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The impact of the shutdown is starting to take hold: mass unemployment, bankruptcies, relapses, suicides. And yet, the political rhetoric is stuck at "flatten the curve." For all of the bluster about science-driven decisions, we are sliding into a policy-driven depression.
Lower-wage workers are getting crushed, but blue-state politicos are salivating at the "opportunity" to implement a Green New Deal. They seem to think they can accelerate their policy goals by engineering another Great Depression.
The coming months will provide a real-world test for politicians: will they seek to restore the old regime of private property and small-scale financial independence, or will they seek to destroy it in the name of the next Utopia?
There is a group in my state inputting every bankruptcy, layoff, and business closure into a spreadsheet. It's a diner in Cheney, a party store in Spokane, a bar in Yakima. All of their dreams, vanished. If, in a year, the science doesn't justify this, who will pay the price?
I don't think anybody is trying to "engineer a great depression"... That is really dark & cynical... I think what we have is an inability to function between states, cities & federal gov. If we were coordinated at federal level with contact tracing this wouldn't be an issue.
My governor did a livestream and was giddy about the "opportunity" to implement the Green New Deal. LA is shutting down for three more months, despite no surge in cases. Hospitals are on the verge of bankruptcy because they're empty. It's a policy choice.
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