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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]100% yes. But EVERYONE would have to comply and those who didn't would need to face stiff penalties.[b] Suspend mortgage/rent payments for the duration and extend generous unemployment to people with incomes under a certain amount who cannot not WFH[/b]. No travel unless it's for essential business (i.e. you work for Doctors Without Borders, not a shareholder's meeting in Vegas). If you are out in public for any reason, you must wear a mask. Period.[/quote]

The bold is particularly right and important.

The administration and McConnell will not do this so states should step up. Not all will (hello, GA and FLA and AZ) so I'd want to see coalitions of states that would work togehther well beyond what they're doing now to enforce a true lockdown and get unemployment help and rent/mortgage suspension out there. VA/MD/DC; NY/CT/NJ are two examples already primed to have even closer coalitions if they were willing.

It will be a hardship for those of us who are doing OK economically but I would absolutely take a bigger tax hit to support things like state universal basic income for a time, or a state payroll protection program, or a state rent relief program. Because the administration and Senate won't do s%i$.[/quote]

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