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intrepidity

(7,241 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:30 PM Apr 2020

What Trump is doing with these protestors

He is running his very own experiment in "letting it burn through." We know--because he's told us--that he has wondered what would happen if we did nothing, and let the virus run through a population, in order to establish herd immunity.

Well, he has found his population that is willing to oblige and offer themselves up as lab rats.

Trump--being a psychopath--has no concern for the many who will die in the process, even though they are his supporters.

(And it goes without saying that he has no concern for the burden on health care workers and resources that it will cause.)

It's even probable that his plan includes providing the stolen PPE--that the Feds have been confiscating from blue states--to these areas of his experiment.

I'd go even further and presume that there will be massive under-testing and thus under-reporting of infections and deaths (that is, covid-related deaths being unreported as having been covid-related).

So, it will appear that it went well, that no dramatic outbreak occurred. Of course, health care workers will be screaming otherwise, but they will be ignored, the same as they are ignored now. Trump has already branded them as crying wolf, and his base bought it.

The surviving protestors will likely indeed have immunity after this, and will have no problem turning out to vote in person in November. As long as Trump succeeds in limiting vote-by-mail, Dems will be forced to go in person to the polls.

To Trump's evil and deranged mind, this will be a win for him.

So: what do we do about this?

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As I told my wife kurtcagle Apr 2020 #1
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kurtcagle

(1,601 posts)
1. As I told my wife
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 10:43 PM
Apr 2020

These yahoos are the control group - what happens if you do nothing.

These rallies will end quickly enough. Too many of the protesters - most of them older and in less than great health to being with - will find themselves unable to get the medical care they need, will have friends or lovers or children getting sick, and they will become social pariahs. Once that happens, I think the dam will break even in Trumpville.

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