Bombs, Burnt Beef, and the Big $20 Burrito Battle

At some point, we will have to reckon with the fact that we shut down the world’s largest economy over the flu.  - Spencer Pratt

...You can never do that. 

• Not for global wars, 
• not for nuclear holocaust, 

you never ever shut down your economy. 

Despite what decades of communist propaganda may have you believe, concern over the economy isn’t just vanity, it’s not greed…the economy is the proxy for our collective lives. 

Shutting down the economy means 

• people die from missed cancer screenings, 
• business owners kill themselves because their legacy family restaurant shuts down for good, 
• people can’t afford basic human needs. 

We crippled the global economy and attempted to backfill the void by printing more money than had ever been printed in the history of human civilization and doled it out with alacrity...