LogFAQs > #941931226

Man, we really destroyed or at least seriously wounded our society without even knowing it. This shambolic Covid response has created so many bombs that are all going to go off at once and we're not even responding to the problems we have now, much less the ones that are being created as we speak.

State and local governments are going to be starved of taxes and will have huge deficits and will cut necessary social services right in the middle of an economic and health crisis, unless they're bailed out. Schools need to reopen, but will be indoor virus factories. If schools don't reopen, parents will collapse of exhaustion, taking the economy down with them, and children will basically miss an entire year of education, socialization, regular meals, and structure, if not more. Rent freezes are going to expire, and we didn't just do the only humane and rational thing and cancel rent and mortgages completely, so huge swaths of the population will have months of back rent due all at once, all in the midst of an economic crisis. So we cancel rent because we don't expect people can pay one month of rent, but expect them to pay several months all at once when nothing has changed? The unemployment enhancement will also run out soon which will further inflame the problems with our economy, people keeping a roof over their heads, and people's willingness to follow any future orders that keep them from working.

We really really really fucked up as a society by making the people in charge now our leaders. They've led us right into the ditch. And we can see that this is a direct result of leadership and policy because we see that this massive increase and these potential social problems aren't happening in the US, in Canada, in East Asia, it's basically only happening here and in Brazil.

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