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Lots Of Our Friends Are Perplexed By Trump’s Most Recent Tweet. We Think We Know Exactly What He Means.
And what he means is he could be embarking on an even more reckless path regarding Coronavirus. And disregarding the very lives of many Americans.
Because what we believe he’s referring to is an emerging philosophy (or rather bunch of BS) in the banking community, summed up by the former head of the giant investment bank, Goldman Sachs, who Tweeted this just an hour or two earlier:
In other words, the market’s going to continue to tank, and the economy’s going to continue to falter, if the U.S. continues strict lockdowns and distancing measures and doesn’t put potentially sick people back to work. Soon. And that ultimately might have more impact on the future of the country than the ravages of a virus. (Implication: so what if COVID-19 kills a couple of more thousand people, as long as the economy is spared further blows?)
Because the whole point of “flattening the curve” is allowing the virus to take more time to move through the population and resolve…
