change reality, it’s best… https://t.co/pZ7Xm7maGC" createdat="1584422578000" id="1239784270232682496"></div>







 Explore space to pass the time The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched an initiative to help keep people entertained at home. You explore past missions and peer through digital telescopes to pass the time. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="AstroSamantha" handlename="Samantha Cristoforetti" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1046023878315831297/g08oPXU5_normal.jpg" favoritecount="383" retweetcount="112" status="Have fun with @esascience while #stayinghome! Qualche idea da @esascience per attività da fare mentre… https://t.co/PuQ0dDx2DB" createdat="1584367746000" id="1239554286729773061"></div>







 French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet curated his own guide to surviving the #quartantinelife. According to him, staying at home is the easier and best method of protecting yourself from the Coronavirus. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Thom_astro" handlename="Thomas Pesquet" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1240343905025110019/lJd_hOef_normal.jpg" favoritecount="671" retweetcount="177" status="Like many in Europe, I am in quarantine too. Here is how I hope to cope with #QuarantineLife, but also why it is im… https://t.co/KDjZVvGiT4" createdat="1584473452000" id="1239997648142323714"></div>







 He’s been posting brain teasers on his account, wishing everyone a ‘Happy Quarantine’ to keep spirits up. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Thom_astro" handlename="Thomas Pesquet" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1240343905025110019/lJd_hOef_normal.jpg" favoritecount="333" retweetcount="82" status="Ok, since people are stuck at home, let's start to travel a little bit. Armenia, Iran &amp; Turkey intersect in a regio… https://t.co/o6WMO3XQwn" createdat="1584552600000" id="1240329620139831301"></div>







 Their experience in isolation Luca Parmitano, an Italian astronaut with the ESA who recently returned from space on the same spacecraft as Koch, reached out to his fellow Sicilians to talk about he was recently quarantined — and due prepare your time during a time like this. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Regione_Sicilia" handlename="Regione Siciliana" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1089111210308571137/BI3TknhY_normal.jpg" favoritecount="405" retweetcount="129" status=".@astro_luca lancia un appello ai siciliani, anche lui è stato in quarantena per potersi preparare a realizzare gra… https://t.co/NYREmrE3Fv" createdat="1584433658000" id="1239830740172496897"></div>







 Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, also shared his experience of being isolated on St.Patrick’s Day when he was in space from 2012 to 2013. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Cmdr_Hadfield" handlename="Chris Hadfield" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/620788674414952456/y_ozO3uO_normal.png" favoritecount="1252" retweetcount="134" status="On the most isolated St Patrick's Day of my life, I sang Danny Boy (in @SoundCloud's 'space folk' collection):… https://t.co/nn7ec7yem3" createdat="1584444644000" id="1239876821866463232"></div>







 He also tweeted that the best antidote for the fear and panic that’s being created around the coronavirus outbreak is competence — knowing what to do. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Cmdr_Hadfield" handlename="Chris Hadfield" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/620788674414952456/y_ozO3uO_normal.png" favoritecount="539" retweetcount="107" status="The best antidote for fear is competence - knowing what to do. https://t.co/BMD8MIob8z" createdat="1584542987000" id="1240289300446613504"></div>







 We’re all in this together NASA astronaut, Jessica Meir, tweeted a photo of Tel Aviv in Israel with the words, “This too shall pass.” She’s been aboard the <keyword id="6382020" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="international-space-station">International Space Station</keyword> (ISS) for almost six months. This is the second time that Meir has tweeted about her father’s Middle Eastern heritage. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Astro_Jessica" handlename="Jessica Meir" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/645659429241667584/B1R8ipEH_normal.jpg" favoritecount="3382" retweetcount="654" status="Gazing down at the city in which my father was raised, I take to heart one of his most uttered expressions, “This t… https://t.co/3mKIbeu0SI" createdat="1584482524000" id="1240035700873052162"></div>







 In another tweet she shared how astronauts keep glovebags to protect themselves and keep germs out. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Astro_Jessica" handlename="Jessica Meir" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/645659429241667584/B1R8ipEH_normal.jpg" favoritecount="1480" retweetcount="194" status="Despite all that is (or is not) happening on Earth, the @ISS_Research continues! We use glovebags to keep things in… https://t.co/hiI1ykYBuQ" createdat="1584547588000" id="1240308599043362816"></div>







 Another NASA astronaut, Christina H Koch, who recently returned from space expressed that being stuck at home has made her realise the importance of family and friends. 
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Astro_Christina" handlename="Christina H Koch" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/657417359527817217/3ZZfhY3k_normal.jpg" favoritecount="4661" retweetcount="571" status="One year ago, launching into space reinforced to me that the most important thing on Earth is the people you love. … https://t.co/A5SnUOHJYT" createdat="1584398870000" id="1239684832155885571"></div>







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'It's not rocket science' — Astronauts offer coronavirus tips to survive social isolation

Astronaut Scott Kelly reveals the lessons he learned spending nearly a year in space that can help the rest of us cope with pandemic life

<ul class="summary-list"><li>As the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1">coronavirus has spread around the globe</a>, millions of people are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-on-lockdown-coronavirus-italy-2020-3">under lockdown orders</a> that could stretch deep into 2020.</li><li>NASA astronauts routinely live and work in confined spaces for months, and in some cases more than a year.</li><li>Given the new and potentially difficult circumstances for those unaccustomed to home confinement, astronauts have weighed in with scores of tips.</li><li>Most say good communication is vital, as is controlling the amount of time you work and respecting the roles and differences of others. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Space may be the final frontier, but living off of Earth can be extremely challenging. Due to a long and fussy list of survival needs, plus the expense of traveling to and from orbit, residing and working in space means eeking it out in very cramped accommodations for long periods of time.In recent weeks, an increasing share of humans on Earth are being asked or forced to stay inside for weeks and months to help slow the coronavirus' spread and keep healthcare systems from being overwhelmed.Knowing that millions of people face similar struggles to astronauts' long-lasting confinement in space, a handful of have stepped forward to offer their hard-won advice, especially for coexisting with others in isolated spaces.Here are some of the most sage and sensible tips from NASA's and other space agencies' finest.Get the latest <a href="/coronavirus-covid19">coronavirus analysis and research</a> from Business Insider Intelligence on how COVID-19 is impacting businesses.

