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The Bob Cesca Podcast: Put Dat Cookie Down

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Targetpractice3/23/2020 1:02:26 pm PDT

re: #256 Dr Lizardo

As I was doing the dishes before calling it a night, it occurred to me that Trump’s notion of letting the virus burn through in order to save the economy from the effects of prolonged social distancing means that (based on what we’ve already observed from other outbreaks) a good many older Americans would end up dead in such a scenario - IOW, the GOP base.

A Pyrrhic victory - you might even say, a bigly Pyrrhic victory.

Particularly since it’s totally based upon the idea that if people “go back to work” then the economy will not only recover, but it will “skyrocket” before November. As opposed to the reality, which is that it will sputter and stall out as millions get sick and end up either at home or in the ICU. Then we’ll get involuntary social-distancing as people stay the fuck away from public venues for fear of getting sick, turning what might have been a couple weeks/months of economic pain into a slow and lingering death spiral.