@thewebrecluse

Four things!

We also learned in early days that our governments *did* have ways to rapidly reallocate funding, if they wanted to. And reallocate they did... by bailing out major corporations, while hemming and hawing over individual aid for months.

But all those political claims we'd listened to for years, about how tough it was to find the means to invest in better civic safety nets? Pure baloney--and we all knew it soon after lockdown began & private industry got its piece.