The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out [...]
If you are asymptotic and you are infected, we want to get people back to the jobs, especially those with essential jobs
I like how they've been explaining it on the Death Panel podcast... for the last 2 years, whenever the US has had to choose between saving lives or making sure the capitalists' profits don't suffer, they choose profits. Every. Single. Time.
They're finally going mask off and outright saying profits first. It was always the subtext, but now it's the main talking point. I'm sure plenty of people will defend it too
"our human capital stock is ready to go back to work" -real quote by real person in charge
moooooo