That’s the thing. All of these relief measures were intended to buy time so that we could get things under control. Instead the GOP, which views all forms of relief as handouts, didn’t use the opportunity to prepare the country for the fall, and we will all needlessly suffer.

— Katies (@your_mominlaw) July 27, 2020

The Repubs were like my dad when he found out that the meds the pet hospital gave us for our cat were not like a course of antibiotics that you used up and then were considered “cured,” but something that we’d have to give him for the rest of his nine lives.

They passed the CARES Act in the belief that this would all be “over” by August, that the (temporary) dip in new infections signaled that the outbreak was like the seasonal flu, and so passed a bill with the expectation that they’d get all sorts of accolades in the fall for having seen the country through the “emergency.” And then drug their feet the following two months because the WH cooked the books to fool people into believing that the economy was “recovering.”