Report: US lawmaker prefers to allow more deaths to save economy

KUALA LUMPUR (April 14): A US congressman has publicly stated that saving the economy is more important than a halting a “new wave” of COVID-19 deaths, reported NBC News today.

"It is policymakers' decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils.

“It is not zero evil, but it is the lesser of these two evils, and we intend to move forward that direction,” Republican Rep Trey Hollingsworth told radio station WIBC-FM of Indianapolis.

Hollingsworth explained that he is “willing to push the good life over a longer life”.

"We are going to have to look Americans in the eye and say, 'We are making the best decisions for the most Americans possible,' and the answer to that is to get Americans back to work, to get Americans back to their businesses," he said.

Hollingsworth explained to WIBC-FM that “looming economic losses are far too severe to continue with sheltering-in-place orders designed to limit the person-to-person spread of coronavirus”.

"It is always the American government's position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter," he added.

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