Trump Appointee Pushed For Herd Immunity By Mass Infections

Paul Alexander, a Trump appointee, urged senior officials to let “infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged [people]” get infected with COVID-19 to create “herd immunity,” according to emails obtained by the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus.


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As much as President-Elect Biden wants to put all this aside for the sake of unity and peaceful transitions of power, some things such as this cannot be left unpunished. Many in this administration should be tried for crimes against the American people when it is all said and done.

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But then how would Bill Gates get his microchips implanted?

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Paul Alexander, a Trump appointee, urged senior officials to let “infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged people” get infected with COVID-19 to create “herd immunity,” according to emails obtained by the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus.

Not much better than committing mass murder. To obtain natural herd immunity, we’ll need multiple millions to die. MILLIONS. This is stooopid. This is criminally lazy.

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gotta ‘trudge’

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The callousness of these people is really offensive. They are the death panels and they don’t care about anyone who is affected, impacted, or destroyed.

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Trump Appointee Pushed For Herd Immunity By Mass Infections

Which one this time?

Funny how certain types are so eager to play russian roulette with other people’s lives.

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How many counts of attempted manslaughter do you think will suffice?

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Herd immunity through deathly contagion. This is what you get when a policy wonk makes up his own facts in a vacuum.

Looking forward to having folks who aren’t afraid of combining facts and statistics from multiple expert sources when developing public policy.

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A primary focus of the TrumPandemic Tribunals, I’m sure.

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Comes from being best pals with Russians.

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This is a revealing bit of RW logic: rather than spending the time and money for the government to find a cure, we should just let some people die at no cost or effort to ourselves. And, of course, these conscientious servants of the American people didn’t even do the minimum homework necessary to discover the actual extent or effects of the disease.

If any regular civil service employee were that sloppy in implementing a major initiative on a life-or-death issue, they wouldn’t last five minutes.

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“The media and left have help [sic] COVID proliferate,” he wrote. “They want to destroy the nation and people’s lives just to make the President look bad…saving lives is not their aim…winning at all costs.”

/snark notice/

So weird…I hear this sort of thing from GOP trumpers so often, the whole “winning at all costs” thing, both anti-Trump (the left is doing it!) and pro-Trump (we must win at all costs!) – out loud, often, in the media, etc. And yet…I never seem to actually hear or see the same thing from the left.

So weird! Maybe the progressives are manipulating my twitter feed to create an algorithmic sense of complecency. Who knows?

/end snark/

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What is the infection number now? 16 million? That’ll do it.

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So first he wants to have people get infected for the sake of the “Doctor Death” Atlas “herd immunity” nonsense.

Then he spins right round and complains that “The media and left have help [sic] COVID proliferate".

What the actual fuck?

I mean, that would need at least a 20 IQ point upgrade just to rise to “incoherent”.

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The Ratwing can turn anything inside out and upside down like that. It makes no fucking sense but they don’t care.

I’m really mad about this. it’s truly a Crime against Humanity.

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Damn Canadians and their insidious plot to take over the country. Always knew that they weren’t as nice as everyone said.

It’s not quite as bad as suggesting a “herd immunity” approach to polio. Sure, 20% of survivors* will be crippled for life, but at least the vulnerable will eventually, probably, be protected.

* percentage created the same way as 76.4% of all statistics on the Internet.

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Gee, let’s all rename Mr. Alexander “Pandemic Paul”, akin to Typhoid Mary.

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Canadians? Who could’ve guessed? I thought it was the Mexicans who were dangerous.

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