For this reflection, I watched Sam’s current news zoom. I have really not been paying attention to news except the corona virus news, so most of this stuff was new to me. One I found most interesting was the flower sector in The Netherlands because I would never imagine that flowers could be such an important factor in an economy. The amount they are going to lose seems insane, especially when talking about flowers. I had also not considered that fact that people were not buying flowers right now simply because there is not need to be buying them right now. An 85% drop is awful.

Before watching this, I was paying attention to the topic of US Prisons, but not into the same amount of depth that it was talked about, so I was glad to have more information on that. I also liked hearing what other countries were doing about it since I had not heard much about that. I had also not heard about the large breakouts occurring but that would make sense. Thinking about the amount of cops out now, I agree with Sam in that I have not seen any out. One think I thought though is that if they are not going to arrest as many people, that is completely fine and I agree with that. However, it seems odd that they would tell the general public about it.

Overall, I enjoyed listening to the current events conversation since I was not up to date on these things, and I got to feel more connected with IA.