AOC Doesn’t Want Us To Go Back To 70-Hour Work Weeks When We Reopen The Economy

For the past month and a half, the United States has seen a sweep of stay-at-home orders meant to protect communities and individuals from the deadly coronavirus. While these mandates have worked to “flatten the curve” of causing hospitals to be overwhelmed they have also caused massive job loss amongst Americans. Which is why many have taken to the streets to push back against quarantine orders and secure their jobs back.

Still, at this time researchers have tirelessly tried to explain that reopening the economy is not in the best interest of public health, or the country.

That’s why when President Donald Trump took to Twitter to encourage online extremist communities to push back against orders, many of us were not thrilled.

In a series of tweets last Friday, Trump called to “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” Later he called to “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in particular, was not amused. In a recent interview with VICE, AOC slammed President Trump’s support of protesters calling to “liberate” various states from their lockdown orders.

“Only in America, does the president, when the president tweets about liberation, does he mean ‘Go back to work,’” the progressive legislator said. “We have this discussion about ‘going back’ or ‘reopening’ — I think a lot of people should just say, ‘No, we’re not going back to that. We’re not going back to working 70-hour weeks just so that we can put food on the table and not feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.”

In another portion of the interview, Ocasio-Cortez talked about the virus’s impact on her district.

“I have to call family members, congregations, and people in our community offering condolences day in and day out. I have to talk to teenage kids who have lost their parents. I have to talk to spouses that have lost their husband or wife of several decades,” Ocasio- Cortez said speaking of her district which encompasses Queens and the Bronx.

. “I have to talk to people who have lost their pastor or who have lost their imam or who have lost their spiritual leader of their community, and you know, I have to talk to people who say, ‘Where am I going to get my next meal,’ or ‘Am I going to be evicted from my apartment next month?’”