throw millions of people out of their homes, or soft-ban the provision of rental housing genuinely a really nasty choice
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @bufordsharkley
its bad coming around to thinking lockdown was really a mistake
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now think about the fact that we're doing way better than basically every other country God Bless Jay Powell
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could have had vaccines out by what like may 2020 if the FDA hadnt fucked us
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yes the story of the past year is the economists learned things in the past few decades and acquitted themselves ~perfectly, and then biomedical engineers exceeded all reasonable expectations, and then the public health people just shat all over themselves.
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feels like a fair assessment so far
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'member how "actually travel restrictions make pandemics worse" that was like, the centerpiece of the public health body of knowledge last february the thing is that arresting the spread of communicable diseases has been understood for literally millenia
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oh I was talking about the economists being perfect. that feels tbd although so far so not awful public health officials ought to be drawn and quartered as a class
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Replying to @R1Jack @eigenrobot and
it matters within certain parameters the problem with MMT isn't "you can borrow until you run into inflation" it's "and therefore buy All The Healthcare"
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a second problem is that just because you can doesnt mean you should
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Replying to @eigenrobot @R1Jack and
my pithy line I give people is that spending is good because it increases the deficit, but bad because it creates jobs
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Replying to @sgodofsk @eigenrobot and
if you're going to run deficits pls do it with tax cuts tyvm
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