"If they stay closed for another month, month and a half, you're gonna have body bags of businesses that never recover." Stephen Moore, co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and member of the president's council to reopen the country (May 4, 2020)
Sometimes tone deaf doesn't quite cover it. On a day when the COVID-19 death toll hit 70,000, and reports of FEMA having ordered 100,000 body bags echoed through the news, Stephen Moore tried to muster up sympathy for business with the above comment.
Bob Dietz
May 8, 2020