Every Western government: "if you are not vaksed, you are taking the ICU bed of someone who might die."
Also every Western government: "it is literally impossible to build new hospitals, but we sure can bail out every service industry and let big pharma remove price controls."
Conversation
Airline: "pwease bail us out, we're losing money here."
Govt: "sure thing!"
Airline: "we fired half our staff and paid executives massive bonuses, we're really struggling to make ends meet now... more money please?"
Govt: "can do!"
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Emergency powers to fix supply line issues we created?
Do give us that.
Emergency powers to impose mass vaccination mandates w/contracts the pharmaceuticals got to write themselves?
We need this.
Emergency powers to... increase hospital capacity?
No way, that's crazy.
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I thought the Obama era upward wealth transfer was insane, but it seems the overarching motif of 2019+ has been "what if 2008, but globally?"