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> If you have savings for a couple of years, you can take it easy for a while and then go look for a job and find one 6 months later. Was anything other than your ego bruised by the loss of the job? No, not really.

> Why doesn't this analogy translate to what's happening with covid?

Because, as a share of population, approximately no one in the workingn class that makes up the bull of the population has “savings for a couple of years”, and that's not just a transitory situation but a fact that capitalism structurally guarantees.



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