Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[ProfessorDetective]

The frustrating thing is that it's a false choice. Pay individual people recurring stimulus checks, pay non-essential businesses to stay closed, and you don't have this dilemma. People hem and haw about the cost, but I bet you could do it for a lot less than the trillion or so Our Glorious Leader dumped into the economy for the sake of stimulating a stock market line to go up, which then went down. We have the resources, we have the ability, what we lack is the morals and the competence at higher levels of government.

At least we can take comfort in knowing that all that time we spent in lockdown has been utterly squandered by authorities who did not use it to mobilize PPE or do mass testing, and that any good we've done by staying at home is rapidly undone by greedy governors and worthless mayors. .-.

There is a very, very easy answer, but it involves helping people with little power instead of people with all of it, so it's considered unrealistic.

Hear! Freaking! Hear!

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I never throught the economy in that much disarray. It's like if you left your house for a long time and it's like your domestic expenses mostly just involved no income and some electricity usage for your fridge/freezer. You come back home, turn the water heater on etc..

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

what is this about recurring stimulus checks? I only got one.

That's because they only wrote one. I'm saying recurring stimulus checks are a solution that WOULD work, but we won't get that because it would make the peasants too complacent instead of forcing them to choose between work or starve on a daily basis.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

what is this about recurring stimulus checks? I only got one.

That's because they only wrote one. I'm saying recurring stimulus checks are a solution that WOULD work, but we won't get that because it would make the peasants too complacent instead of forcing them to choose between work or starve on a daily basis.

From what I could tell, there was never much of a bipartisan agreement as proposals from both sides didn't pass.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

The USA has 4% of the world's population, but a quarter of the world's Covid19 cases

Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/health/us-coronavirus-toll-in-numbers-june-trnd/index.html

[GreyICE]

what is this about recurring stimulus checks? I only got one.

That's because they only wrote one. I'm saying recurring stimulus checks are a solution that WOULD work, but we won't get that because it would make the peasants too complacent instead of forcing them to choose between work or starve on a daily basis.

Careful, you might end up supporting Universal Basic Income like you're a dirty Commie.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

The USA has 4% of the world's population, but a quarter of the world's Covid19 cases

Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/health/us-coronavirus-toll-in-numbers-june-trnd/index.html

Well if you're gonna tell me a virus is gonna try and stop us from doing things we find important then we're gonna make sure to get together as much as we can. We have values here, we don't just see each other for business.

[clearspira]

The USA has 4% of the world's population, but a quarter of the world's Covid19 cases

Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/health/us-coronavirus-toll-in-numbers-june-trnd/index.html

Well if you're gonna tell me a virus is gonna try and stop us from doing things we find important then we're gonna make sure to get together as much as we can. We have values here, we don't just see each other for business.

And that's why you are all dying. ''Muh freedom''.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I just wish we had the herd immunity too.

[Antiboyscout]

The USA has 4% of the world's population, but a quarter of the world's Covid19 cases

Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/health/us-coronavirus-toll-in-numbers-june-trnd/index.html

That we know of. China's numbers are fake garbage, and the 3rd world simply can't test enough to get numbers.