1/ It's astonishing to me that most of the media is covering the existential crisis we're currently facing like it's a regular partisan political issue. If we go down that path, a lot of people will die. Here is why.
2/ Remember how global warming was, for decades, a "debate?" Except the only climatologist promoting the idea that global warming wasn't real was actually funded by Exxon and somehow politicians ran with whatever he said?

This guy is about to be famous:
3/ The White House is apparently cooking up a new economic stimulus plan. What's the plan? "Fuck you" is the plan: Force everyone to go back to work and exempt employers from liability when people start getting sick. Also cut taxes again for billionaires: https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1246926478870224897
4/ There will be political cover, of course. All of a sudden we're going to hear that most of us have already been infected, it was asymptomatic, there's nothing to worry about, and we got it all wrong. Here's how that starts: https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1246966266851516416
5/ Journalists, you're up against folks who don't care how many people die and would kill their own mother if it made them more money. They want the economy moving again, and they want another tax cut. And you're bogged down in whatever Trump is trying to distract you with today.
6/ Ask the two correct questions:

"If we really have nothing to worry about, why do employers want exemption from liability?"

"What possible justification is there for giving billionaires yet another tax cut they don't need, while kicking Main Street in the teeth repeatedly?"
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