[tyre]

> The insanity is that people pushing to re-open the economy are being called shills for wall street.

I don't know where you're hearing this. I think people generally understand that SMBs are getting fucking wrecked by this.

The argument against has nothing to do with Wall Street. It has to do with there being a pandemic and keeping people away from each other. We re-open too soon, people die and this gets even worse.

We _should_ be talking about how businesses weather the storm. But conversations about re-opening the economy are not simply "do we want to stay closed and help rich people or do we care about the little guy."

[_bxg1]

> I don't know where you're hearing this.

I've seen this sentiment on Twitter. What happens is that, as with any concept that gets put through that digital meat-grinder, it gets simplified beyond all meaning. In this case people read it as "Republicans are suggesting we should sacrifice vulnerable lives to the economy". And when they see "the economy", they read it as "the rich". "The rich think we should sacrifice our lives for their pocketbooks" is obviously an inflammatory idea, and therefore it spreads. Small businesses never enter the conversation.

[chrisco255]

Nevermind the fact that big businesses are about to go bankrupt too. The airline industry is in trouble. Deep trouble. The tourism industry alone is huge and completely decimated right now. Disney World is shut down. Universal. Beaches shut down. Entire regional economies are built on tourism, like Florida's. You're putting hundreds of thousands of employees out of work. And even the big businesses have capital expenses and they're not sitting on 6 months worth of savings. They're going to have to make massive and permanent layoffs that will take years to crawl back from.