1/ Few want to say it out loud because it’s terrifying, but the fact is that we’re teetering on the verge of a Depression. Some would say we’ve entered one already. That’s why there are those who want people to go back to work no matter what.
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2/ Instead of suggesting that people die in order for us to avoid a Depression, we should do with others have done to bring us out of one. The government right now can start creating jobs that people could do from home. We need an at-home version of FDR’s WPA public works program

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3/ From scientists to computer techs to mechanics to architects to environmental experts to artists to engineers to inventors, there’s an endless number of jobs people could be doing from home right now that would add immeasurably to our new beginnings on the other side of this.
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4/ Today’s politicians extraordinarily entrenched within a system that simply does things the way it has always done them. The lack of imagination in DC is stunning, yet an unimaginable catastrophe demands we imagine new solutions. Oldthink is the problem; newthink is the Answer
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Or we could just implement Universal Basic Income and unleash every single person’s potential to become the best person they can to make our country the country we’re capable of being.
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That too.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Or we can use the Sweden model that IS working, no lock down, common sense social distancing. Sweden did not lock down and their economy and citizens didn't have to suffer economically. Even WHO commended the Sweden model, you Dems typically love WHO🤷‍♀️
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Their numbers of infection and death do not support your enthusiasm.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Why don't you list what some of those jobs might be? The country is all ears.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Not in California, where independent contractors are prevented from working thanks to AB5.
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They keep saying that we need more contact tracers
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Replying to @marwilliamson
#CongressPassUBI before anything else
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