I can't handle the "we need to restart the economy for workers' lives" argument.

Here's why:

Microscopic crises happen to people's lives every day: job loss, illness, financial ruin, mental health disruptions, death.

The same people who are now clambering for people to get back to work shrug at these tragedies.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, get over it, move on, should have saved more money.

Individual suffering really means nothing to these people.

Get back to work means going back to living paycheck to paycheck, not even having a single month's rent of savings in your checking account.

It's a perpetuation of this fucked up system of low wages, high housing costs, wealth inequality.

Getting people back to work isn't just about feeding the investor economy. It's about getting people back to a state of normalcy as quickly as possible so they don't have time to realize how fucked up the system is.

There are many policy solutions that would ease people's lives both in the current crisis and in future difficulties they might face. UBI, universal healthcare, increased minimum wage, debt relief, rent relief.

They want to get people back into their jobs as soon as possible so they can get back to working their asses off just to scrape by.

This isn't to diminish the tremendous suffering out-of-work people are going through right now.

It's awful and we need more humane solutions.

It's not just about now. It's about the financial situation of the majority of Americans.

They don't want people demanding systemic changes.

They'll risk lives to get back to the status quo as quickly as possible.