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Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social |
One of the things I think we've all collectively just absolutely fundamentally failed to understand is just how fucking nutso expensive the pandemic was that first year. Like, if you have a thing that cuts the pandemic shorter by *an hour* that thing is worth literally more than a billion dollars
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Orbital Fail-Son Canon
@nedgilmore.bsky.social
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Yeah. (To say nothing of the fairly significant number of people who *didn't* love the excuse to stay home and not go out with their friends and folks for weeks and weeks on end.)
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Ashton
@ashtonk.bsky.social
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I used to read a financial blog called Mr money mustache, and at one point someone asked what would happen if everyone spent as little as he did. Well, in 2020 we found out. And the economy just *stops* in hours. It’s really bad, turns out!
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Greg Lastname
@orpach.bsky.social
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Aww come one, those are tax dollars not economy dollars. It'd need to be at least four or five hours.
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John Harrold
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I think in April (or perhaps it was May) the Fed just dumped like 2 Trillion into the market. In one day.
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Eli L-F
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I will never understand why it wasn't even FLOATED as an idea to say, "Pfizer and Moderna, you each get to walk into the treasury and come out with whatever you can carry, but you need to release the vax IP and get every factory in the world making shots."
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