"I think the market is a great green god..."

This is genocide. Republican party leaders want to satisfy their own material needs by killing the most vulnerable. They know that black and brown people are disproportionately dying from Covid-19.

White people must speak out now. Don't be complicit.https://t.co/KaGnXzrk8O

— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) April 21, 2020

And it demands blood sacrifices of...others, so long as they aren't Dan Patrick.

Turns out it was worse than I thought; then again, it usually is.

“What I said when I was with you that night is there are more important things than living,” Patrick told Fox News host Tucker Carlson, referring to when he first made the suggestion last month. “And that’s saving this country for my children and my grandchildren and saving this country for all of us.”

“And I don’t want to die, nobody wants to die,” he added. “But man we’ve got to take some risks and get back in the game and get this country back up and running.”

Patrick brushed off warnings from White House COVID-19 task force official Dr. Anthony Fauci and other health experts who say that it’s too soon to reopen the economy and that doing so at this moment would undermine the progress made in flattening the curve.

“They told us, Tucker, to follow the science,” the lieutenant governor said. “Well, what science?”

Again, my first response is:  you go first, Lt. Gov.  Go ahead and die now and see if it proves your point.  There are plenty of stories of people who pubicly defied the threat of this virus and almost immediately died from it.  Why shouldn't you add your body to the pile to prove....what?  What will more death prove?  Small business owners in Georgia already revile their Governor and say they won't reopen because if they do and customers and employees get sick, then what?  They're as good as out of business, that's what.  Tell me, Lite Guv, have you ever met a payroll?  Been responsible for a business, had to deal with customers and employees?

Sit down and shut up, you're an idiot and it shows.  Worse than an idiot, you're a monster.  If this country is only its commerce and its commercialism, there's already nothing left worth saving.