Economic devastation looms on a Good Friday like no other

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8. Don't overlook things that are backgrounded.

"Companies, continue to pay your employees. We'll reimburse you."

It's not like you local business with 10 employees has the cash sitting around to pay all their workers for 3 months.

It's often not what you know that matters, it's the things you don't know and that you're unaware of knowing that matter. It's had to base opinions on things you don't even know you could know.

The best you can do is always question if what you know is accurate and correct--regardless of where it comes from--and think of alternative explanations. You need to look for cracks in knowledge and understanding, questions that your information doesn't cover, places where it seems to conflict with other things or go fuzzy and not quite make sense or fit. (And it really helps to keep track of kinds of knowledge--observation? report of observation? implication? inference? assumption--and if so, how likely?)