I am going to excerpt this in full because no abbreviation could do it justice.
A top Trump appointee repeatedly urged top health officials to adopt a “herd immunity” approach to Covid-19 and allow millions of Americans to be infected by the virus, according to internal emails obtained by a House watchdog and shared with POLITICO.
“There is no other way, we need to establish herd, and it only comes about allowing the non-high risk groups expose themselves to the virus. PERIOD,” then-science adviser Paul Alexander wrote on July 4 to his boss, Health and Human Services assistant secretary for public affairs Michael Caputo, and six other senior officials.
“Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions etc. have zero to little risk….so we use them to develop herd…we want them infected…” Alexander added.
“[I]t may be that it will be best if we open up and flood the zone and let the kids and young folk get infected” in order to get “natural immunity…natural exposure,” Alexander wrote on July 24 to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, Caputo and eight other senior officials. Caputo subsequently asked Alexander to research the idea, according to emails obtained by the House Oversight Committee’s select subcommittee on coronavirus.
Alexander also argued that colleges should stay open to allow Covid-19 infections to spread, lamenting in a July 27 email to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield that “we essentially took off the battlefield the most potent weapon we had…younger healthy people, children, teens, young people who we needed to fastly [sic] infect themselves, spread it around, develop immunity, and help stop the spread.”
This is how you kill 300,000 Americans in nine months and leave the country with the highest infection rate in the world. You do it on purpose. If anything, things are not as bad as they wanted them to be. They’re disappointed that meddling health and elected officials acted to limit the spread. I don’t know what combination of malice, stupidity and greed explains it, but it’s a crime against humanity at least on a par with the Confederacy.
We definitely need a truth and reconciliation period in this country to deal with these criminals and the hold they have on at least 74 million dupes who want to follow their lead.
Yeah, but aside from the mass mortality, ……
Every time my rage starts to diminish ….
And the “immunity” for those who catch it and survive is what? 60 days? 90 days? It’s not permanent immunity. And can those who had it still spread it, even during an immunity period? No one knows. What they were wanting was to cull those who inconveniently had horrific consequences of the disease, and once they were gone, dead, and buried, those who had demonstrated resilience and the ability to recover would make up the remaining Americans left. It is literally another perverse iteration of manipulating to achieve some sort of “master race” who demonstrated higher than normal survival characteristics which the other, “weak and feeble ones” were not able to demonstrate. It seems analogous to a concentration camp train, where those who depart the train are pointed either to the left or to the right. To the right, you might actually survive your experience, albeit with much possible suffering. To the left, it was certain death.
The evil it takes for these people to do this is in a ghoulish and inhuman class all its own.
How will we ever get a master race without a little bit of suffering?
https://www.studyfinds.org/children-with-covid-blood-vessel-damage/
Virtually all children!
So much we don’t know about this virus, which is why they call it “novel”. We may be looking at side effect illness for generations to come (“long haulers”).
Trump and his enablers like and admire the brutality and disregard for the welfare of others that drips from the recommendations of the “science advisor”.
I’m disgusted that such petty idiots play the victim act (“I was treated unfairly” etc.) and that so many people are suckers for it.
Presumably this is to “help the economy.” It is very nearly mindless: weak epidemiology, shallow economics, and pathetic political awareness. They, in this case Trumpies but also GOPers in general, think they can do things better, and it is always some over simplification and ignoring of actual experience.
The aim is to eliminate human beings as quickly as possible and have economy stay strong or unaffected. Today, the Congress passed legislation to fund businesses, and some other good things. However, they could not afford any monies to the blue states, where people are starving and waiting hours in long lines to pick up some food. The Republicans deliberately ignore the suffering and pain of those who suffer the most from the administrations bad management of the pandemic. Rather than help, they magnify the failure to assist. Where are the mighty protests about this obscene failure today in this “great” country???