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Thomas Hurt

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3. Roll the dice with tens of thousands of lives for profit.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2020, 06:54 PM

Apr 2020

Play the bet that had they done nothing the economy would have closed down not because the gov't ordered but because of the hundreds of thousands dead.

No one to work the jobs because too many are dead.

Of course it is much safer to say we should have placed that bet now.

Unfortunately this is not over and may come back.

Short sighted stupidity.

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