https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/30/wilbur-ross-coronavirus-jobs/
During an appearance on Fox Business Thursday morning, Ross said that he didn’t “want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate, very malignant disease," and that “every American’s heart has to go out to the victims." But he added that the pneumonia-like virus would be taken into consideration by American businesses that are scrambling to determine how the outbreak affects their supply chains.
My take: If there's a "but" after your "It's horrible that people are dying" clause, you should delete the whole sentence. If you don't, you have declared yourself an enemy of humanity.
This is what happens when you fetishize jobs in general and "American jobs" in particular as your metric for success. If it's about jobs, then let's just destroy all the farm machinery and, of course, get rid of the earth movers and give workers spoons.
A healthy economy destroys jobs that are no longer necessary and creates ones that previously did not exist. Creating work is easy, but stifles progress. We should not want mere work in the form of jobs, but jobs that are more than just work and actually create value. That's harder and it requires genuinely liberal institutions, including free trade and migration.