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Friday, May 15, 2020

Social Distancing Guidelines Will Now Be Tied to the Dow Jones Average


Satirical News Service
Washington DC

In an effort to focus attention on “What a great job he’s doing with the economy AND responding to re-opening up America”. Trump has proposed tying the amount of social distancing required  to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This would be an inverse proportion so that the higher the DJ average goes, the LESS you would need to social distance.  If it should drop, however, the distance you would have to social distance would increase. That way people can start to feel secure about going into public places and interacting with their neighbors knowing that as the economy improves, the less distance they have to maintain between themselves.

Businesses are quite perplexed by this since they have already invested significant time and effort placing taped markers on the floors to indicate spacing between people, and have re-arranged seating in public places accordance with current DCD guidelines. “With the target constantly shifting, it’s going to be very confusing to people as to how much distance to allow between them. They’ll have to be constantly looking at the stock tickers to know whether to increase it or decrease it”, said one business owner.

Republicans are overwhelming in support of this, even though it makes zero sense scientifically. It re-focuses America’s attention on getting our economy, as measured by the Dow Jones, up again, and rewarding all Americans when it does well.

The CDC declines to comment on this.

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