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It's been in the upper eighties and nineties here, and we still have virus, so tell your BIL it doesn't work.

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It may be a bad thing, but I do hope he and Pence get a dose. They need it. It might humble them. Someone should float a rumor that twitter give it to you.

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I won't take the Kushner version. No way in hell I'm gonna get a vaccine rushed into production by a lot of idiots.

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It will be a Jackson Pollack recovery: paint splattered everywhere.

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Gout beckons.

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When the hyper-inflation starts, we will look back on Spring 2020 as the good times. Post-WW I Weimar Republic redux, except Der Führer is already in place, but only until January 2021, Crom willing.

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Tell your idiot libertarian brother in law that the people of Spain would like a word.

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Seize the business, sell it off, and give the proceeds to the employees.

They wanna whine about socialism so much? We'll give some socialism to whine about. Some real fucking socialism, and actual goddamn confiscation and redistribution of your wealth. Maybe once they see what the actual definition really looks like, they'll stop labelling every damn thing that might possibly help some average schmuck somewhere have a slightly less sucktastic existence "socialism."

(Narrator: they did not stop labelling every damn thing that might possibly help some average schmuck somewhere have a slightly less sucktastic existence, "socialism.")

...note: not entirely convinced this is a good idea....

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Watch to see if any of these businesses contributed to the politicians' campaigns... Cronyism is strong amongst the Mormon ruling class.

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I read this post, went to CNN to check. Yes, yes, yes!

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The Trump and Wall St money traders want a V shaped recovery. With a resurge of cases after the tsunami of stupid re-openings, some predict a W shaped chart of economic activity. For half of the 30 million recently unemployed it will be an ‘L’ shaped recovery.......there won’t be one. The next stimulus money approved, (if they can work out the corporations-have-no-liability for anything clause), should be only for food, food stamps, food pantries, food banks, and getting food that was going to be plowed under to hungry communities. Trump is planning a July 4th grand reopening celebration, while the country is planning funerals.

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If they develop a proven effective vaccine, will the enlightened community take it?

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Normally you'd think they could be penalized or sued SOMEHOW for PURPOSEFULLY endangering employees, but they're probably following Mitch mcConnell's lead and hoping they'll get those rules that make employers immune from repercussions of their dickery. Capitalism! Absolutely NOTHING wrong with it at all, you filthy, lazy communists!

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My guess: job losses are going to continue to rise. Some businesses will try to reopen without appropriate abatement policies, creating hot spots. In some cases, these hot spots will spread out and affect a whole state. People will pull back so that even businesses that reopen will not have customers. This will be a vortex that sucks us right into a Depression. Just a guess. Or summer sunshine, as my idiot libertarian brother in law believes, will kill the virus and everything will be over in July.

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https://arstechnica.com/sci...Well, it is 1,000 light years away. So it can claim to not know us.

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Essential workers? or sacrificial? Even the half wits should be able to figure out what would happen to THEM, now that they are hoarding groceries, if all our brothers and sisters in the fields and slaughterhouses would be deported back ‘to where they can from’.

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