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The coming social disaster in the US is the next wave of this crisis. It will be the ultimate indictment of our form of conscienceless capitalism. Confronted by the worst unemployment crisis in history amid a great health crisis, a vast cross-section of us will suffer grievously.
What will happen if, as projected, 47 million of us are unemployed? What happens in a country in which 40% of the people have less than $400 in savings and the social safety nets are so grossly inadequate? What happens to the 140 million Americans who are poor or low-income?
What happens when tens of millions lose their health care because they lost their jobs? What happens when the government rescue packages created to date offer crumbs to workers and the displaced and the poor and the needy and save the big bucks for corporations and Wall St?
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The president is making a desperate case to show he acted quickly. He is describing a list of measures clearly inadequate to the crisis we faced. And, worth noting, we STILL do not have a fraction of the testing we require. STILL do not have the hospital support we require.
We STILL do not have the support for workers dislocated by the disease we require. We STILL do not have the data require to manage the outbreak. We STILL do not have the health care coverage for victims who can't afford it.
The president STILL has not retracted his support for unproven and dangerous drugs in response to the disease. His "closing" of the country did not close the country to the Chinese (40K entered after) & ignored the threat from elsewhere in the world (most NY cases came from EU).
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If we are headed toward 40-50 million unemployed, tens of millions of whom will lose their health insurance, most of whom have few or no savings, we are about to have a social crisis the likes of which none of us have ever seen. Without a rent holiday, we will need tent cities.
Without massive debt forgiveness, we shall see a generation crushed beneath a burden accumulated in this year alone. Without a change in our health care system, we will see many die needlessly--either from this disease or want of health care.
This catastrophe is just starting. By summer, it could make the Great Depression (when the unemployment rate was much lower) look modest by comparison. This is not about "opening up" our economy, we can't safely do that. This is about coming to grips with our broken social con
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