Senator pushes Netflix to go free for the winter to combat COVID-19 spread

[Jacob Siegal]

• Maine Senator Angus King wrote a letter to Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Apple, and WarnerMedia this week asking them to make their streaming services free for the winter to fight COVID-19.
• King says it's important to find ways to motivate people to follow the CDC's guidelines and stay home during the holiday season, and free Netflix or Disney+ might help accomplish that.
• Over 17 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the US, as well as 300,000 deaths.

Staying inside has been a necessary evil to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic, and one of the few things that have kept many of us sane while we waste away the hours in our homes has been streaming content. Having virtually unlimited entertainment at our fingertips has made this nightmarish year slightly more tolerable, but not everyone can afford to spend $15/month on a streaming service, much less on more than one. People are struggling to make ends meet, with more than 1.4 million Americans filing new unemployment claims last week alone.

With COVID-19 records being broken every week and a long winter ahead, one senator has made a very interesting proposal involving streaming services that might end up saving lives. On Monday, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) penned a letter to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Hulu, and HBO Max asking them to make their services free to non-subscribers in order to "boost national spirits and protect public health."

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