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There are enough people generally out of work to hire all the contact tracers we could ever need.

• bobthepanda 6y ago
  You do have to pay people money to hire them though, and states and cities do not have the financial slack to just hire more people as tax revenues keep falling. The only entity capable of nationwide deficit spending is the federal government, which seems unwilling to step up to the plate.
  • pmiller2 6y ago
    Exactly my point. The question is: why?
    • bobthepanda 6y ago
      States and cities often have balanced budget laws. Even if these were repealed (look how easy that has been for the Eurozone), states do not have the mechanism for bankruptcy (see: Puerto Rico). And cities have one but it can get extremely messy (see: Detroit, New York in the '70s) The feds have decided to prioritize the economy in an election year, for some short-sighted definition of a good economy. And the party in power has never liked a strong federal government anyways.
      • pmiller2 6y ago
        My question was regarding the federal government's involvement. I can't fathom why they would let so many people die, unless we elected hundreds of sociopaths to federal office.