4 astronauts reveal their secrets to surviving months of isolation with other people

Associated PressIn this photo provided by Austin Boschen, people wait in line to go through the customs at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Saturday, March 14, 2020.Hello!My Insider Inc. colleagues and I are now all working from home, and I expect many of you are too. I will admit that so far that it's been an adjustment. With that in mind, I want to start the newsletter this week with advice from six of our senior editors who have worked remotely for years about how to do it productively. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-how-to-work-from-home-remote-office-be-productive-2020-3">8 tips for crushing your job while working from home, from 6 leaders who have worked remotely for years</a>I hope it's helpful. I should also note that cybersecurity experts are warning that hackers are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-remote-workers-wfh-cybersecurity-hackers-2020-3">targeting people now working from home amid the coronavirus outbreak</a>. Be careful online.Below is a breakdown of how the coronavirus is impacting the healthcare industry, markets, Wall Street and Big Law, Big Tech and Silicon Valley startups, cleantech, the advertising and media industry, and even space exploration.But before that, I want to highlight some non-coronavirus related features from the past week that are worth your time:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-points-guy-founder-brian-kelly-networth-extravagant-life-spending-2020-3">Inside the wild world of 'The Points Guy,' Brian Kelly: A massively profitable media empire and claims of non-stop partying, drugs and extravagant spending</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employees-say-car-factory-run-better-by-toyota-gm-2020-2">We talked to 42 insiders about Tesla's factory of the future. They revealed the corners cut to hit ambitious production targets.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employees-say-car-factory-run-better-by-toyota-gm-2020-2"></a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-rise-and-challenges-sigfig-the-robo-adviser-fintech-2020-3">SigFig raised $120 million on the promise of reinventing investing, but hasn't announced a big partnership in years. Here's how it went from deals with UBS and Wells Fargo to struggling to compete.</a></li></ul>Coming back to coronavirus, here are a couple of bullet points from across our coverage just to highlight how far-ranging of an impact the outbreak is having.<ul><li>Coronavirus could stop in-person campaigning in the 2020 US election. As Rob Price reported, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-us-2020-election-no-traditional-campaigning-facebook-google-2020-3">that could give Facebook, Google, and Twitter more power over American democracy than ever before.</a></li><li>The world has turned upside down since DoorDash filed for an IPO two weeks ago. CEO Tony Xu talked to Meghan Morris and Troy Wolverton <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doordash-ceo-talks-ipo-timing-and-coronavirus-2020-3">about competition, coronavirus, and going public</a>. </li><li>Big Law M&amp;A work is evaporating, but Casey Sullivan reported that some firms are about to make bank. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-law-firms-see-slowdown-from-coronavirus-2020-3">Here are the winners and losers.</a></li><li>Benji Jones reported that the leading clean-energy research firm just slashed its outlook in response to the coronavirus pandemic, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bnef-analysts-slash-projections-for-2020-renewable-energy-installations-2020-3">revealing that solar energy installations could decline for the first time in decades</a>.</li><li>Lauren Johnson got her hands on a leaked document showing that top ad agency Magna Global is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-2020-magna-global-breaks-down-live-sports-impact-2020-3">predicting that cancelled NBA and NCAA events will cost TV networks up to a 25% drop in viewership.</a></li></ul><h2>AP Photo/Martin MeissnerA nurse demonstrates taking a sample for a coronavirus test at the infection station of the university hospital in Essen, Germany, Thursday, March 12, 2020.</h2><h2>What coronavirus means for the healthcare system</h2>Italy has quickly become one of the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic, Lydia Ramsey reports. From her story: In a conversation hosted by the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Maurizio Cecconi, the head of the department of anesthesia and intensive care units at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, said Italy's situation began on February 20, when a patient in his 30s tested positive for COVID-19.As of Friday, Italy had more than 15,000 infections and more than 1,000 deaths related to COVID-19. You can read her story here:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-advice-from-italian-doctor-to-us-doctors-and-hospitals-2020-3">A doctor at the epicenter of the coronavirus response in Italy warns US hospitals to avoid getting overwhelmed by the pandemic</a>Lydia's story from a week ago is continuing to attract lots of attention. If you missed it, you can read it here:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/presentation-how-hospitals-are-preparing-for-us-coronavirus-outbreak-2020-3">A leaked presentation reveals the document US hospitals are using to prepare for a major coronavirus outbreak. It estimates 96 million US coronavirus cases and 480,000 deaths.