Canadian Politics Today

If you aren't spending your free gov money on rent, mortgage, groceries, car payments etc. you don't need it.

Maybe people are nervous this crisis is going to go on for longer and are conserving their resources.  And who's to say this isn't a free handout but actually compensation for the ****-up of the century?  I can certainly see why people who have to keep working would feel resentful and as such I think they should all be on a tax holiday and get raises to boot to help keep their morale and incentive up for the duration of this. OTOH I think anyone who has issues with people getting free stuff and who try to make political hay out of that and especially to pressure everyone to get out and risk their life for the sake of the economy quite frankly can go **** up a rope.

Many jurisdictions around the world will almost certainly be buttoning up again this fall, winter and next spring or until we either have a vaccine or an effective treatment against this virus. In addition to making as much as possible while the making is good we have a pretty short window of opportunity to make a lot of rapid preparations for the longer haul that's still ahead us.  If we don't have a better handle on the moral panic over spending/borrowing and we're jerked back and forth between being led to believe help will be there or it's going to be tough titty and everyone for themselves we'll probably have a much bigger crisis of fear and uncertainty on our hands.

This was not our fault but if turning to faulting how people deal with it becomes a political centerpiece of our response then what is an already agonizing shitshow will explode into total chaos and quite likely the depression of the millennium.