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Re:CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf] by aaomidi on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:43PM (#24573061)
This does nothing but restrict landlords from kicking people out of their homes.

Good. Do you know how many more people died in the 1918 flu pandemic and the Irish famine due to not having housing?

All that death could've been avoided.

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Re:CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf] by heavyset_go on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:49PM (#24573137)
> the Irish famine due to not having housing?

An often overlooked, but important, aspect of the Irish famine is how landlords and the ever increasing subdivisions of their property[1] brought about the conditions for the famine, and how evictions afterward[2] hastened the deaths of already starving people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Tenants...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Evictio...

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Re:CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf] by aaomidi on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:52PM (#24573173)
Yep. This is why history is important to learn.

People arguing this is authoritarianism clearly don't have to worry about going homeless during all of this.

There is a reason Vietnam is doing so much better than the US while being far more dense...

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