A barbaric disregard for peoples lives, to justify Re electing Trump. Partial re opening, with a 3 day work week and social distancing works
Mnuchin what you said is beyond despicable. And I mean this literally. Contemptible. Having a 3 day work week, with people with staggered work schedules so social distancing can take effect while restoring some economic activity works. Having people forced back to work full time is a recipede for murder. I mean this literally.
Beyond the insanity of what was said, a 3 day provisional work week might, if it entailed very strict social distancing would allow up to 70% of laid off workers to have partial re engagement with economic activity.
I know you are a Trump cabinet official.What you are proposing looks like a way to get people killed for a Potemkin village done just to conn Trump voters into re electing Trump.
A "Potemkin village" signifies any deceptive or false construct, conjured often by cruel regimes, to deceive both those within the land and those peering in from outside.
Your proposal for full re engagement is that and more, and I and others would hold you and Trump responsible for mass deaths.
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'We can't shut down the economy again,' Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says as fears of a 2nd wave of COVID-19 mount
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
- Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in a Thursday interview with CNBC that the US can't shut down its economy again.
- "I think we've learned that if you shut down the economy, you're going to create more damage," he said.
- Parts of the US have seen new COVID-19 cases spike — and total US cases surpassed 2 million this week — as the economy reopens.
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Thursday that another economic shutdown would harm the US, even in the event of a second wave of COVID-19 cases.
"We can't shut down the economy again," Mnuchin said during an interview with CNBC. "I think we've learned that if you shut down the economy, you're going to create more damage."
That damage goes beyond economic fallout, extending to "medical problems and everything else that get put on hold," he said.
"I think it was very prudent what the president did," Mnuchin said, "but I think we've learned a lot."
Fears have mounted that a second wave of coronavirus cases has emerged since US states began to reopen. US stocks slumped on Thursday, reversing recent gains, after the Federal Reserve said unemployment is likely to stay elevated for years and the US's total case count surpassed 2 million.
On Wednesday, Texas reported 2,504 new COVID-19 cases, the highest one-day count since the pandemic began. Florida also reported a staggering 8,553 new cases this week, about one month into the state's reopening, Bloomberg reported. In California, COVID-19 hospitalizations have surged as well.
Still, Mnuchin cheered stimulus efforts by Congress and the Federal Reserve. He also said he was prepared to ask Congress for more money to boost the US economy if necessary.
"We're going to get everybody back to work," he said. "That's my No. 1 job working with the president, and we're going to do that."
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Mnuchin what you said is beyond despicable. And I mean this literally. Contemptible. Having a 3 day work week, with people with staggered work schedules so social distancing can take effect while restoring some economic activity works. Having people forced back to work full time is a recipede for murder. I mean this literally.
Beyond the insanity of what was said, a 3 day provisional work week might, if it entailed very strict social distancing would allow up to 70% of laid off workers to have partial re engagement with economic activity.
I know you are a Trump cabinet official.What you are proposing looks like a way to get people killed for a Potemkin village done just to conn Trump voters into re electing Trump.
A "Potemkin village" signifies any deceptive or false construct, conjured often by cruel regimes, to deceive both those within the land and those peering in from outside.
Your proposal for full re engagement is that and more, and I and others would hold you and Trump responsible for mass deaths.
summary: It is beyond contemptible to have the USA turned into a giant "Potemkin village" . And those who try to do that with say 2 million deaths will be held responsible for the resulting Carnage
Andrew Beckwith, PhD