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.
I think this assumes more competence of the capitalist owners than they actually possess. They're not going in to the office, and they can just have middle management hire more bodies if needed. What more calculus would they need to do, from their perspective?
I don't know, I could see business leaders teaming up with the Biden administration to fund these sort of think-tanks. Not a lot of thought went into the comment beyond that, but you could be right!