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In reply to the discussion: 'We want them infected': Trump appointee demanded 'herd immunity' strategy, emails reveal [View all]Runningdawg
(4,512 posts)35. It's not about herd immunity, it never was.
Martial law is not logistically possible unless you kill off at least a quarter of the population first.
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'We want them infected': Trump appointee demanded 'herd immunity' strategy, emails reveal [View all]
highplainsdem
Dec 2020
OP
While at risk people hide in their homes not able to do what is needed to buy food and pay bills.
LizBeth
Dec 2020
#2
Read somewhere, can't recall where, that Fred tRump and pyscho Donald were
SammyWinstonJack
Dec 2020
#107
Reminds me of the Inquisition where they'd burn you at the stake to save your soul.
NotHardly
Dec 2020
#68
Might backfire & kill off their base. I'd call that geno-suicide but whatever....
rickyhall
Dec 2020
#71
"Herd immunity approach to covid" roughly translates to "endlosung der covidfrage"
unblock
Dec 2020
#5
Encouraging people to get infected (and possibly get sick, become disabled, die)
BusyBeingBest
Dec 2020
#6
So, reduce the surplus population, leaving more for the greedheads. Sounds like a plan.
SammyWinstonJack
Dec 2020
#108
Proof...Here is the Proof!!!!! Paul Alexander to jail..Do not pass Go, Do not collect $200...no
Stuart G
Dec 2020
#13
He chose a patriotic date to advocate killing American citizens. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2020
#28
The emails don't show that such policies were ever put into effect. (n/t)
thesquanderer
Dec 2020
#43
The world has been here before. The last time a new set of codes were establish. NOTE #1.
usaf-vet
Dec 2020
#31
A lot of people don't know they have any underlying conditions. A lot of people do not see their
chowder66
Dec 2020
#38
Looks as though they weren't even factoring in the possibility of a vaccine?
not fooled
Dec 2020
#56
Repug's never fail to enact the most benighted, bombastic and minacious "solutions" possible
lambchopp59
Dec 2020
#60
Sure, herd immunity, for a class of virus that humans exhibit no *long term* natural immunity.
Pobeka
Dec 2020
#61
More sadistic mythology in place of hard science from the folks who brought you Donald J. Trump
Ford_Prefect
Dec 2020
#66
Arrest these sociopathic SOB's. They are responsible for mass death. Pure and simple.
Evolve Dammit
Dec 2020
#96
Covering my face with a pillow and screaming into it for the next 30 minutes.
Duncan Grant
Dec 2020
#97
It seems that empathy is a disqualifier for a high-level job in this adminstration.
BobTheSubgenius
Dec 2020
#116