Originally Posted by
Phins2right
It would have been better if they hadn't overreacted to begin with....you'll see soon enough.
This was totally self induced. Now ,not only is a huge segment of our total economy a wasteland, but people like you thank the .gov for salvation in Oliver Twist-ish fashion. We are truly on the road to serfdom.
Eric Hoffer was famous for the quote "what starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation."
The Covid response has elements of all three.
Lots of time, money, and energy is heavily invested in "big-COVID" right now, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. Despite literally trillions of dollars of damage done to the global economy, so many people are invested in "their" take on Covid, it's gone well beyond rational analysis and measured responses.