In coronavirus pandemic, Trump allies say they're ready to die for the economy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Conservative supporters of President Trump are increasingly volunteering to risk death — and implicitly the deaths of elderly and at-risk Americans — from the coronavirus if it will help the economy.

The push for Americans to get back to work in the face of an unprecedented economic downturn began last week but accelerated on Sunday evening, after the president began pushing the message that “we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.” On Tuesday, Trump said he “would love to have the country opened up by Easter,” which falls on April 12. Public health experts say it is impossible to predict now when it will be safe to end social distancing measures but are virtually unanimous in believing they will be needed beyond then.

On Monday evening, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick explained how the trade-off between saving lives and spurring the economy worked in his mind.

“I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me … that what we all care about and what we all love more than anything are those children,” said Patrick, who turns 70 next week, on Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News show. “My message is that: Let’s get back to work. Let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart about it, and those of us who are 70-plus, we’ll take care of ourselves, but don’t sacrifice the country. Don’t do that. Don’t ruin this great American dream.”

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Be my guest Patrick but the rest of us are not going to follow you like lemmings off a cliff.

[LisaL]

1. Who is stopping them?

[smirkymonkey]

2. Fine with me.

The more, the better.

[maryellen99]

3. People are going to die so Disney World and Cheesecake Factory can reopen nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Go for it, then, you dipshits.

But don't get the virus because you'll just be spreading it around and using up medical resources. Spare us that and just jump off a bridge or something.

Seriously, fuck these people.

[targetpractice]

5. "Please proceed, Governor."

Someone once said.

[Iliyah]

6. Talk is cheap . .

Actions speak louder than words . . .

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Idiots. I don't care what they want to do on their own time or dime. Just don't bother me while...

you're ranting and raving. That is, leave the rest of us alone.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Finally, I've found the group of people who become henchmen in Bond films

I've always thought that the number of heavies that, in the scene where the baddie's lair/plot is falling apart, are still willing to put their lives on the line when it's damn obvious they are not going to get paid again, is ridiculous. Any self-respecting mercenary would be saving their own skin at that point.

But now I see; it's the dumbasses in the Republican party who are willing to die to keep their evil overlords rich.

[blitzen]

9. One wonders: What is "good" about the "economy" that they're willing to die for? n/t

[unblock]

10. They are not volunteering to die, they are volunteering to kill.

Yeah, some of the volunteers will die too, but mostly it will be innocent people who will die.

Needlessly.

[sop]

11. "There are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me..."

Patrick, Glenn Beck and others like him, don't really mean old folks "like me," they're really talking about the poor and minorities. These guys will be the first in line to be hooked up to ventilators and taking up ICU beds.

[Happy Hoosier]

12. I encourage them to do so....

... fucking cultists....

[muntrv]

13. As Barack Obama said:

[RandySF]

14. Be my guests.

[EarthFirst]

15. Toss 'em into one of those mega-churches and be done with it... nt