(04-13-2020, 05:09 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: That was when they were playing to the reactionary hicks for votes. Now their corporate financiers are in trouble, so the plebs are getting told to suck it up and bend over that workbench.
Well, remember, at the level of those financiers, it's all just replaceable nameless cogs. Anyone in employ dies, it's easy enough to hire a replacement - even easier now with so many people having had their employers actually shutter in response. Plus, I'm sure some of them figure they can always pay extra money to get someone else yanked off a ventilator if they happen to actually get that sick, although they're also thinking that it would be good to shed some of the expensive to maintain "dead" weight (read: those with health problems that increase the costs of the company health insurance and hence reduce the profits).
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor