I can buy it because I don’t think we’ve yet gotten anywhere close to a full accounting of the second order effects of the collective reaction to Covid-19: not just in terms of negative health impacts of the shutdowns, but also the long-term economic devastation.
At the same time as many governors were effectively shutting down hordes of small businesses for daring to stay open even while Amazon and other big firms were doing record-setting business, scammers rushed to claim many of the government loans meant to keep actual businesses afloat. I think many real businesses got completely hosed.
Don’t expect to hear an inkling about this forced transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street from self-described progressives who are currently focusing on enriching Big Pharma. They might start to focus on the economy again when it’s entirely too late.
> Don’t expect to hear an inkling about this forced transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street from self-described progressives who are currently focusing on enriching Big Pharma.
Progressives, including progressive Democrats in Congress, were arguing from day one for a much larger massive transfer from the rich to everyone else to compensate for expected costs of the pandemic including anticipated control measures.
I think you are confusing the neoliberal centrist Democrats who aligned against that with the Republicans that with “progressives.” All while ignoring the actual progressives, who have been talking about this since before it happened, and continue to talk about it, and also Pharma profiteering, contrary to your description; e.g., https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1467622911989145618?t=...
I agree that the wealth transfer is awful, but your take is so wrong. Sanders was talking about it explicitly and continues to do so, and many progressives think the impact on small business during the pandemic is awful.
But you seem to think that vaccine advocacy is a bad faith attempt at giving pharma money rather than a good faith attempt at pu lic health and economic recovery. I think is a ridiculous opinion.
Yep. All the people refusing the vaccine due to misinformation are not rich wallstreet folks, it’s the less educated of our society. Those are the people suffering and losing their family members because Covid is devastating their community.
As a self-described progressive, I mostly agree. I'm skeptical that any administration is equipped to handle widespread profiteering. It's beyond even regulatory capture. The megacorps just ignore the rules which bind everyone else. Then treat any fines and such as the cost of doing business.
On my todo list is reading about how the robber barrons were eventually, albeit partially, reigned in.
At the same time as many governors were effectively shutting down hordes of small businesses for daring to stay open even while Amazon and other big firms were doing record-setting business, scammers rushed to claim many of the government loans meant to keep actual businesses afloat. I think many real businesses got completely hosed.
Don’t expect to hear an inkling about this forced transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street from self-described progressives who are currently focusing on enriching Big Pharma. They might start to focus on the economy again when it’s entirely too late.