Former Wells Fargo CEO Says Healthy Americans Should Return To Work In April: ‘Some May Even Die’ – By Tyler MacDonald (Inquisitr) / March 25 2020
In an interview with Bloomberg published on Wednesday, former Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich pushed for healthy Americans below the age of 55 to return to work in April. Although Kovacevich said a return should come when the coronavirus outbreak is under control, he acknowledged the possibility that reopening the economy at such a time could cause some deaths.
“We’ll gradually bring those people back and see what happens,” he said. “Some of them will get sick, some may even die, I don’t know.”
Kovacevich echoed Donald Trump, who recently expressed his desire to reopen the U.S. economy by Easter during a Fox News town hall, also acknowledging the possibility that some people would die as a result. Like the president, Kovacevich also compared COVID-19 to the flu, despite its higher fatality rate.
“Do you want to suffer more economically or take some risk that you’ll get flu-like symptoms and a flu-like experience? Do you want to take an economic risk or a health risk? You get to choose.”
As reported by CNBC, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence discussed the coronavirus’s economic impact during a private conference call with several Wall Street billionaires on Tuesday. Investors on the call included Intercontinental Exchange’s Jeffrey Sprecher, Citadel’s Ken Griffin, Vista Equity’s Robert Smith, Third Point’s Dan Loeb, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, and Just Capital’s Paul Tudor Jones.
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