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by erobbins 2290 days ago
Honestly I'd like to see a 1 month quarantine, with the US government guaranteeing the wages of everyone in the workforce for that time. Something like 100% up to 50k/year, 75% of 50-100k, and cap it there. It would cost a few hundred billion dollars but it would keep the "I have to work or be homeless" people from being homeless and allow them to actually stay home for that time.
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Just $10k for every full time employee in the US is over 1.3 trillion dollars, so your numbers are pretty far off.
1 month salary for every full time employee is not anywhere near that. Especially capped at 1/12 of 100k/year
And then the virus spreads one month later.