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It's sound epidemiology, but I still reluctantly disagree on practical/political grounds: 1) There appears to be no serious effort to extend the initial CARE p
by monoideism 6y ago
It's sound epidemiology, but I still reluctantly disagree on practical/political grounds:
1) There appears to be no serious effort to extend the initial CARE payments into the summer and fall. As such, we can't possibly close force more businesses to close and then just stand by as people lose their homes and starve. We're already experiencing significant social instability. We have to be very careful about this, not to mention to core moral issues.
2) Our country is so divided (and most of us have played a role in that, myself included) that it's impossible for the government to order such strict interventions without invoking massive backlash from a significant portion of the population. And again, back to my point about social instability. COVID-19 is far from the worst thing that could happen to the country at this point.
- H8crilA 6y agoCan't argue with that. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.