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Originally Posted by Blingy
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How do you propose they get food? put gas in their car? pay other basic necessities?
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Well, in other wealthy countries they passed generous safety nets to both businesses and individuals to keep people on payroll until they got covid more or less under control and people felt comfortable participating in the economy again without killing grandma.
In the United States, we used barebone, short-lived levels of conditional aid as coercion to try to force people back into the workforce while the infection raged out of control in the leadership vacuum and grassroots science denial. Also the loans intended to prop up employment were further depleted by Republican-condoned theft when the Trump administration removed oversight of how the money was being dispensed.
So yea, I don't have a solution for the millions of Americans who sell their labor to survive because the US had so many chances to minimize Covid's impact and we squandered all of them.