It's safe to say...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He just doesn't care. The only thing he's interested in is

the performance of the stock market, and he's stupid enough to think that if everybody just goes back to work the economy will magically recover. He doesn't listen to, or care about, the opinions of the experts who tell him that this will cause many more people to get sick and possibly die. He probably doesn't believe them, because if he did he would realize that older people are a large part of his base. Why would he want to kill them off? He doesn't; he just doesn't believe the scientists because he wants the market to recover.