Subject: Elizabeth Warren laid out 8 conditions for corporate bailou

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Elizabeth Warren laid out 8 conditions for corporate bailouts which stop short of nationalizing them, but would change how they operate dramatically:

• Companies must maintain payrolls and use federal funds to keep people working.
• Businesses must provide $15 an hour minimum wage quickly but no later than a year from the end
• Companies would be permanently banned from engaging in stock buybacks.
• Companies would be barred from paying out dividends or executive bonuses while they receive federal funds and the ban would be in place for three years.
• Businesses would have to provide at least one seat to workers on their board of directors, though it could be more depending on size of the rescue package.
• Collective bargaining agreements must remain in place.
• Corporate boards must get shareholder approval for all political spending.
• CEOs must certify their companies are complying with the rules and face criminal penalties for violating them.

I agree with most of that.

Also, there are actual cures now:

Japanese flu drug 'clearly effective' in treating coronavirus, says China https://theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china Hydroxycloroquin too: https://archyde.com/hydroxychloroquine-the-drug-that-could-stop-covid-19/ Why are we waiting for Big Pharma to give us a vaccine?

If the orange man in the White House is not totally captured by Big Pharma, he ought to leap on this and start treating people as they are already being treated in France and China and elsewhere.

We should not plod through double-blind studies either, but give these well-known drugs to the most critical patients unless they are contraindicated by well known reasons. There is no way the placebo effect makes any significant difference in whether people are cured of the corona virus or not. We need to begin treatment immediately.