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> Public health measures didn't put your family in poverty. The lack of any social safety net in the US did. Stimulus should have gone to people directly and no
by patrick451 4y ago
> Public health measures didn't put your family in poverty. The lack of any social safety net in the US did. Stimulus should have gone to people directly and not companies, but that's communism or something.
No. If the government had not locked down, their family would not have slipped into extreme poverty. Simple as.
- sofixa 4y agoAs Sweden's example shows, no. The economic downturn was due to the pandemic (people being sick and isolating, other people preferring not to travel/go out to avoid getting sick with associated risks for them and friends/family, etc.), not actions trying to combat it.