1. Trump is flirting with the idea of scaling back the emergency response (including social distancing protocol) so the economy can get back to normal. But this goes beyond Trump: many on right, wall street & even centrists (Tom Friedman, Blankfein) want this. It's dangerous.https://twitter.com/business/status/1242076554232041477 …
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4. There's a fundamental divide with therapeutic nihilism and Austrian economics on one side (arguing against heroic interventions in medicine & economics) as against epidemiology and Keynesian economics on other side (arguing for action to ameliorate health & economic problems)
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5. I think Trump, his Wall Street whisperers, Fox News and dingbat centrists (Friedman, Blankfein) are engaged in self-interested reasoning: they don't want massive state intervention in economy, so they are trying to wish away the pandemic, thinking it can disappear soon.
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6. Some thoughts on the current surge of Let-Them-Die arguments in the pandemic, and the choices we face:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-fox-pandemic-nihilism/ …
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Widespread infection — 30 to 40 percent with a 1 to 2 percent fatality rate — will kill at least 1 million people and bring the economy to a halt anyway... Trump will take us from crisis to apocalypse.
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