Was Sweden’s Covid-19 lockdown a gamble?
Sweden: In recent months, we have all to some extent become armchair epidemiologists, expressing sadness and anger in equal measure at the alarming mortality rates and stringency of lockdown policies around the world. And yet, as countries around Europe shut down their borders and hospitality establishments due to the Covid-19 outbreak, one country has gone […]
Airbnb chief ethics officer departs
US: Airbnb has parted ways with its chief ethics officer and former general counsel Robert Chesnut. Chesnut, who joined Airbnb as its in-house legal chief in April 2016, left the company on May 27. “I’ll wake up tomorrow without a full time ‘day job’ for the first time since law school,” Chesnut wrote on his […]
Colorado rentals to reopen today
US: The state of Colorado will allow short-term rentals to open starting today, Monday June 1. Julie Sutor, county communications director, said the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment plans to open short-term rentals statewide effective June 1. On May 15, Summit County requested a variance from Governor Jared Polis’ safer-at-home order to open […]