</a>Elsewhere:<ul><li>$120 billion pharma giant Eli Lilly just teamed up <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eli-lilly-abcellera-plan-to-develop-coronavirus-treatment-2020-3">with a biotech startup to fight the coronavirus pandemic</a>. "We've never moved at this speed before," Eli Lilly chief scientific officer Dan Skovronsky told Andrew Dunn.</li><li>The "most promising" coronavirus treatment is facing its biggest test yet, Andrew reported. Clinical data for Gilead's drug remdesivir <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-treatment-gileads-remdesivir-clinical-testing-timeline-2020-3">is coming in a matter of weeks</a>.</li></ul><h2>ReutersTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after the opening bell of the trading session in New York</h2><h2>What it means for markets</h2>The Global COVID Crisis (GCC), as JPMorgan referred to it in a research note this week, triggered a wild stretch for markets, including <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/dow-index-bear-stock-market-20-days-fastest-history-coronavirus-2020-3-1028989775">the fastest 20% drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in history</a> and the Dow's <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-news-today-index-reaction-coronavirus-trump-fed-stimulus-2020-3-1028991586?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worst single-day drop since 1987</a>. Stocks on Friday then <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-news-today-index-reaction-trump-coronavirus-speech-plan-2020-3-1028995408">surged as policymakers stepped up</a> their efforts to contain the economic damage of the outbreak. Our investing team had lots of stories on how to navigate it all:<ul><li>Akin Oyedele talked to Jim Rogers, the famed investor who earned a 4,200% return with George Soros, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stocks-to-buy-recommendations-post-coronavirus-crash-rally-jim-rogers-2020-3">who identified the best two assets to buy for profits after a "total collapse" in markets.</a></li><li>Famed economist David Rosenberg called the housing bubble. He told Marley Jay why the oil-price war will be more damaging than the coronavirus,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-crash-recession-forecast-oil-price-war-david-rosenberg-2020-3"> and outlined a scenario where stocks plunge another 13%.</a></li><li>And Goldman Sachs studied every bear market in stocks since 1835, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-crash-coronavirus-bear-market-unique-in-history-goldman-2020-3">and found three red flags that make this coronavirus-driven one unlike any other in history.</a></li></ul><h2>What it means for Wall Street firms and Big Law</h2><ul><li>CME and Cboe are clearing trading floors. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jon-najarian-cme-cboe-shut-trading-floors-coronavirus-2020-3">Dan DeFrancesco talked to one veteran trader who thinks the millions they'll save will be too good to ever reopen the iconic pits.</a></li><li>Rebecca Ungarino delved in to why Goldman Sachs analysts think Morgan Stanley's stock <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-recession-outlook-morgan-stanley-best-positioned-goldman-sachs-analysts-2020-3">will be Wall Street's big winner if a full-blown recession strikes.</a></li><li>People are rethinking daily habits like touching dirty dollar bills as coronavirus spreads. Shannen Balogh reported that this could be the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-concerns-could-drive-adoption-of-contactless-payments-2020-3">catalyst that finally triggers the US to tap their phones to pay</a>.</li><li>Bradley Saacks reported that hedge fund Bridgewater made an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bridgewater-is-shorting-adidas-santander-bayer-siemens-bbva-bnp-2020-3">$11.8 billion bet against giant European companies like Bayer, Santander, and Adidas as the coronavirus spread put Italy on lockdown.</a> Bradley also identified six hedge fund that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/volatility-hedge-fund-artemis-capital-run-by-chris-cole-surges-2020-3">have returned as much as 14% in recent weeks with bets focused on volatility and macro trends.</a></li><li>Meanwhile, Big Law M&amp;A work is evaporating, but Casey Sullivan reported that some firms are about to make bank. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-law-firms-see-slowdown-from-coronavirus-2020-3">Here are the winners and losers.</a></li></ul><h2>ReutersAmazon's Jeff Bezos</h2><h2>What coronavirus means for Silicon Valley</h2>Let's start with Big Tech:<ul><li>Eugene Kim reported that Amazon has postponed its twice-a-year all-hands meeting because of the coronavirus, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-internal-all-hands-staff-meeting-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-2020-3">meaning workers won't hear directly from Jeff Bezos at a time of uncertainty</a>.</li><li>Coronavirus could stop in-person campaigning in the 2020 US election. As Rob Price reported, that could give Facebook, Google, and Twitter <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-us-2020-election-no-traditional-campaigning-facebook-google-2020-3">more power over American democracy than ever before.</a></li><li>Ashley Stewart reported that Microsoft offered <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-paid-leave-parents-schools-close-coronavirus-2020-3">paid leave to employees who can't work from home while schools are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak.</a></li><li>Paayal Zaveri reported on a new filing from Salesforce showing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-filing-impact-coronavirus-marc-benioff-2020-3">all the ways the company is concerned about coronavirus.