That's why I said hindsight is 20/20 and that this situation is unprecedented and that we've learned a lot in case something like this ever happens again.
In theory, we could learn a lot. Just like in 1918, where up to 100 million people may have died, we should have learned a lot too.
The lessons from this are going to mean some serious revamping of our entire system. It will mean more stockpiling of equipment, which costs money. It will mean less reliance on the ogre to the south of us, which means more money from gov’t to private industry to make that happen. And probably an increase in costs to consumers. To avoid the stupidity of suddenly having to hand out cheques to millions of people, it will probably mean a Universal Basic Income. If we had that, in a case like this, gov’t would just increase the size of the cheque, instead of having to reinvent the wheel.
I think what it will take is taxing those who have more. Taxing them a lot more. They’ve been having it pretty easy in this country with the race to the bottom.
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