>>12943183How does inflation hurt the poor? The people who live paycheck to paycheck and don't have the fiat to invest get hurt the most and the rich just hide it in securities (usually stocks or corporate bonds).
... not arguing that central banks had anything to do with the genesis of Covid, just that the monetary policy most of them enacted asymmetrically benefits the rich while making upward mobility less accessible to the working class. It's called a K-shaped recovery for a reason...
>>12942951Probably, but what does it matter? It was most likely an accident and pointing fingers accomplishes nothing but creating geopolitical destabilization in the midst of a pandemic.
Antigenic shift that gives rise to several gain of function mutations simultaneously? I'm not buying that story. Even the molecular evidence suggests it was from a lab (most of the RNA in SARS-CoV2 is from the legacy SARS virus which, even if it was hiding out in bats like the WHO says, would have had more mutations in noncoding segments).
It sounds crazy and I avoid putting my opinion out there in public, but yeah... all the evidence suggests it's from a lab.
