Billionaire MAGA Fan Says, "Get Back to Work!"

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Money is not an antidote to stupidity.  Of course, Trump is living proof of this fact, but many of his right wing supporters seem equally oblivious to the way the real world works.  Liz Uihlein and her husband have been bankrolling MAGA trolls in Wisconsin and providing millions to right wing causes for years.  Her family company, Uline, remains open, but she wants everybody back to work right now.  After all some bad stuff happened when she was a kid and we got through it, so stop whining and get to work.  

In her interview with the Guardian, Liz Uihlein, who is 74, repeatedly compared the current crisis to polio outbreaks in the 1940s and 1950s – her own sister contracted the disease when they were children – and suggested Americans then had not “shut down” communities to deal with those outbreaks.“It was a terrifically scary thing.

 It hit children and this virus doesn’t hit children. So I’ve got a different view on it. And I don’t think you should live in fear,” she said.

But Elena Conis, a medical historian at the University of California, Berkeley, said comparisons between polio and the coronavirus were not apt in this case. Polio had been ravaging communities for decades before a vaccine was discovered in 1953 and large segments of the population had developed immunity to the virus. When outbreaks occurred, she said, communities did, in fact, shut down to isolate the disease. Those outbreaks also occurred at a time when populations were far less mobile than today.