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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Mar 2020

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      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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      NEW: Trump began talking privately late last week about reopening the nation, against the advice of health professionals, because he's worried about the economy https://trib.al/B9aQVHZ 
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Mar 2020

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      2. Yglesias gets at the problem here. The strategy (if you want to call it that) of letting the pandemic run wild so we can get back to normal quickly ignores the fact the pandemic running wild will destroy the normal (overwhelm medical system): https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1242037223123542025 …

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Mar 2020

      3. The current discussion shows how views on medicine & economics align. There's a history to this. The 19th centuryAustrian medical school of therapeutic nihilism (which felt diseases should go untreated) was an influence on laissez-faire Austrian economics.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Mar 2020

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Mar 2020

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Mar 2020

      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/ …

      8:19 AM - 23 Mar 2020
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        1. tom‏ @velo340 23 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          You know at heart he just wants to play golf.

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        1. Pradheep J. Shanker‏ @Neoavatara 23 Mar 2020
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          Just so you know....Cuomo just toyed with the concept in his press conference a few minutes ago.

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        1. Keith Bloomquist‏ @kdb150 23 Mar 2020
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          Is he toying with it, or already kind of doing it by not doing anything to make and deliver needed medical supplies? I never thought federalism would save us from an executive branch that is apparently unwilling to do anything to help in a pandemic, but here we are.

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        1. steve the kid‏ @portendrectum 23 Mar 2020
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          He isn’t beginning to toy with this idea, it’s been his idea all along.

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        1. Rootless Cosmopolitan‏ @BrianBuchbinder 23 Mar 2020
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          The only thing "centrist" about Blankfein is that he thinks all the money possible should be "centered" in his pockets.

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        1. Disordered World‏ @disorderedworld 23 Mar 2020
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          The population is divided into a majority with normal human psychology - capable of empathy, love & concern - and a minority whose fixed psychopathology renders them incapable of these emotions & capable only of hatred, violence & greed. Trump & sycophants belong to the latter.

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        1. Hamish Buchanan‏ @HamishBuchanan1 23 Mar 2020
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          Shifting all their investments to funeral service corporations.

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        1. Myles Leach‏ @myinwit 23 Mar 2020
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          I find it beyond belief that such an insane idea is even being discussed. Invoke the 25th Amendment now!

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        1. PacificBailey‏ @PacificBayley 23 Mar 2020
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          Occurs to me this is the perfect example of right wing Republican conservatism. Fundamentally they are for congregating money & resources among the very few richest upper class with crumbs for everyone else. The virus pulls back the curtain & reveals their hatred of the masses.

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        2. AngryGenXGuy‏ @AngryGenXGuy 23 Mar 2020
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          It’s horrible, but if he really wants to do it, just let the meteor fall. These people are immune to reality.

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