Republicans genuinely believe this whole thing will blow over on its own. If this was only happening in the U.S. then that's not a crazy thought really. But the leaders of the major engines of world productivity, the East Asians and Westerners, are voluntarily shutting down their own economies over this. Do people really think that all of those nations are just spooked by Social Justice Twitter and CNN?Senate Republicans, racing to put their imprint on the crisis response, unveiled a package that would provide hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to big corporations and small businesses, large corporate tax cuts and checks of up to $1,200 for taxpayers. The plan would also place limits on a paid-leave program enacted this week to respond to the crisis.
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But he also injected new uncertainty into the government’s response, suggesting it was not his responsibility to meet the needs of health care workers on the front lines of combating the disease. A day after he said he would use the Defense Production Act — a Korean War-era law that allows presidents to force American industry to ramp up production of critical equipment and supplies — Mr. Trump told reporters that he would rather rely on states to deliver equipment to health care workers.
“The federal government’s not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping,” Mr. Trump said. “You know, we’re not a shipping clerk,” he said, adding that governors “are supposed to be doing it.”
There was never any need to nosedive the economy, if it was OK to isolate Hubei it was OK to isolate China - however much they whined about racism.uziq wrote:
good luck trying to get the world’s politicians to jerk the global economy into a nosedive in week 2 of the outbreak in china. evidently all you could convince republican politicians to do at that juncture was rearrange their stocks portfolio.
Thats the thing if you only care about money and not people.SuperJail Warden wrote:
I think I know what is happening. The Republicans are treating this like it is an economic crisis and not a slow rolling disaster. Their typical solutions of tax cuts and free market isn't prepared for something like this. They think this is like the Great Recession when it is instead a slow rolling 9/11 with the global potential to kill as many people as 20 years of the Global War on terrorism is a faster time. 13,000 deaths in 3 months and growing. Those are early Syrian Civil War numbers.
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Every nation or state which can close its borders should do so.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Europe is a shit show right now. If there was anyone to take lessons from it would have been the Japanese. They live on an island the America is kind of like an island.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51981627Doctors are terrified. They know America's hospitals are about to be hit by a tsunami of infected patients and they don't have enough beds or ventilators to treat them. They don't even have basic protective gear to keep their staff healthy.
In America it is impossible to find anyone who openly admits to voting for Bush. I have heard so many people talk about how much they hated Bush but love Trump. If Trump loses in 2020 and a lot of people die in this pandemic, a lot of Republicans will be talking about how much they hated Trump and never voted for him before voting for Tom Cotton (R).uziq wrote:
now all the libertarians and freedom fighters can see their conspiracy theories about 'the deep state' play out.
