On Sunday, the White House convened a conference call with roughly a dozen business leaders, in addition to conservative economist Stephen Moore, whose nomination to the Fed was universally panned and who has asked questions like “Think of the human suffering, from the, in terms of the lost income, the lost life savings—is that worth it, to deal with this?” In an interview with Bloomberg, Moore recalled that “All but maybe one or two of the 12 or so people on the call were saying we’ve got to urge the president to go to the country to have some kind of date certain to have the economy up and running again because the devastation is too severe.” He added that it was his brilliant idea to dub Easter an “economic resurrection day,” offering the extremely scientific take that “There is a kind of important symbolic importance of that date. It’s a date everyone knows, everyone has their eye on Easter. It’s an appropriate time.”

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And if you thought that was stupid and reckless

The far-right sees your “let’s send people back to work prematurely” and raises it a “let’s make the oldest and most vulnerable people go to work since they’re going to die anyway.” Per Politico:

Forget “15 days to slow the spread.” A growing chorus of conservatives have started arguing that older adults should voluntarily return to work to save the country from financial ruin. Call it “economic patriotism.” The proposal has taken root in some conservative circles, filtering up from far-right websites to radio pundits to a few prominent politicians to, finally, Fox News. To its proponents, the approach is merely the cold reality that the country needs to avoid another Great Depression. To its detractors, it’s like a battlefield cry to offer up your own life for the sake of the gross domestic product. To health professionals, it’s a recipe for extending the coronavirus pandemic.

“I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working, even if we all get sick,” reliably insane person Glenn Beck said Tuesday. “I would rather die than kill the country, because it’s not the economy that’s dying, it’s the country.”