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PANDEMIC!
cops and Jews, according to intelligence gathered by the
FBI). A more refined capitalist version of such relapse
into barbarism is already being openly debated in the
US. Writing in capital letters in a tweet late on Sunday ,
March 22nd, the US president said: “WE CANNOT LET
THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF.
AT THE END OF THE 15-DAY PERIOD WE WILL MAKE
A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO.”
Vice-President Mike Pence, who heads the White House
coronavirus taskforce, said earlier on the same day that
the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) would issue guidance on the following Monday
designed to allow people already exposed to the coronavirus
to return to work sooner. And the Wall Street
Journal editorial board warned that “federal and state
officials need to start adjusting their anti-virus strategy
now to avoid an economic recession that will dwarf the
harm from 2008-2009.” Bret Stephens, a conservative
columnist at The New York Times, which Trump monitors
closely, wrote that treating the virus as a threat
comparable to the second world war “needs to be questioned
aggressively before we impose solutions possibly
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