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Throughout the Democratic National Convention there was a common, if contradictory, theme: on one hand, the Democrats bashed Trump for his response to the covid pandemic while at the same time they lamented the dismal state of the economy, where millions have lost their jobs and countless corporations have gone bankrupt. Well, which one is it, because you can’t have both: if Trump had enacted a more forceful response to the pandemic, the US economy would have been shut down for longer (as\u00a0Neel Kashkari now urges,<\/a>\u00a0seeking another 6 weeks of shutdowns and setting the stage for the next crisis); alternatively the economy would be firing on all cylinders but the fallout from covid would be much more widespread.<\/p>\n On Friday afternoon, in an exclusive\u00a0interview with ABC\u00a0<\/a>“World News Tonight”, Biden revealed on which side of the fence he is saying that as president,\u00a0he would shut the country down to stop the spread of COVID-19 if the move was recommended to him by scientists.<\/strong><\/p>\n “I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,”\u00a0<\/strong>Biden told Muir Friday, alongside his running mate,\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a>, during their first joint interview since officially becoming the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential and vice presidential nominees.<\/p>\n