Ben Carson on 2nd coronavirus shutdown: 'You do that again, & you completely destroy the financial

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

infrastructure’

A second shutdown of the U.S. economy would destroy the country’s financial system, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson told Yahoo Finance.

“When you look at the damage that was done the first time, you do that again, and you completely destroy the financial infrastructure, and a lot more people would...die than would ever die from the virus,” said Carson.

The stay-at-home orders put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in mid-March have thrust the U.S. economy into a recession. Coronavirus cases are surging throughout much of the country, including Texas, Florida, and California. Intensive care units at Florida hospitals, for instance, are overwhelmed, with some states scaling back their reopening plans.

“The major failure in this situation in our country is that people are not taking [the coronavirus pandemic] seriously. And particularly, young people are not taking it seriously, because they know that their likelihood of dying is very small,” said Carson.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ben-carson-on-second-coronavirus-economic-shutdown-you-do-that-again-and-you-completely-destroy-the-financial-infrastructure-145120567.html

This asshole's a doctor? Maybe you and Trump should have got it right first go around.

[Brainfodder]

1. As if I would take ANY advice from these dolts.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. We wouldn't want that to happen, would we?

[unblock]

3. Except no, no you don't.

[abqtommy]

4. Isn't destruction the total goal of tRUMP/reTHUGS/cultists and sPUTIN?

[DBoon]

5. How many people is Carson willing to kill to save financial markets?

Maybe he should send a nice letter to the families of the deceased thanking them for their sacrifice.

[empedocles]

7. Will not save the financial markets. Some financier trump campaign contributors maybe.

[DBoon]

8. How many people is Carson willing to kill to save a few wealthy Trump backers?

I bet the families of the deceased will be REALLY thrilled about the sacrifice

[empedocles]

9. Or, how many debilitated people need to suffer. Hint, its a large multiple

of the number of deaths.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Why don't you let the adults in the room talk and you Mr. Carson go back to bed and take a nap.

[Phoenix61]

10. Sweden didn't shut down and their economy

isn’t any better than their neighbors, they just have a lot more fatalities.

[Totally Tunsie]

19. Heh - Maybe that's the plan:

The money in play remains the same, but there's just fewer people to share it so they feel better off. A rising tide lifts all boats or will it land in the pockets of a few?

Since when is Carson a financial expert? Hell, he's not even a housing or urban development expert.

[cos dem]

11. Ben Carson is proof you don't have to be very smart to be a surgeon.

One of my favorite quotes from The Simpsons:
"it's not rocket science, it's brain surgery!"

[Midnight Writer]

12. We don't need a total shutdown. We just need people to use common sense.

Yes, masks, distancing and hygiene are a drag.

Just like diet and exercise.

But they work.

[GeorgeGist]

13. One of these days, Johns Hopkins ...

is gonna expose this fraud.

[oasis]

14. Time for Ben to crawl back under his rock. nt

[Hortensis]

15. Carson's a classic example of the arrogance of those with one area

of expertise who imagine that makes them knowledgeable in other fields as well. Politics is full of outside idiots who imagine people should listen to them, and here he is with finance as well.

God knows (and "He" really should tell Carson!) he's extremely incompetent in his current position and also very immoral, beginning with taking a position any person as unfit as him but with an ounce of integrity would have refused.

[hunter]

16. The financial infrastructure is doomed, if not by this pandemic, then by global warming.

We might as well deal with the problem now, before a millions of U.S. Americans are dead, and many millions more permanently disabled by this virus.

Our existing financial infrastructure is not sustainable.

Government must be able to support people when things go wrong, so that everybody has healthy food, safe comfortable shelter, appropriate medical care, and good educational opportunities even when bad shit like pandemics happen.

Housing is your job, Dr. Carson. Don't pontificate about economics, do whatever you can to house the people who are homeless, to make unsafe housing safe, and protect those who are danger of loosing their housing.

Otherwise you are a useless fuck-up, sir, just like Betsy DeVos, Mike Pence.... and Donald Trump himself.

[Cha]

17. Buzz Off ben carson.

[Progressive Jones]

18. We will survive, Ben. You might not, but WE will. nt