Some conservatives willing to 'sacrifice the elderly' to save the economy from coronavirus: op-ed
Published 1 min ago on March 17, 2020
By Sky Palma
As the international response to the coronavirus ramps up, the inevitable damage to the world economy is unavoidable. While common sense and simple human decency would suggest that stemming the spread of infections at the price of the economy is worth it, there are some, namely conservative voices in America, who don’t exactly agree.
Writing in The Week this Tuesday, Noah Millman cites the example of CNBC host Rick Santelli, who said earlier this month that “maybe we’d be just better off if we gave [coronavirus] to everybody, and then in a month it would be over because the mortality rate of this probably isn’t going to be any different if we did it that way than the long-term picture.” According to Santelli, otherwise we’d be “wreaking havoc on global and domestic economies.”
Millman writes that this same philosophy is what caused the UK to come under an avalanche of criticism for its response to the outbreak. The logic for this line of thinking says that the elderly are not the economy’s most productive citizens, and the economic impact of them dying earlier might even be positive. Also, reserving more urgent medical treatment for the young and economically viable would prevent the health system from being overwhelmed.
“I hope nobody would be comfortable making an argument like that explicitly,” Millman writes. “But it lurks in the background of the all-purpose dismissiveness voiced by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity about the seriousness of the virus (who are following the President’s lead in doing so), or in pieces like this one by Heather Macdonald at the conservative cultural journal The New Criterion.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/some-conservatives-willing-to-sacrifice-the-elderly-to-save-the-economy-from-coronavirus-op-ed/
These assholes that use the airwaves, ie radio channels, should have there fucking license pulled................this is why the Fairness Doctrine should be brought back, so that these Clear Channel and other oligarphys are broken up...............this mentality that one group produces more than another reminds me of all the Pink Floyd album's................
And these fuckers are making millions .........................
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maybe this is not such a bad idea. We could ourselves of all theses scumbags once and for all.
I can't believe that some actually wish their parents and other elderly will just die.
It saddens me greatly. 
My parents have both been gone for almost 20 years now and there is not a day that goes by that I do not think of them and wish they were still here. They were members of the Greatest Generation. They were proud Americans that loved this county. This whole thing going on now would break their hearts and minds. 
Shame on anyone that wishes the elderly and those will illnesses will just go away and die.
& recommend.
zap these idiots.
Many years ago, I watched a video of a discussion between two young men who, even at that time, favored putting the elderly and compromised adults in a separate unit to die naturally with no treatment, whatsoever, to cut down on health costs. I was much younger then, but this video made me so angry, I immediately fired off a letter to my congressmen to let them know how cruel and selfish this was and that I expected them to think carefully about ever considering such a proposal.
I'm much older now and would be in that group shoved off into a corner to die.
I would give anything to remember the names of those two, but their names will come to me...if and when I most need them. 
is what they call us. 
