Biden's campaign may want to try this simple 'message' on for size
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The 2020 election is now fewer than 90 days away. It seems unlikely that too many people’s lives are going to change in any appreciable way during those days. The COVID-19 pandemic is going to keep everyone mostly at home; few big vacationBiden's campaign may want to try this simple 'message' on for size
The 2020 election is now fewer than 90 days away. It seems unlikely that too many people’s lives are going to change in any appreciable way during those days. The COVID-19 pandemic is going to keep everyone mostly at home; few big vacations will be planned by anyone, and travel will remain largely at a standstill. People will continue to be able to go out to eat and shop in a limited, frustrating way. State governments will reopen certain businesses, then close them again in exasperating fits and starts as the virus continues to spread essentially unchecked throughout the country, due in large part to reckless behavior like this. No new testing regime will be implemented. By now, in most places, it’s too late to implement comprehensive contact tracing, even if there was the political will to do so. Businesses, except for those that are “essential,” will continue to flounder, for the most part, as people remain too fearful to make large purchases. It doesn’t appear that Republicans are interested in providing more meaningful assistance to those out of work due to this crisis, and even if they have a last-minute change of heart, the aid that will be provided doesn’t seem like it will make any significant difference to the economy beyond keeping people from starving and keeping some being evicted from their homes. If state and local governments are not funded within the next few weeks, another massive round of layoffs is looming, which will send the unemployment numbers into the stratosphere and further crater the idea of any rapid recovery. The Republican Senate majority blocking any attempts to provide for millions of suffering Americans apparently senses its impending demise and has settled on a scorched-earth strategy, which seeks to pin the blame on the states themselves, accusing Democratic-controlled states of seeking “bailouts.” As ridiculous as that is, in the face of an economic crisis that is fast approaching Depression-level impact, that appears to be the hill Republicans have chosen to die on, possibly with a view towards blaming the Democrats for the broad-based economic collapse we’re all but certain to experience going into 2021. Read more