The answer is not to reopen the economy; it's to freeze the economy. The government should provide everyone with the economic wherewithal to survive this period without leaving home. It's criminal to make people have to choose between their livelihood and their health.
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Even if we somehow circulated money for that amount of time without working, what are you going to do if this disease lasts for two years? You can’t keep businesses closed that supply goods for two years. Flatten the curve never meant eradicate the disease.
We could create an online WPA public works project, using people's skills to create a blueprint for a world we're recreating. Americans have lost our power of imagination. This is an entirely new kind of crisis and we need an entirely new kind of thinking with which to address it
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Not really an answer to the question. How are goods that aren’t essential now that will be in two years going to be available if people aren’t working? Why don’t we talk about figuring out how to open things back up intelligently and safely?
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Computer stores, manufacturing for construction materials, lots of places that aren’t immediate essential needs will be within six months. Production needs to happen whether or not money circulation is happening.
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Mmmm! Can’t wait for those delicious online burgers that come to my house through my WiFi! And my sick mom getting her chemo and radiation the same way. What a genius idea! Thanks so much.
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It's called grub-hub, or a landline and a take out menu. (Still works since they are essential businesses)
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It's not a new kind of crisis. We've had diseases around for longer than we've had civilization.
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But we have new ways of managing it, if people admit that we are no longer existing in the 1950s
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That sounds perfect to me all I have is crazy ideas to fix the world
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A Course in Miracle!?
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Fabian socialism at work, eh?
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Yes. Everything is socialist. Helping people, being considerate, argyle socks, all of it.
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