Wow, almost like this is a problem you could solve by printing money to pay those producers to stay solvent (Same shit as ever, this is why people were outraged at FDR "paying farmers to plow their crop under")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DemocratsCongr2 and
We have two obvious problems 1) You can't go outside and keep working like normal without getting sick 2) People, at all levels of the economy, need to keep getting *paid* like normal or the system will break down and not be there after the plague is over
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DemocratsCongr2 and
One side is saying you can short circuit this apparent dilemma by "paying people to do nothing", keep as much of the system going as possible *except* for the part where people actually do the jobs that get them exposed to the virus
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DemocratsCongr2 and
Other people are so horrified by this solution that they'd prefer to just pretend problem 1) doesn't exist at all The only way to keep the farmers farming and so forth is to actually still have the restaurants open like normal, everyone getting infected, and bodies piling up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DemocratsCongr2 and
We'll see which one ends up working out, although I suspect once the second wave of deaths hits full swing you'll find persuading people to still go eat at those restaurants is harder than you expected
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I agree that it’s a complicated issue with no easy/clear answer, especially in the long term. But destroying the lives of 10s of millions of people is a tough sell. Especially when the ones making those decisions have their jobs well secured.
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Replying to @DemocratsCongr2 @arthur_affect and
By opening things back up you'd be LITERALLY destroying thousands of lives by ending them.
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Replying to @mxanthropology @arthur_affect and
Social distancing was never meant to prevent the total amount of cases over time, it was meant to flatten the curve so hospitals weren’t overloaded. We have seen that hospitals are doing well. It’s still likely that most of the population will get the virus at some point.
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Replying to @DemocratsCongr2 @mxanthropology and
Jesus Christ "Flattening the curve" doesn't mean letting it dip and then spike upwards again
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mxanthropology and
It means not overloading the healthcare system. Which it’s accomplished thus far.
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So let's go right ahead and overload it now without having actually changed anything
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