If the government does its victory lap and starts slashing all of these benefits within weeks and then eliminates them in just the next few months, and we see that 70% devastation across the country, I can just imagine what the impacts would be in my community.
How devastating is it and for how long? What I'm trying to get at is, to rebuild the infrastructure that we have now that would be lost by poor government policy and cutting off supports prematurely—for reasons that don't jibe with me, certainly, because the government is refusing to ask the companies and the individuals who earn the most during this pandemic to actually pay their fair share.... The resources are there.
If the government decides that they're just going to basically close the books on COVID-19 and not provide those supports, how long would it take to rebuild the infrastructure that we have in place now? What would it cost for our country and for regions to have to rebuild the infrastructure that the government has allowed basically to be crushed?