</a></li><li>Troy Wolverton reports that the coronavirus crisis has exposed a crucial weakness in Airbnb's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-is-shedding-dim-light-on-airbnbs-business-model-2020-3">business model and it's likely to haunt the $31 billion company's IPO plans</a>.</li><li>Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield touted its customer wins against Microsoft Teams. Paayal reported that analysts <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/slack-stewart-butterfield-customer-microsoft-teams-analysts-2020-3">worry the coronavirus crisis will hurt its ability to compete.</a></li></ul>And now for startups:<ul><li>Silicon Valley's startups are facing the biggest crisis in a generation, Melia Russell and Megan Hernbroth reported. Here's what venture capital investors like Greycroft, Menlo Ventures, and Mayfield <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/investor-advice-for-startups-during-coronavirus-outbreak-2020-3">are telling founders they need to do to survive.</a></li><li>The world has turned upside down since DoorDash filed for an IPO two weeks ago. CEO Tony Xu talked to Meghan Morris and Troy Wolverton <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doordash-ceo-talks-ipo-timing-and-coronavirus-2020-3">about competition, coronavirus, and going public</a>. </li><li>Melia reported that Lux Capital, a top VC firm, is asking employees to log everywhere they go in case they catch the coronavirus, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lux-capital-employees-log-places-they-go-as-coronavirus-spreads-2020-3">saying they have a "moral responsibility" to stem the spread.</a></li><li>Megan reported that top VC firm Kleiner Perkins says it signed the first term sheet of the "work from home" era. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kleiner-perkins-series-a-term-sheet-remote-working-era-2020-3">Here's how it came together</a>.</li><li>Megan also reported that Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's most famous startup training program, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-nixes-2-minute-presentations-virtual-demo-day-2020-3">scrapped its famous 'Demo Day' founder pitches and will instead make startups submit investor-friendly slides</a></li></ul><h2>What it means for renewables</h2>Cleantech is one of our newer areas of coverage, and I couldn't be happier to have Benji Jones the leading the charge at a really interesting time for the industry. Here's what you need to know:<ul><li>The coronavirus cratered solar panel manufacturing. Now, China is ramping back up, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-has-slowed-production-of-solar-panels-and-batteries-2020-3">but top analysts say there could still be month-long delays and price hikes.</a></li><li>The leading clean-energy research firm just slashed its outlook in response to the coronavirus pandemic, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bnef-analysts-slash-projections-for-2020-renewable-energy-installations-2020-3">revealing that solar energy installations could decline for the first time in decades</a>.</li><li>Shuttered factories, tangled supply chains, and cratering demand: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/8-experts-explain-how-coronavirus-is-impacting-the-clean-energy-sector-2020-3">eight experts told us how the coronavirus pandemic and oil price war are hitting clean energy</a></li></ul><h2>John Minchillo/AP</h2><h2>What it means for the advertising and media business</h2><ul><li>Lauren Johnson got her hands on a leaked document showing that top ad agency Magna Global is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-2020-magna-global-breaks-down-live-sports-impact-2020-3">predicting that cancelled NBA and NCAA events will cost TV networks up to a 25% drop in viewership.</a> The firm is also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-2020-ipgs-magna-globals-brand-safety-advice-2020-3">telling clients to stop avoiding coronavirus-related content as publishers get squeezed.</a></li><li>Patrick Coffee got his hands on the full memo from advertising holding company IPG saying all its offices <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/read-internal-ipg-coronavirus-memo-confirming-offices-remain-open-2020-3">will stay open amid coronavirus outbreak</a></li><li>Dan Whateley reported that Instagram influencers say brand sponsorships and travel content <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coronavirus-is-affecting-instagram-influencers-brand-sponsorships-2020-3">are taking a major hit as deals get put "on hold until further notice."</a> That's even as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/engagement-on-instagram-sponsored-posts-rises-as-coronavirus-spreads-2020-3">engagement on Instagram sponsored posts has soared the last two weeks.</a></li><li>Disney has closed its parks around the world and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-revenue-loss-if-us-parks-close-30-days-analysts-2020-3">risks losing $2 billion in revenue if they remain shuttered for 30 days,</a> Ashley Rodriguez reported. </li></ul>Lastly, coronavirus concerns have reached those planning to go to space. Dave Mosher reported that NASA is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-nasa-limits-commercial-crew-astronaut-contact-covid-19-outbreak-2020-3">limiting access to astronauts scheduled to fly</a> on SpaceX's first spaceship for people.Stay safe.-- Matt <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-influencer-creator-crash-course-how-to-make-money-ads-2020-2">CRASH COURSE: An influencer explains how YouTube ads work, her advice for making more money, and how much she earns</a></h3>

