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Chris Christie told CNN’s Dana Bash on the The Daily DC podcast that he thinks that states across the country should stop social distancing and lift lockdowns in order to put people back to work. “Of course, everybody wants to save every life they can — but the question is, towards what end, ultimately?” He continued, “Are there ways that we can … thread the middle here to allow that there are going to be deaths, and there are going to be deaths no matter what?”
He then went on to say that Americans would have to accept a reopening whether they feel safe or not. “We’ve got to let some of these folks get back to work, because if we don’t, we’re going to destroy the American way of life in these families — and it will be years and years before we can recover,” Christie said.
To top it off, the former New Jersey governor then said that if he were in the Oval Office, he would send a message to the American people that they’ve “gone through significant death before,” pointing to the first and second World Wars. He concluded, “we’ve gone through it and we’ve survived it. We sacrificed those lives.”
President Donald Trump would also like to start opening up the country so that Americans can go back to work despite the prediction that over 100,000 lives could be lost, per CNN.
Written by: Nicki
