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Posted: 2020-03-24T20:11:12Z | Updated: 2020-03-24T21:14:56Z Trump's Priorities Inspire New Hashtag: #NotDying4WallStreet | HuffPost

Trump's Priorities Inspire New Hashtag: #NotDying4WallStreet

One Twitter user correctly noted that "not one single human being deserves to die for somebody else's stock portfolio."
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President Donald Trump seems convinced that reducing coronavirus restrictions will keep the economy afloat.

However, many Americans have a message for the White House: They’re not willing to risk death just so corporate America can reap huge profits.

The president suggested on Tuesday that he is hoping the country will be reopened by Easter , despite concerns from medical professionals that doing so will hasten the spread of COVID-19 and overwhelm the nation’s hospitals, potentially leading to millions of preventable deaths .

Although some Republican leaders have suggested that older Americans might be willing to take a chance against the coronavirus in order to save the economy, many Twitter users are skeptical about doing something that seems designed to mainly help the president’s bottom line.

Consequently, #notdying4wallstreet became a trending hashtag as Twitter users made clear that they weren’t willing to, in the words of another trending hashtag, #dieforthedow.

Some of the angrier tweets included...

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