What coronavirus means for your industry

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of <keyword id="9095853" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="insider-today">Insider Today</keyword>. Please <a href="https://www.insider.com/insider-today">sign up here</a>.<h2>QUOTE OF THE DAY</h2>"None of us lie." — <a href="https://apnews.com/861559a7c67083f67bc550637db2bc7b">White House coronavirus task force member Admiral Brett Giroir</a>, when asked about President Trump's insinuation that government agencies are lying to the public about COVID to influence the election.<h2>WHAT'S HAPPENING</h2>The pandemic continues to spread unchecked. California and Oregon are shutting back down. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-texas-coronavirus-outbreak-got-out-of-control-2020-7">Texas is in terrible shape</a>. Coronavirus testing sites are overwhelmed, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/drive-thru-coronavirus-testing-lines-photos-2020-7">as these remarkable aerial photos of lines</a> demonstrate. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/unemployment-benefits-expiring-coronavirus/">White House signals willingness to extend extra unemployment benefits.</a> More than 30 million people are receiving an additional $600 per week, a benefit that expires at the end of July. Democrats want a significant extension, but many Republicans say it's too generous. The White House seems ready to accept an extension with a smaller payment. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-government-announces-plan-to-remove-huawei-from-uk-5g-2020-7">The UK will remove Huawei from its 5G network.</a> The British government is going along with strict US sanctions against the Chinese company. The ban will delay 5G rollout in the UK by at least two years. On Monday, the US-opposed Chinese land claims in the South China Sea, US-China relations may be <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/world/asia/cold-war-china-us.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=HomepageHomepage">at their lowest point</a> in half-a-century. Alabama, Texas, and Maine hold primaries today. The biggest race is for the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/seeking-comeback-sessions-faces-tuberville-in-alabama-race-2020-7">Alabama Senate seat,</a> where Jeff Sessions is trying to defeat a Trump-backed college football coach. Maine Democrats will choose the November opponent for Sen. Susan Collins. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-of-sailors-fighting-uss-bonhomme-richard-fire-2020-7">Navy sailors are still trying to quench the fire on the Bonhomme Richard. </a>The huge amphibious assault ship mysteriously caught fire in San Diego, has been severly damaged by the 1,000 degree blaze, and is now listing. <h2>VIEWS OF THE DAY</h2><div type="image" title="coronavirus mask hand out" height="1250" width="2500" msid="76967843" hostid="261"></div>The Great Mask War may finally be ending.The culture war is everywhere, but no theatre of conflict has been more pointlessly destructive than The Great Mask War.Wearing a mask will not protect you from contracting COVID, but it <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/face-masks-effective-in-protecting-against-coronavirus-2020-6">greatly mitigates the chance</a> that you will spread it to someone else. Given the long incubation period, and the fact that many people are carriers of the virus without ever experiencing noticeable symptoms, it's the simplest gesture of social responsibility available.But for nearly the past four months, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-decision-to-oppose-masks-bizarre-self-sabotaging-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-6">President Trump has refused</a> to wear a mask in public for fear of projecting "weakness."His followers noticed, and responded with disgraceful displays of vice signaling.That's why even when there's no government mandate to do so, like in a private business, many Trumpists have thrown shameful tantrums based upon the idea that covering their mouths and noses is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-americans-wearing-masks-show-disapproval-not-as-preventive-measure-2020-6">the second coming of the Redcoats</a>. Then the coronavirus surged in a cluster of red states. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-face-masks-comments-american-obligation-trump-coronavirus-2020-5">Mitch McConnell found</a> his mask religion. And <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wears-face-mask-in-public-for-first-time-coronavirus-2020-7">even Trump finally</a> wore a mask in public. A new <a href="https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-poll-americans-masks-coronavirus-republicans-b541c968-7cb2-4bef-af6d-34f4f61e8df9.html">Axios/Ipsos poll shows 62% of Americans</a> wear a mask "all the time" in public, an increase of nine percentage points from two weeks ago. Just 45% Republicans said they wear a mask all the time in public, but that's up a full 10 percentage points over the same timeframe. Now that Trump has quietly ceded the mask fight and the coronavirus besieges red states, public mask compliance will likely only increase, and exposing your germs in public to own the libs will soon become passe.It'd be great if this pointless culture war fight became a teachable moment, but I'm not holding my breath that any lessons have been learned. — AFStop being so stingy with the next rescue package, Mitch. <div type="image" title="FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to questions during a news conference following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell is emerging the GOP's mask spokesman, the highest ranking Republican in Congress proselytizing about the importance of wearing a face covering during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)" height="1998" width="3996" msid="76967845" hostid="261"></div>The federal deficit<a href="https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/"> ran a record $863 billion in June</a>, and yet the federal government can still borrow ginormous sums of money without driving up interest rates. That's because the giant pool of capital sloshing around the world still sees US government securities as a safe investment. So why are congressional Republicans and the President being so miserly with the next disaster relief bill?The economy had been limping out of recession. Thanks to the blazing pandemic, it's now barely crawling. Nothing can't revive unless schools and childcare centers reopen for in-person learning, and that will require tens or hundreds of billions for staffing and space modification. The end of expanded unemployment benefits will make life precarious for tens of millions of people. Millions have lost health insurance. Hospitals need money, Local and state governments have never been so stretched, Small businesses have burned through their PPP funds and yet demand for their services hasn't returned because COVID rages. Given the scale of the disaster and the looming election, you'd expect everyone in Washington to want to spend drunkenly, wildly. House Democrats sure do. They have passed a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-13/stimulus-talks-at-standstill-with-gop-yet-to-agree-on-a-proposal">$3 trillion relief bill, and are now pushing for another $430 billion for schools</a> and childcare. But Republicans and the White House are countering with a $1 trillion ceiling. The Republican bills taking shape would offer very little to desperate local and state governments, shrink or eliminate the extra unemployment benefits, narrow who's eligible for a second round of stimulus checks, and give little to schools. Why so skinflint? The best chance the GOP has to prevent electoral catastrophe is a massive government rescue package that perks up the economy for November. It's also, incidentally, the best way for the nation to avoid a long-term recession. And it's affordable, since the world is more than happy to loan the feds money at minimal interest rates. In theory, and only when a Democrat is president, Senate Republicans object to wanton deficit spending. But why let that theory rule them right now, when it hurts the country and hurts their own interests? It's a bizarre time to let principle triumph over <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword>. And presumably they won't let it. The White House <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/unemployment-benefits-expiring-coronavirus/">signaled today </a>that it will accept a more generous package of unemployment benefits. Ultimately, Trump and the Senate will complain and complain and then agree to a bill that's closer to $3 trillion than $1 trillion. — DPIf you're enjoying this story, <a href="https://www.insider.com/insider-today">sign up now for the Insider Today newsletter</a> to receive more of these insights from Henry Blodget and David PlotzPerhaps you're confused about <keyword id="9289051" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cancel-culture">cancel culture</keyword>...Read Ross Douthat's New York Times column about it. If you're like me, the <a href="https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/">letters</a> and <a href="https://theobjective.substack.com/p/a-more-specific-letter-on-justice">counter-letters</a> about "cancel culture," the Twitter feuds and reverse dunks, have left you cross-eyed and your brain in tangle. Douthat's piece is probably a grotesque simplification, and likely wrong, and certainly just a middle-aged conservative white guy's perspective, but it has the virtue of creating an easy-to-follow framework for trying to understand what cancellation is or is not, what the internet has to do with it, whether the right and left practice it equally, and what to do about it if you oppose it. — DPIf you know where "cancel culture" came from, it's a lot easier to understand what it is (and calm down about it)Yes, Plotz, Ross writes a nice column. But you can't talk about "cancel culture" (as we are debating it right now) unless you talk about where it comes from — the Black community. From there it was quickly adopted by the LGBTQ and other communities of color.It comes from people who, historically, have not had power. And that's what cancel culture is about, using power to shape norms and values.It was created because Black people grew tired of constantly trying to explain racism and how it appears in the world to people who don't experience or see it. Instead, thanks to social media and video evidence of racism, they can use their collective power to shame people for racist behavior and tell them to go away — to cancel them. This usually comes along with advice to read a book about racism (good advice in any situation) or Google any questions about why the behavior was offensive.Like a lot of things that bubble up from the Black community and become huge (twerking, for example), cancel culture wasn't created with everyone's consumption in mind. Too late. Now it belongs to the whole internet, so is it going to be ridiculous sometimes? You bet. Will it seem, sometimes, like it's unfair and that someone has real questions to ask? Yessir. But do Black people have every right to be tired after years of having their concerns about racism ignored? Without question.Cancel culture's power is being used to change and mold American values, so of course it's extremely uncomfortable work. When Twitter users share videos of "Karens" and what happens when they yell racist things in a grocery store or refuse to wear <keyword id="9418" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="masks">masks</keyword> in public, they are sharing parables. These are morality tales of how not to behave in society. And in a country where the President is racist, sexist, and homophobic in word and policy — where his inherent hyper-individualism is making it difficult to survive a pandemic — there is a vacuum for that kind of moral clarity on what is pro-social behavior. As Douthat points out, it certainly isn't coming from the right, so it's coming from the left.He also, correctly, points out that cancel culture isn't new, he reminds us that conservatives canceled the Dixie Chicks (now just The Chicks) when they spoke out against President George W. Bush, for example. What's new here is who has the collective power to do the canceling. That is making people with real individual power very uncomfortable.A lot of the people upset about cancel culture are poo-pooing from the perch of their New York Times columns or on the wings of their massive Twitter followings. They are not being canceled, and their views are being heard. They get to write letters in august magazines signed by professors and thought leaders. The creators of "cancel culture" still do not have that privilege. Individually, they do not have the power. It is this lack of consciousness about power that makes this debate so exhausting, especially at a time when real power in Washington is being used to curtail the rights of millions of Americans. Is Black Twitter building a guillotine in Times Square? No. Is the mob taking away people's rights to vote? No. Do the authorities have to listen to the cancel mob? No.For what it's worth, Elon Musk and his mob of Twitter fans <a href="https://slate.com/business/2018/07/elon-musks-attacks-on-reporter-linette-lopez-need-to-stop.html">tried to cancel me once</a> and I'm still here standing. If this happens to you on the internet, mute liberally, block liberally. In real life you can probably avoid cancellation by wearing a mask, not saying the "n" word, and treating people the way you'd like to be treated. You'll manage to survive the cancel wars that way. — LL<h2>BUSINESS &amp; ECONOMY</h2><div type="image" title="FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump's name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, in San Antonio. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in coronavirus relief payments have been sent to people behind bars across the United States, and now the IRS is asking state officials to help claw back the cash that the federal tax agency says was mistakenly sent. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)" height="1756" width="3511" msid="76967849" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/jpmorgan-q2-earnings-beat-estimates-investment-banking-outperforms-2020-7-1029391672">JPMorgan Chase beat second quarter expectations. </a>Revenue from investment banking nearly doubled and net revenue rose 15 percent to $33.8 billion. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/oatly-scores-2-billion-valuation-backing-blackstone-oprah-wsj-2020-7-1029391050#">Swedish oat-milk giant raises $200 million on a $2 billion valuation. </a>Oatly, which is backed by Blackstone, Oprah, and Natalie Portman, will use the cash to diversify its products. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-stimulus-checks-dead-people-direct-payments-return-coronavirus-2020-7">The IRS says stimulus checks issued to dead people don't need to be returned.</a> The agency is cancelling the checks, which total $1.4 billion of $269 billion paid out. <h2>LIFE</h2><div type="image" title="george conway kellyanne conway" height="960" width="1920" msid="76967853" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/15-racist-brand-mascots-and-logos-2014-6#crazy-horse-malt-liquor-1992-2001-15">There sure were a lot of racist brands and mascots</a>. A shocking list of some of the extremely racist logos, brands, and mascots that have been abandoned, or are about to be. <a href="https://www.insider.com/claudia-conway-to-delete-social-media-accounts-at-parents-request-2020-7">Claudia Conway will delete her social media accounts, at her parents' direction.</a> The daughter of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway and Trump critic George Conway had gained a huge following for her anti-Trump messages. "My parents are forcing me to delete social media so this is my last tweet."<h2>THE BIG 3*</h2><div type="image" title="Wayfair" height="1000" width="2000" msid="76967855" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/comet-neowise-rising-above-earth-astronaut-2020-7">A jaw-dropping video of the comet Neowise. </a>Astronauts on the ISS recorded the comet rising above the earth. <a href="https://www.insider.com/white-couple-charged-video-beating-black-hotel-employee-racist-slur-2020-7">White couple charged after being filmed beating a Black hotel worker. </a>The Connecticut hotel clerk says the couple called her a "monkey" during a dispute over hot water. <a href="https://www.insider.com/wayfair-human-trafficking-conspiracy-theory-tied-to-qanon-2020-7">How QAnon fueled a loony theory about Wayfair.</a> The conspiracy group circulated a claim that Wayfair was trafficking children while pretending to sell furniture. *The most popular stories on Insider today.

