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> Incentivizing people to stay home was a bug, not a feature.

> There is absolutely nothing that suggests the federal government is interested in doing this on purpose

These are two separate statements, that do not necessarily correlate.

That the government may not have intended the benefit to incentivize people to stay home (thus improving public health) does not mean that people staying home and improving public health is not a feature for the vast majority of people.



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