fuck kind of economy you think we'll have with over a million dead in 18 months plus many millions more newly disabled, some severely, maybe permanently
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what kills me (not literally, yet! but lots of other people, unfortunately!) is how absolutely short-sighted the "but the economy!" garbage is. it's not really "but the economy!", it's "but the upcoming quarterly investor call!".https://twitter.com/LauraMiers/status/1429054646232956933 …
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if you cared about "the economy" and weren't using "the economy" to mean "short-term balance sheets and CEO bonuses" the solution was to shut everything down and print money to pay people to stay home, a year and a half ago.
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(obviously there's complications to that idea too and there's a lot of logistics that would've had to be worked out and so forth, please don't @ me with "you forgot about XYZ", the point is "shutdown, pay people to stay home" is the CENTRAL thing we should've but didn't do)
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anyway remember how there was a whole pandemic playbook the Obama administration prepared, and the trump administration ignored it and disbanded the advisory group of experts, and how the USPS had a plan to provide everyone with masks and trump was like "nah"
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EXCELLENT point.
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I think about this article a lot:https://twitter.com/tiffanygholar/status/1242147805805850624?s=19 …
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There seems to be a prevalent school of thought that doing nothing should be modeled as no additional cost, and that any criticism of that model is wrong and "we have to agree to disagree".
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Climate, poverty, COVID, wars, model it wrong and stubbornly insist the model is at least as right as any other. Also insist that any changes to a plan or model are an inherent sign of weakness.
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This has been one of those rhetorical things that has repeatedly irked me through this whole pandemic. Having customers that are alive and well is kind of important for the economy!
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customers and workers!
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