The Great Mask War is finally ending. It was so stupid.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6355315" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elon-musk">Elon Musk</keyword> escalated his years-long feud with <keyword id="191583" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jeff-Bezos">Jeff Bezos</keyword> in a new <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/style/elon-musk-maureen-dowd.html">interview with The New York Times</a>. </li><li>Musk appeared to call Bezos too old and Bezos reusable rocket company, <keyword id="199288" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Blue-Origin">Blue Origin</keyword>, too slow to ever accomplish its goal of sending people to the moon. </li><li>Musk and Bezos have been feuding over <keyword id="41531" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="space">space</keyword> travel for years. Musk has called Bezos a copycat and Bezos has called the idea of colonizing Mars — a main goal of <keyword id="6360701" type="DEFINITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="spacex">SpaceX</keyword> — "un-motivating."</li></ul>Elon Musk has made another jab at Jeff Bezos, the latest escalation of a years-long feud between the two billionaires over their competing space ambitions. Over the weekend, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/style/elon-musk-maureen-dowd.html">The New York Times' Maureen Dowd</a> published a wide-ranging interview with Musk that touched on everything from his girlfriend, Grimes, and their new baby, X, to the coronavirus and Musk's wealth. When discussing SpaceX, the space exploration company Musk leads that recently helped send astronauts into space, Bezos' name came up. Musk took the opportunity to make a dig at the Amazon CEO, who founded a reusable rocket company called Blue Origin, which hopes to send people to the moon. Musk appeared to call Bezos too old and Blue Origin too slow to ever accomplish that goal. "The rate of progress is too slow and the amount of years he has left is not enough, but I'm still glad he's doing what he's doing with Blue Origin," Musk said. While Musk and Bezos mostly operate in different industries on Earth, the two moguls have been feuding over space for over 15 years. Bezos founded Blue Origin, in 2000, while Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. Things heated up two years later, when the pair met for dinner to discuss their space ambitions."I actually did my best to give good advice, which he largely ignored," Musk said after the meeting.Things escalated in 2013, when SpaceX tried to get exclusive use of a NASA launch pad and Blue Origin (along with SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance) filed a formal protest with the government. Musk called it a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-fights-disagreements-insults-list-2019-6#spacex-told-nasa-it-wanted-to-use-the-pad-exclusively-but-then-blue-origin-and-united-launch-alliance-a-rival-of-spacex-filed-a-joint-protest-with-the-government-musk-dubbed-the-move-a-phony-blocking-tactic-6">"phony blocking tactic"</a> and SpaceX eventually <a href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=35871X943606&amp;isjs=1&amp;jv=14.1.5-stackpath&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ftech-rivalries-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-steve-jobs-2020-3%23elon-musk-and-jeff-bezos-1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fsciencemain%2Fspacex-wins-nasas-nod-take-over-historic-launch-pad-39a-2D11741834&amp;xguid=&amp;xs=1&amp;xtz=240&amp;xuuid=1d552af4c1f86da0977090e71d2d8bcc&amp;xjsf=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5Df=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5D">won the right to take over the pad</a>. Months later, the two companies <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-fights-disagreements-insults-list-2019-6#blue-origin-filed-a-patent-for-the-concept-in-2010-and-it-was-granted-in-2014-musk-wasnt-happy-since-drone-ships-are-key-to-spacexs-plans-to-reuse-boosters-spacex-didnt-want-to-pay-bezos-company-to-use-a-drone-ship-9">got into a patent battle</a>, and soon after, Bezos and Musk took their feud public, <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/669194136248041472">trading barbs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/679116636310360067">on Twitter</a>.Bezos has frequently criticized the idea of colonizing Mars — a main goal of SpaceX — describing the idea as "un-motivating." Once, <a href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=35871X943606&amp;isjs=1&amp;jv=14.1.5-stackpath&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ftech-rivalries-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-steve-jobs-2020-3%23elon-musk-and-jeff-bezos-1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Ftechnology-35285321&amp;xguid=&amp;xs=1&amp;xtz=240&amp;xuuid=1d552af4c1f86da0977090e71d2d8bcc&amp;xjsf=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5Df=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5D">when the BBC asked</a> Musk about Bezos, he responded, "Jeff who?" More recently, Musk has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-calls-for-breaking-up-amazon-over-coronavirus-book-2020-6">called Amazon a monopoly</a> and tweeted that it should be broken up. He's also called Bezos a copycat for <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1115764921482919937">Amazon's plan to launch internet-beaming satellites</a> and for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-copy-cat-amazon-acquired-zoox-2020-6">acquiring self-driving-taxi company Zoox</a>, as both are industries Musk currently operates in.

