r/Economics • u/leftisturbanist17 • 19d ago

Remember When September Was Going to Be the Return to Normal in the U.S.? The delta variant is jeopardizing the economy’s long-awaited fall comeback. News

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-26/return-to-normal-in-september-2021-looks-unlikely-thanks-to-covid-delta-variant
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u/dust4ngel 19d ago

The delta variant of the coronavirus is ripping across a country with far lower vaccination rates than Congress had been modeling when it wrote the latest relief bill.

this is touching indirectly, or perhaps diplomatically, on the economic impacts of an unabated disinformation industry. you can successfully execute economic planning and public intervention around a pandemic, provided you have a public that is engaged with reality and is interested in a return to safe, organized trade - but it's not clear that those were reasonable assumptions last year.

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u/theerrantpanda99 18d ago

I wish there was a study on how much societal damage the 24 hour cable news industry has done to the United States.

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