Originally Posted by
Jovan Dragisic
We already did the tragedy bit in 1939. It would have been a double tragedy without the virus in a few years, with the hyperinflation all over the West and China and Russia left holding all the remaining cash. Now everybody is broke at the same point, so at least there's nothing to wage a world war over.
OTOH... Dude, there's actual libertarians published on mises.org sending open letters to the UK government demanding a GOVERNMENT MANDATED RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD, you got the whole pro-business-globalist-all-we-need-is-tax-breaks crowd begging for higher handouts and export manipulation schemes, social democrats demanding cuts in taxes while Christian democrats are pumping live cash to individuals...