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The Dig: Biden's Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman

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How to Stop a Coronovirus Pandemic Without Shutting Down the Economy?

The 20 20 election byden declared, quote, i'm not going to shut down the economy. I'm going to shutdown the virus. To do that, you need to massively expand the welfare state. We have this policy back in 20 20, the cars act, and also another another act called the family's first cronoviris response act. And there has been a lot of research showing that these kinds of interventions work quite well. But we are no longer at a point where thereis widespread immunity from infection because the omicron variant is good at escaping immunity.

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