“We are hoping to work with the administration on a coordinated, government-wide plan to respond to the coronavirus,” Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement, before going on to express concern that Donald Trump “continues to manufacture needless chaos within his administration and it is hampering the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.”

Pelosi and Schumer called on Trump to work with Democrats on an agenda to protect the working people of the United States from devastation. That means “clear standards and sufficient distribution of necessary protective equipment for health care and other workers” exposed to coronavirus patients—including the workers who clean affected buildings—as well as “widespread and free” testing for the disease, affordable treatment for sick people, protections against price-gouging, and increasing capacity in the medical system so that there are enough hospital beds and healthcare workers.

But an effective response doesn’t stop there. It also means paid sick leave, so that workers don’t face the choice between going to work sick and infecting other people or doing the responsible thing of staying home, but losing pay as a result. The way we keep this thing from spreading is for sick people to stay home, but people who can’t feed their families or stay housed if they don’t go to work won’t be able to do that. A decent and humane coronavirus response also means expanding food aid and making sure that unemployment benefits “are available and sufficient for workers who may lose their jobs from the economic impacts of the epidemic.” Otherwise, even people who don’t get sick may be devastated by the outbreak.

Trump is freaking out about the markets, but for working people, these measures are at least as important when we talk about the economic impact of coronavirus.