It’s a false choice to say you have to choose between getting the pandemic under control and saving the economy.

Republicans and their wealthy constituency are unwilling to try anything because to even cede an inch would mean admitting our economic order is intentionally unfair.

The powerful in this country know our economy, with its cruelty and vast inequality, is a fragile order in their favor and to even attempt to address the pandemic or people’s suffering might topple that rigged game.

It’s really very simple.

The wealthy and powerful value their wealth and power more than your life, your family’s lives, and the lives of every other American. They’ll sacrifice millions without blinking.

That’s the reality of this situation.

What Trump and the ghouls around him symbolize perfectly is the corporate ethos of pursuing profit at the expense of lives while hiding behind the flimsiest veneer of public relations.

That, plus a disaster like this pandemic, leads to mass tragedy. We must reject this.