I know it’s a downer, but, OH BOY, I do not like being lied to at all, even if the liar thinks the lie is good for me.
They must think we aren’t capable of researching this for even 5 minutes. Maybe they aren’t capable of researching it for 5 minutes.
They are stuck between a rock and a hard place. A huge debt load that must be serviced and a biowarfare weapon on the loose. Now if our government was not corrupt and not in debt, we could have been sitting on a few trillion in surplus. Thus, pay everyone to take a sabbatical, while our business models and facilities get updated. Or even use the surplus to pay every debt possible.