This is the End
We tried to fight the pandemic to a draw so we could save the economy.
We failed.
At both.
Neither of these is the scariest part.
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A vaccine will be released before the election.
It will be brought to us by the same people who were wrong about travel bans and not masks preventing the spread of the virus, who were wrong about not needing FDA approval for testing kits for the virus, and who were wrong about hydroxychloroquine being a treatment for the virus.
We all know they'll be wrong about this vaccine too, and we all know tens of millions will take it anyway out of loyalty or desperation, and we all know tens of millions more will point to the inevitable failure as reason to not take the genuine vaccine when it is eventually released, fatally undermining herd immunity.
This isn't the scariest part either.
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The scariest part is that our only hope is the United States Congress.
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But it's not as bleak as that phrase may have seemed at any other point in any of our adult lives, because we know they've already managed to come together and unanimously(!!!) approve bailout checks to many businesses and each and every one of us. All we need is for them to do that again, and more, and indefinitely.
"Inflation!" Here's the thing - we've already seen $3,000,000,000,000 in stimulus and CPI is deflating. We need immediate further injections just to get to a healthy amount of inflation, worrying about hyperinflation now is like worrying about cholesterol during a famine.
"Debt!" Here's the thing - money isn't real. Germany saw -2% GDP in the first quarter compared to our -5%, and is projected to see -10% GDP in the second quarter compared to our -35%. None of these are good numbers, but I know which ones I'd pick.
In addition to crushing us economically, Germany is crushing us medically:
They have done and are continuing to do better on both. We can too, and we can do it by doing what they did: $$$ (technically they did €€€ but you get the idea).
"Socialism!??" Here's the thing - I said it was the end, didn't I?
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We get to choose, right now, today.
Not next week, next week is too late.
Not tomorrow, tomorrow is too late.
It's already too late today.
We are in the no-win scenario.
Our only choice is how much we want to lose.
Is this the end of capitalism, or the end of America?
Look at the first picture again. There are no blue states anymore. The red states represented by Republicans are already coming around, slowly, from the governor of Texas to the senior Senator from Kentucky. All they need is a little more push and we can survive.
Hasta pronto, porque la vida no termina aqui...
America, stop pushing. I know what I'm doing.