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While coronavirus has claimed lives, it has also reduced particulate matter—the deadliest form of air pollution—likely saved the lives of 4,000 kids and 73,000 elderly adults in China over 2 months, per an analysis by Marshall Burke, at Stanford’s Earth-system science department. https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248592233043017729
2. Should we be viewing this coronavirus pandemic as a sign from the planet (or by the creators of this simulation/experiment) to consider how many millions of lives we can save by scaling back pollution from non-essential businesses and curbing unnecessary air + ground travel? https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248593320043036673
3. Economic stimulus responses to this pandemic prove that governments can “magically print money”, so why can’t they continue to do that without generating more pollution, causing needless deaths by requiring people to go to work to schlep avocado toasts, fast food and fashion? https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248595135052615680
4. This pandemic proves that if governments simply paid more people to stay at home or work from home, we can operate without so many non-essential businesses while reducing death toll from vehicle accidents, pollution, crime which in turn dramatically reduces healthcare costs! https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248596084626272258
5. In the 1990s, US transitioned into a service-oriented economy; many factory jobs (that came with health benefits) became non-essential minimum wage retail jobs (fast food, fast fashion etc) that offered little or no healthcare benefits. This is a historic chance to fix that. https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248596817153007616
6. 20 million Americans are or will be jobless soon because they are in the non-essential segments of the economy “hurt but his pandemic”. 50 million are underinsured/uninsured, meaning, they are struggling to juggle finances during an unprecedented health crisis. Let’s be smart.
7. If governments can magically print 
to prop up non-essential parts of the economy that generates pollution, causes millions of needless deaths, can they magically printto transition this non-essential economy into something more beneficial for the planet, for society? Yes!
to prop up non-essential parts of the economy that generates pollution, causes millions of needless deaths, can they magically printto transition this non-essential economy into something more beneficial for the planet, for society? Yes!
8. Of course, this means having a clear and unified vision—and our politicians have proven time and again that their petty bickering ends up putting the public behind the eight ball 
So this will have to be a grassroots movement that ultimately replaces those politicians too. https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248601092562325504
So this will have to be a grassroots movement that ultimately replaces those politicians too. https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248601092562325504
9. Shutting down non-essential businesses for 10 weeks has had the same environmental impact as the Green New Deal would’ve had over 10 years. Can we mobilize the millions of idle Americans to come up with a better, less environmentally damaging “economy that works for all”? https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248602246184566785
10. This “non-essential” sector of the economy is not sustainable in more ways beyond the environmental 
aspect: Millions of people who flooded to cities to work in this sector are now struggling to pay rent—and we haven’t even had a full month of scaling back such businesses! https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1248364072514412544
aspect: Millions of people who flooded to cities to work in this sector are now struggling to pay rent—and we haven’t even had a full month of scaling back such businesses! https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1248364072514412544
11. In every recession, the hardest hit are the expendables—workers on the bottom rung in the “non-essential” business sector—low-income/low education people (in retail etc)—so why do lawmakers keep propping up/incentivizing the wealthy who benefit from this legacy apparatus? https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248608823528419337
12. As of March 2020, pre-“shutdown” of “non-essential” businesses, the average US CEO made 300X more in compensation than the average “expendable”—unlike whom, many CEOs won’t be struggling to pay rent for many years or have to worry about losing their healthcare coverage. https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248617867173433351
