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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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