[DouglasKC]

Tone-deaf much? People are rightfully concerned about families who can't "telework" or otherwise sit on their ass and collect a check. They are not some national economic abstractions. They are real-life human beings who are being destroyed by this shutdown.

As opposed to choking to death on their own phlegm?

[hcmama]

What, no “you just want Grannie to die for your 401K” hysterics?

[Robert DeLong]

Sorry, but they do not choke to death on their phlegm. They die because they are deprived air due to fluid that is filling their lungs, going into what is called ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), and finally succumbing to pneumonia.

[Go_Raiders]

I think you meant to say

“As opposed to about 0.15% of them maybe choking to death...”