Navarro Warns Shutdown Could Be More Deadly Than Virus

[spanone]

This guy is truly a piece of shit...

WASHINGTON — As the White House debates when and how to reopen the economy, one emerging argument is that an extended shutdown could pose a more dire long-term health threat to the United States than the coronavirus itself.

Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser who is now coordinating the country’s medical supply chain, is warning that a prolonged shutdown of nonessential commerce could result in a broad range of negative health effects that he contends medical experts are ignoring in their efforts to flatten the curve of coronavirus cases.

“It’s disappointing that so many of the medical experts and pundits pontificating in the press appear tone-deaf to the very significant losses of life and blows to American families that may result from an extended economic shutdown,” Mr. Navarro said in an interview with The New York Times.

“Instead, they piously preen on their soap boxes speaking only half of the medical truth without reference or regard for the other half of the equation,” he said, “which is the very real mortal dangers associated with the closure of the economy for an extended period.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/coronavirus-navarro-economic-shutdown.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[SheltieLover]

1. I think

this ahole should immediately report to work in a low paying job working face-to-face with the public, in a hot zone, with no protective gear. 👍

[demtenjeep]

11. he should go to NYC and be the toe tag guy

to all their deaths

[Desert grandma]

2. Is he for real????

What doesn't he understand about the economic crisis IS CAUSED BY THE MEDICAL CRISIS??? Until you have the medical crisis under control, you WILL NOT improve the economic crisis. As a matter of fact, it could make it much, much, worse. These people have already failed in their initial response to this virus.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. The charge of murder by rump or any of his cronies should be seriously undertaken..

by any of the 'blue' states to protect all of us, should they push the collapse of the economy excuse, please! I doubt that anyone will work in an unsafe environment anyway. Forcing Americans to work, I wonder how that is going to look? Just wait, I predict that they'll 'order' a sample state and its workers to 'go to work'. I wouldn't be surprised.

[justhanginon]

4. Peter Navarro, a self described expert who in reality

is an expert in absolutely nothing. Just another of trump's sycophantic hangers on spewing bullshit!

[mr_lebowski]

5. He is a piece of shit, especially for phrasing it this way ... BUT ...

The point overall ... should be considered.

My first concern being how many stupid and/or mentally unbalanced people there are here ... and how many guns they have. And how gullible many of them are to RW/CT propaganda.

Second concern being how many people live paycheck to paycheck.

Third concern being how fucking incompetent the Trump Administration is.

[Demsrule86]

9. Opening up the states should not be considered while the epidemic rages...and more testing is

needed before anything is opened up.

[mr_lebowski]

13. I'm just saying it's worth considering what the ancillary health effects are likely to be ...

I'm not saying I know what the logical outcome of weighing those effects are going to be, but I don't think they should necessarily logically be totally ignored.

If 1M would likely die of a virus, but 20M would likely die of starvation ... which do you choose?

Note: not real numbers obviously, but that's the general idea of what should be calculated and weighed.

[BusyBeingBest]

17. I agree, he's right in some respects, but only because there is no real safety net.

There are people being denied a living right now, and they are going to be reliant on relatively scanty government relief for some time.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. I'm not an economist. I don't even play one on tv. How would a catastrophic

number of disease related deaths affect the economy?

[brewens]

7. It can only ruin working class people because they have made it that way. We'll see how many

like seeing the wealthy come out ahead on this when they have lost everything. They are trying to cash in big time. I really hope we don't let them get away with it this time.

[jls4561]

8. It's become my standard reply to these idiots, but here it is again:

Peter - go eat a pangolin!

[Takket]

10. unless you are going to make the argument that 2-3 million will die from staying at home...

then that argument falls pretty flat. there is no doubt that the strain of this is going to lead to untimely deaths.... suicides, for instance... but i consider those persons to also be victims of the virus.

and what about all the everyday deaths not happening, does Navarro want to count those in his equation too? Deaths by auto accident? workplace accidents? SCHOOL SHOOTINGs...... none of those are happening now.

in the end the shutdown saves the most lives, and it isn't even close.

[spanone]

12. Sounds like he's rehashing the 'we can't have the cure be worse than the problem' bullshit

Navarro's lips are superglued to trump's ass.

[uponit7771]

19. +1

[PSPS]

14. And it turns out that navarro is "More Deadly Than Virus"

[procon]

15. Does he list any of these "very real mortal dangers" and

"very significant losses of life "?

Am I going to die because I can't buy a box of Krispy Kream donuts? Well, yeah, that's quite possible! LOL

Am I in mortal danger because I can't get my hair cut and styled? I dunno, but this bedhead look is beginning to grow on me.

Show me the list, Navarro,. Where does it say who's going to depart this mortal coil because some cash registers aren't singing kaching-kaching to fluff up the economy just in time to make Trump look good before the election?

[Midnight Writer]

16. "Opening" too soon is like a patient not taking his full course of antibiotics. Reinfection follows.

"Opening" too soon is like spraying a few roaches and assuming your problem is solved. Reinfection follows.

"Opening" too soon is like defeating Trump and leaving a GOP Senate intact. Reinfection follows.

[ElementaryPenguin]

21. Then go get yourself infected, Pete!!

Fuckhead!!!