I was discussing the protests to open the company with cow-orkers today, and one very young engineer dismissed the protesters as "easily manipulated people of low intellect."

Nice, calling people who are losing everything "low intellect" because they want to save their way of life.

 That's right out of the progressive playbook, and Alinsky.

5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Buy oil futures not chicken futures. 

The market is telling us that demand for oil will continue to be way down which means a lot of experts have no faith in the Economy, or a revival of the economy anytime soon.

Exactly.

 The progressives want everything destroyed since 2017.  The very thought of a non politician coming into office and accomplishing what they said couldn't be done is obscene to them.   They were on their way to the "fundamental transformation" they had dreamed about for years, and an outsider ruined it, and showed the American people there was a better way, and a he showed them how bad the establishment had screwed it up.

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Virtual-Tour/Cockpit360/

Crash the economy
Create huge unemployment
Still promote Open Borders (Amnesty, free healthcare, free college, Universal Basic Income for Illegal Aliens)
BLAME TRUMP
Install Biden and whichever Black, Woman he chooses
Get enough Republican RINOS to pass the Green New Deal (all social programs, income redistribution and horrendous regulations)

Done and Done.

 Just imagine what the borders would look like if we opened them, then started "universal income" for everyone.

The death rate is going to end up not much more than regular flu if that, but the damage is done. The government has learned that it can bind and hobble us, while we submissively oblige, as our jobs are taken, our life savings decimated, and our supply chains disrupted, as we cower in fear over a disease with a 99.5% survival rate. Fucking unbelievable.

They will use this from now on.

 Yep, a new chapter has been added, and will be used with a vengeance.

Let's say we pay that to 150M people, that's $300B a month or $3.6T a year.

Just tax the rich more.  And tax Wall St.

That's what they want, they don't care one bit about the business owners.

Under socialism privately owned businesses aren’t allowed.  So yes, these progressive leftist don’t care about all of the businesses they destroy.  This is partially behind why the dims won’t approve additional money for the SBA loans. 

Did anyone notice the latest dim proposal on unemployment?  A $2000/month entitlement that would last until several conditions were met. One condition would be unemployment would have to go back to January/February levels. 

Now stop and think about that for a minute.  They (government) control those numbers, and we know dims never cheat.  I can promise you, if the republicans were to cave on this, we would never see those numbers ever again, and there we would have “universal income”..