Elon Musk appeared to imply that Jeff Bezos is too old and Blue Origin is 'too slow' to reach the moon

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="139623" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="RBC-Capital-Markets">RBC Capital Markets</keyword> is rolling out the RBCCM U.S. <keyword id="1862" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="kids">Kids</keyword> Club, a new virtual summer camp-inspired program to keep its employees' children occupied while at home this summer</li><li>Staff from the bank are volunteering to teach online classes and lead courses meant to keep their kids entertained</li><li>Among activities kids can partake in: pre-recorded story time, weekly sing-alongs, live workshops, and even classes on learning how to code — all taught by RBC staff themselves.</li><li>Are you a young person working on <keyword id="42111" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wall-Street">Wall Street</keyword>? Contact this reporter via email at <a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #185f7d; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" href="mailto:rhodkin@businessinsider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rhodkin@businessinsider.com</a>, encrypted messaging app Signal (561-247-5758), or direct message on Twitter <a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #185f7d; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" href="https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Freedalexander%3Flang%3Den&amp;v=3;v=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@reedalexander</a>.</li></ul>Everyone from managing directors all the way down to analysts at RBC Capital Markets are being tasked with pleasing their toughest customers yet during the pandemic: kids.In early July, the capital-markets arm of Canadian bank RBC rolled out a new internal summer program, RBCCM U.S. Kids Club, a digital suite of activities designed to keep kids of the firm's employees, who are still working from home, busy during an otherwise dull summer spent largely indoors.Among the events that the firm is offering to kids: pre-recorded story time sessions, weekly sing-alongs, portrait-drawing classes, and live workshops where kids can learn how to code using Ruby, a coding language for beginners; develop skills for managing their finances; or hear about what a day might be like in the life of a trader or a banker."We've heard from a lot of our employees who are parents about how difficult it is to manage working from home, together with having kids underfoot with little or no outside activity," Liz Lieberman, the head of US human resources at RBC Capital Markets, told Business Insider in an interview."The problem is particularly acute during the summer months when there's no school and no camp," she added, so the bank decided to launch this new internal program to help its beleaguered staff, and their equally cooped-up kids.The pandemic, Lieberman said, has gone on "longer than anybody thought, and [has been] very, very difficult without having child care." This new program is one way RBC is trying to help. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-bankers-detail-work-from-home-setups-and-challenges-2020-3?r=reed">Toddler meltdowns and spilled milk. Here's how Wall Street's high-flying — now grounded — bankers are working from home.</a>The Kids Club events are conducted using Webex, and a range of RBC employees at all levels of seniority have volunteered to pitch in their time. Lieberman estimated that about 40 RBC staffers have volunteered to help lead sessions of the program. Even Lieberman's husband is involved: He helps lead a sing-along session for kids ages 2 to 6 every week.<h2>A long, hot summer stuck indoors</h2>As America continues to struggle with an intense summer spike in coronavirus infections, parents have adjusted to a new reality that they never could have predicted earlier this spring: keeping their kids home indefinitely.Summer camp has proven to be a nonstarter for many <keyword id="46242" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="families">families</keyword> this year: A <a href="https://campminder.com/go/category/camp-marketing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey of 885 summer camps</a> conducted in June by CampMinder found that as many as 62% of camps — nearly two in three — were planning to stay closed for the summer months.Meanwhile, whether or not school districts will reopen this fall has become a political flashpoint, with many districts opting for largely virtual solutions or delayed start dates for now.See more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/charles-schwab-virtual-summer-internships-hiring-remote-tips-for-success-2020-7?r=reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Schwab will offer half of its virtual interns full-time jobs in the coming weeks. From what to wear to how to stay organized, a talent exec at the brokerage giant shares ways to impress remotely.</a>Even if it's an option available to them, mounting data suggest that many parents are wary of sending their kids back to the classroom.As many as 71% of American parents viewed sending their kids back to school as a large or moderate health risk, <a href="https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-index-poll-parents-schools-risk-ccf95453-9f99-4e3a-a4cc-eb0188bf6da3.html">according to one poll</a> conducted by Axios and the survey group Ipsos earlier this month.<h2>RBC is encouraging its staff to take time off to stave off work burnout at home</h2>For its part, RBC Capital Markets says it has no timeline in place for when to bring its workers back to the office, so, for now, they're staying home."We're following CDC guidelines," Lieberman said. "We're putting our employees' health first, and so we don't have a date that we are officially opening," she added, noting that the firm is closely monitoring data about the spread of the virus to inform its decisions on a possible timeline for returning to work.Looking forward, she said, the new RBC U.S. Kids Club may be here to stay — at least through the eventual conclusion of the pandemic.In the meantime, she noted, RBC has circulated internal resources among its staff to promote mental well-being during a time of remote work, from making counselors available to speak with employees, to sharing special podcasts that the firm produced on topics like resilience. One of them involved an interview with Chris Hadfield, a former Canadian astronaut who shared advice for staying positive during isolation.Another effort RBC Capital Markets is making is to encourage its staff to take some time off to combat fatigue and burnout."You wake up in the morning, you start your computer," she explained, "you don't get out of the house — it can be draining, so we are definitely encouraging people to take some time away from the office, even if it's at home."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-real-estate-remote-work-wework-wells-fargo-citi-2020-7?r=reed">Wells Fargo is ditching a 750-person WeWork space, while Citi inked a deal with the flex-office giant far from a big city. Here's a look at how financial firms are retooling their real</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-real-estate-remote-work-wework-wells-fargo-citi-2020-7"> estate.</a>Indeed, <a href="https://www.hcamag.com/ca/specialization/mental-health/covid-19-why-burnout-is-on-the-rise/222188">a recent survey conducted in May</a> by the publication Human Resources Director found that 73% of workers reported feeling exhausted while working remotely during the pandemic. The leading cause: "No separation between work and life."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/4-ways-leaders-encourage-employees-take-time-off-this-summer-2020-7https://www.businessinsider.com/opendoor-chief-people-officer-questions-ask-working-parents-remote?r=reed"></a>RBC isn't the only firm that's taking steps to make employees' lives easier during stressful times: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apollo-head-of-talent-talks-hiring-mba-recruiting-private-equity-2020-7">Business Insider previously reported</a> that Apollo Global Management is offering staff the chance to attend virtual meditation sessions and children's book readings during the pandemic.Are you a young person working on Wall Street? Contact this reporter via email at <a href="mailto:rhodkin@businessinsider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rhodkin@businessinsider.com</a>, encrypted messaging app Signal (561-247-5758), or direct message on Twitter <a href="https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Freedalexander%3Flang%3Den&amp;v=3;v=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@reedalexander</a>.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rbc-makes-key-hires-distressed-debt-trading-amid-credit-rout-2020-4?r=reed">RBC is snapping up key hires in distressed-credit trading as Wall Street preps for a feeding frenzy</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-summer-internship-virtual-remote-coronavirus-2020-5?r=reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morgan Stanley's head of HR lays out how to impress in a virtual internship and land a banking job at the end of the summer</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jefferies-ceo-rich-handler-hosts-zoom-lunch-social-media-2020-7?r=reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One of Wall Street's highest-paid CEOs is hosting a virtual lunch with followers of finmeme account Litquidity. Jefferies' Rich Handler explained how he's 'trying to help in a small way while the world is so upside down.'</a>

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