- New Cases: 313,812 (⬆︎ .82%)
- New Deaths: 5,006 (⬆︎ .46%)
USA
- New Cases: 51,534 (⬆︎ .64%)
- New Deaths: 843 (⬆︎ .38%)
So, in case you were harboring any doubts about how fucked up this "administration" is - or if you still believed our government was holding us in any regard other than lowest that's humanly possible - ladies & gents, behold the awesome wonder of a "president" who will just ignore us until we go away - or die off, so he doesn't have to hear the complaints anymore.
Proposal to hasten herd immunity to the coronavirus grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists
Maverick scientists who call for allowing the coronavirus to spread freely at “natural” rates among healthy young people while keeping most aspects of the economy up and running have found an audience inside the White House and at least one state capitol.
The scientists met last week with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist who has emerged as an influential adviser to President Trump on the pandemic.
When asked for comment, HHS referred a reporter to Azar’s subsequent Twitter statement about the meeting: “We heard strong reinforcement of the Trump Administration’s strategy of aggressively protecting the vulnerable while opening schools and the workplace.”
A senior administration official told reporters in a background briefing call Monday that the proposed strategy — which has been denounced by other infectious-disease experts and has been called “fringe” and “dangerous” by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins — supports what has been Trump’s policy for months.
“We’re not endorsing a plan. The plan is endorsing what the president’s policy has been for months. The president’s policy — protect the vulnerable, prevent hospital overcrowding, and open schools and businesses — and he’s been very clear on that,” the official said.
“Everybody knows that 200,000 people died. That’s extremely serious and tragic. But on the other hand, I don’t think society has to be paralyzed, and we know the harms of confining people to their homes,” the official added.
The piece goes on and paints a very grim picture of the darkness that has completely enveloped this White House.
And the main point stands out in stark detail: "200,000 people died and that's tragic..." must never be followed with anything that starts with "...but..." NEVER NEVER EVER
There's nothing more dismissive and condescending. It shows a callous disregard for people's lives, and shows utter disrespect for the survivors - for the people who loved those who have died because this fucked up administration couldn't get its head out of its ass when some of this shit could've been prevented, and now can't figure out how to come to terms with its fucked up response in any meaningful way, so they just pretend that hundreds of thousands of dead Americans is simply the price we have to pay for some decent returns on Wall Street's investments. It's just the cost of doin' bidness.
Fuck that shit - and fuck them.
Maybe now Americans begin to see what America has been doing to the rest of the world for over a hundred years. Maybe we finally begin to understand the kind of shitty things that happen by way of plutocratic exploitation - because now it's being turned around and focused on us.
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