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    1. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2020

      Little question that if you're talking purely in economic terms, the most cost effective approach is to do a stringent six week shutdown everywhere COVID is raging, foot the bill, support the displaced and come out six weeks later looking like Europe and Asia.

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    2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2020

      2/ A totally different reality is possible and actually doable. But you have to decide to do it. What we have now is economic calamity AND 500-1000 dead every day as far as the eye can see. The worst of both worlds, mutually reinforcing calamities. There's another path.

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    3. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2020

      3/ It requires leadership from the top, which basically can't exist until January at the earliest. Whether the political will will exist even then is unclear.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Aug 2020
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      To pull that off you would need political will, which I think Biden and his people might have but also social capital (cohesiveness & trust). I'm afraid that Trump has depleted that social capital.

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        1. otack85‏ @otack58 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          The best time to test it out is 4 years from the next election.

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        2. Michael‏ @mikel1814 5 Aug 2020
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          And what sucks is that, like Obama, Biden will have to use up all of his new political capital right at ther beginning to fix a fucking problem from the previous administration, leaving him with nothing going into the mid-terms in 2022.

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        3. Just This Guy‏ @justthisguy 5 Aug 2020
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          That depends entirely on whether it works.

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        1. TheTenth‏ @TheTenth2022 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Divisiveness is making people contrary to anything even if it's beneficial or life saving. Biden may only be able to resolve some of that, but I trust him to put in needed experts; get research & organizational management to quickly develop/deliver better treatment/vaccines/PPE.

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