@Right_in_Virginia
Early times. Too soon to tell yet.
The one thing we know for certain is that by grabbing a disease and making it political,the Dims went from "Not a chance in hell!" of winning the WH and controlling both houses,to "Maybe they will pull it off".
Depends on how much "territory" the Dims can get from claiming the RNC and the President are "against helping the American People in their time of need and disease. If this thing gets out of control and/or somehow the RNC manages to override Trump and cut off all the aid packages,the Dims have a solid shot.
On the other hand,if the Republicans cut their losses by playing along with the aid packages,the Dims are disarmed and they have nothing to run on and everything to run FROM.
All true,
until there is an effective medical treatment for the disease. While we may have that, and while those drugs are approved for other uses, clearing the jungle of red tape from the path we need to follow getting that treatment in use where it will do some good is the greatest challenge.
While approving the widespread use of a new use for existing pharmacology is not to be taken lightly, few who perceive they are on their death beds will reject the idea.
When that happens (and I believe it may have already), the rug is pulled out from under this event, and America can do what it needs to: get back to work and restore commerce; recover economically.
IF the GOP wants to have the White House, the House, and the Senate, it needs to LOUDLY make this the priority, enough so that even the biased MSM cannot cloud or obscure that.
What is killing the economy is the 1-2 punch of fear of a potentially lethal disease, coupled with all those people who "Are from the government and here to help us".
People who have skin in the game, from small business owners to those who depend on economically brachiating on those paychecks they earn there, are only going to go under a little more slowly in relief efforts.
Typically, government fiscal relief is as timely as a fire department that arrives at the scene of the burning house a week after the call for help. Address the problem at its root, swiftly, definitively, and go on from there.
Or differently put, if you knew that there was medication which, for under $100 could cure you of this bug, would you forego working for weeks to avoid the disease?