Posted on 03/25/2020 4:28:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The clamor for a swift return to normal has started to pick up in recent days - particularly in the right-wing media ecosystem.
That's come as President Donald Trump has suggested that he could quickly move to change his administration's guidelines in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak in hope of returning some people to work in less than three weeks and ending the stock market slide.
No example drew more attention than an interview that Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, gave Monday night on Fox News, in which he suggested that some elderly Americans - the group most at risk of death from COVID-19 - should be willing to sacrifice their lives so the economy can gain steam.
"No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for its children and grandchildren?' And if that is the exchange, I'm all in," said Patrick, 70.
Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of Trump's closest congressional allies, tweeted Monday: "Try running an economy with major hospitals overflowing, doctors and nurses forced to stop treating some because they can't help all, and every moment of gut-wrenching medical chaos being played out in our living rooms, on TV, on social media, and shown all around the world."
"There is no functioning economy unless we control the virus," he added.
For his part, Cuomo did suggest that a strategy in which some elements of the shutdown are loosened - with less vulnerable people returning to work - may be possible in the coming weeks if both the public health and economic approaches are "done intelligently."
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“Experts” yea okay...
Democrats worry if Trump turns the economy around, bye bye Biden.
Can’t be allowed to happen.
Is my liberty expendable? How about my nation’s economy and future?
Are these the same "experts" who said we'd have a million deaths by now, virus-flooded hospitals across the country?
That’s funny. Neither is mine. And yet she’s one of the people in my circle of family and friends who is making the strongest effort to live her life as if nothing is wrong ... even to the point of violating all kinds of government “emergency orders” that she doesn’t even know were issued in the first place. LOL.
We were told we were all gonna die in 10 years. Oops!
Upward of 50,000 die every year in traffic accidents. Every day we hop into our cars we know there is risk involved.
Keep the older folk staying safe at home, and those with compromised health, and let the rest go back to work.
——Are these the same “experts” who said we’d have a million deaths by now, virus-flooded hospitals across the country?——
The very same.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back against Patrick’s sentiment, saying, “My mother is not expendable.
“And your mother is not expendable,” he continued. “And our brothers and sisters are not expendable. We’re not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable. We’re not going to put a dollar figure on human life.”
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This from the governor who supports not only full term abortions, but killing chidden born alive after a botched abortion.
What would be left to tax? Certainly no businesses or corporations much less working people. Welcome to the beginning of left wing push back.
No one wants to see a family relative as "expendable". But perhaps we should take a slightly wider and less self-centered viewpoint.
Not to worry. Uncle Sam will provide you with a Guaranteed Basic Income.
Stay home and get paid.
How queer that this talking point got picked up by all the different media outlets
3000 family members are aborted every day and they don’t care they want more dead
My Mom’s assisted living facility is likely to stay locked down for a time beyond the opening of business.
Paying 20 million unemployed Americans $500 each for 10 weeks costs $100 billion, not $2.3 trillion.
Me thinks they protest too much.
In my conspiritorial mind, the pieces are starting to come together: the virus was created and spread, they shut down the world econonmy and now they don’t want daily life to get back to normal. At the same time, the Senate and House democrats drug their feet in getting a stimulus bill together that would provide help to almost everyone. Something smells fishy to me.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Anyone who supports killing the unborn holds no moral ground on this issue. Democrats need to be reminded of this at every turn.
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