No:
Payroll tax cut 🙄
Airline bailout 😡
Casino bailout 🤮

Yes:
Mail everyone a check 👍
Halt evictions, utility dislocations 👏🏼
No interest (forgivable?) loans to small businesses 🤩

— Angie Schmitt 🚶‍♀️🚴‍♀️ 🚌 (@schmangee) March 17, 2020

I support this even though I’ve been making large stock market bets on what the government was going to bail out — and it was all of the above.

My financial interests don’t destroy or negate my ethics. But I have no trust that anyone will do the right thing, so I bought that way. We’ll see soon enough whether my ethics or my pragmatism was correct.

I’ve found the easiest way to convince fellow white people to take COVID-19 seriously is to tell them about what’s happening in Italy. Most white people identify with Italians. Stuff happening in Asia might as well be happening on a different planet as far as they’re concerned.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) March 15, 2020

I wish that weren’t true but it is. That so many of the Boomers — a group among the most likely to die — disbelieve that Covid-19 is real and dangerous just says so much about our times. None of it, of course, good.

Truly I am not sure what to make of it all. It seems that people are fantastically more moronic than I thought, and I previously believed that most people were about on the level of monkeys flinging poo at one another.

Bernie could have nailed Biden by pointing out bad trade deals didn’t just cost us good jobs but cost us the ability to make masks. But the left doesn’t notice production.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 16, 2020

The perils of being “educated” and only dealing with the world via the interface of words. Can’t grasp much of the workings of the material world that way.

It’s fine 👀👀👀 https://t.co/Zi0adLMCPu

— Danni Long (@DanniLong4) March 17, 2020

I thought this crisis was going to be pretty bad. Now it appears that it’ll be even worse than I thought.

At least we’re unlikely (as a society) to run out of food, though quite a few people probably won’t be able to afford it soon.