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Trump’s Choice: The Economy or Human Lives

The president is running counter to public health experts – and some in his own administration – with his call to reopen the country soon.

AS A SELF-DESCRIBED wartime president, Donald Trump is choosing sides in the battle to curtail the damage from the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump is choosing the economy.

Clearly frustrated at the layoffs and stock market plunges that have occurred as result of stay-at-home directives and business shut-downs, Trump Tuesday doubled down on plans to loosen “social distancing” federal guidance meant to keep people from infecting each other. The nation, he declared in a Fox News virtual town hall, will be “open for business” by Easter, April 12. Continue reading.

Trump wants U.S. economy ‘opened up and raring to go’ by Easter

Washington Post logoPresident Trump on Tuesday said he hopes the nation’s dramatic response to the coronavirus pandemic will be scaled back within weeks to revive the economy and pack churches by Easter Sunday — an aspiration that was largely panned by public health experts and many elected leaders, including Republicans.

“I would love to have the country opened up and raring to go,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall broadcast from the White House Rose Garden. The holiday falls on April 12.

“Our people are full of vim and vigor and energy. They don’t want to be locked into a house or an apartment or some space,” Trump said. “It’s not for our country, and we are not built that way.” Continue reading. Free article.