[_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.