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Re:The high price of mistrust by foolinaround on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:40PM (#25909943)
and to add to this point, the folks advocating for usage of masks for all were not advocating to compensate the loss of income for the lockdowns.

this immediately created 2 classes -- folks who will get their salaries from their professions inspite of the lockdowns and those who won't and would be left to suffer

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Re:The high price of mistrust by Proziam on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:53PM (#25910063)
Related to this, one of my major concerns for 2021 and beyond is how much money we're [0]printing and the effect that will have on people's purchasing power. Couple that with the fact that a huge portion of small businesses in the US are [1]closed forever, many with severe financial repercussions for the owners (who are totally average people, not the upper class many think of when 'business owner' gets used as a term).

In short, I think we're going to be in for massive long-term unemployment (and underemployment) coupled with inflation beyond what anyone living today in the US has experienced. I'm not too confident about the state of this nation's finances

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/yelp-data-shows-60percent-of...

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