The Crowded, COVID-Friendly WH RNC Was, Apparently, No Mistake | Talking Points Memo

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You might have been concerned to see Thursday night that, in addition to branding the White House like it was a Trump hotel, the President had not insisted that the hundreds of guests in attendance for the Republican National Convention take normal precautions to protect against COVID-19.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1329462
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The end point for the anti-science Trump regime has always been: “we don’t care how many die so long as the rich can get richer.”

Yeah, they’ll use slightly different words, but that’s the essence of it. Pure greed, obsessive selfishness, and contempt for Americans, in particular Trump’s dumb cult.

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The whole idea behind flattening the curve, masking and social distancing, etc. is to prevent the public health system from being overwhelmed until a vaccine is created. This will help the economy recover, not hinder it, Sweden’s “experiment” has shown that Its following a herd immunity scheme has resulted in excess deaths and economic recovery no better than it’s neighbors. If Atlas’ “ideas”, scheme, were to be implemented, the death toll could exceed 16M Americans and the healthcare system as well as the economy could collapse.

This is Stalinism at it’s most cynical.

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Atlas isn’t a “senior White House official,” as referenced in Acosta’s report. He is, at best, a “senior White House advisor.” The “senior White House official” is almost certainly Mark Meadows, as that kind of callous and condescending indifference is his specialty.

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The problem, of course, is that thousands or millions more people would die on the way to herd immunity. But a fairly new addition to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Scott Atlas, has nonetheless advocated for it.

Sounds like a final solution.

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I’m not seeing how we won’t have to have state-authorized executions in the future.

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Hoover Institute is probably not the most embarrassing thing for Stanford, but is there anyone there who is not a clownish hack?

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Stanford or Hoover?

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Hoover.
If you were going to say Thomas Sowell, bonus points for the next Bingo

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I would have said Colin Powell, who is not a hack though he did fail his test of honor,

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In 1969, indeed.

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Could someone tell Scott Atlas and the other charlatans that herd immunity is not defined as “get as many people sick as possible”? It means every person who can take precautions should in order to protect the ones who can’t. Most years, that means getting a flu vaccine if possible. Right now, it means properly wearing a mask and social distancing.

(Originally posted on another comment thread before @occamscoin pointed me to this. Thanks, OC).

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they’re just warming up.
this is just death by negligence. given time you’ll see more disappearances, round ups, and terrible things that I cannot imagine.

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At this point, I have no compunction wishing every one of these asshats a bad case of COVID.
They’ve heard the science and if they want to sicken themselves in their worship of their orange idol, more success to them.