We’re all in it together!
That was the shaming slogan shouted from every celebrity, the media, compliant multi-national corporations and most politicians as they shuttered dissent over draconian economic lockdown rules enacted to flatten the curve of the China-originated and manufactured coronavirus.
The message was clear, we are all suffering so anyone who complains just needs to suck it up and take the medicine the federal and state governments were prescribing like good little boys and girls.
But were we really “all in it together?” United States Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that we weren’t.