New Fed study finds efforts to slow pandemic don't depress the economy

[Beartracks]

8. There are no good options, but people congregating back at work in the middle of a pandemic...

... is among the worst of them.

Trump and his Republican lackeys are all about short-term "show." If Republicans get people to go back to work before the election, then Trump takes credit for what is the appearance of saving the economy, etc. Then, when the virus resurges as many, many more people get sick from the premature return to work, he'll just ride it out with his usual flair for bullshit. And if it so happens that Trump LOSES the election, then the Republicans simply plan to place all the blame for the inevitable resurgence on his Democratic replacement.

It's a calculated political risk, but one that Republicans are willing to let millions of Americans die for.

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