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How much you want to bet... (Original Post) Ohioboy Apr 2020 OP
That's assuming they're looking for a justification for backtracking... regnaD kciN Apr 2020 #1

regnaD kciN

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1. That's assuming they're looking for a justification for backtracking...
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 06:31 PM
Apr 2020

...but I'm thinking that these people are so dogmatically committed to "free-market capitalism" (and hence opposed to anything that might suggest it a good idea to have government help people, even if its a matter of life and death), that they'll simply turn a blind eye to any resurgence of the disease in their states, and describe it as "acceptable losses" in the name of keeping the economy alive.

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