You're entirely correct, but remember that Dougie is owned by a consortium of real estate developers, and those developers need things to go back to the status quo ante pestis. (Leaving out Dougie's own anti-vax convictions.)
Post-pestis commercial property is in a massive glut (and all requires extensive and expensive refitting), malls are (probably) permanently unprofitable, "walking distance" for residential now means something completely different, commercial models based on JIT supply chains are still sliding with glacial slowness and inevitability toward a cliff -- more like calving into the sea, disconnected, adrift, and melting -- and the cousins are wobbling toward general strike conditions that will for-the-foreseeable alter labour prices upward. Their only real option is to try to get their creature back into power; if they face facts, they haven't got and cannot create a viable business model.
It's an extremely cynical bet even without an awareness that "delta", a specific genetic marker, is now a proliferating clade of viruses, or that the expected result of functional vaccines is more virulent diseases.
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Date: 2021-10-27 02:26 am (UTC)You're entirely correct, but remember that Dougie is owned by a consortium of real estate developers, and those developers need things to go back to the status quo ante pestis. (Leaving out Dougie's own anti-vax convictions.)
Post-pestis commercial property is in a massive glut (and all requires extensive and expensive refitting), malls are (probably) permanently unprofitable, "walking distance" for residential now means something completely different, commercial models based on JIT supply chains are still sliding with glacial slowness and inevitability toward a cliff -- more like calving into the sea, disconnected, adrift, and melting -- and the cousins are wobbling toward general strike conditions that will for-the-foreseeable alter labour prices upward. Their only real option is to try to get their creature back into power; if they face facts, they haven't got and cannot create a viable business model.
It's an extremely cynical bet even without an awareness that "delta", a specific genetic marker, is now a proliferating clade of viruses, or that the expected result of functional vaccines is more virulent diseases.