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You've rightly identified the question as a false dichotomy. People in the US don't _have_ to die for lack of resources. The state helping the people to surviv
by markvdb 7y ago
You've rightly identified the question as a false dichotomy. People in the US don't _have_ to die for lack of resources.
The state helping the people to survive this crisis or not is a political choice.
- gwright 7y agoI'm not really worried about lack of raw resources and immediate needs. We'll figure that out via a mix of savings, private charity, and local/state/federal assistance. I'm assuming that we'll mitigate the virus via treatments, vaccines, or the brutal reality of acquired immunity. The more difficult political problem is how the financial pain is going to be distributed and how we reboot the economy. How assistance is distributed, taxes are adjusted, or fiscal measures are taken is going to be very complicated with opportunities to create winners and losers based on the policies. So far I'm not particularly impressed by Congress in this area.