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Re:UK government to pay up to 80% of wages for employees not... by mattkrause on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:58PM (#22640464)
It's not just consumption.

You (or I) would need to save for worst-case scenarios and get very few economies of scale: you can't have 0.001 of an epidemiologist on retainer.

The government can at least pool risk (and everything) over the entire country.

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