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Is Trump Giving Up On Dealing With The Virus And Is Now Just Going..... (Original Post) global1 May 2020 OP
He's creating a massive distraction of dead people C_U_L8R May 2020 #1
This .. Iliyah May 2020 #3
He doesn't care. He just wants his rallies LeftInTX May 2020 #2
THIS ! procon May 2020 #12
He just wants to go back to being a "TV Actor" SharonAnn May 2020 #16
might have been the plan all along rampartc May 2020 #4
I don't think he ever had a plan, and he doesn't have one now. Mariana May 2020 #11
He's giving up on dealing with the virus and going back to his rallies. tanyev May 2020 #5
We should have known it would come to this, right? Goodheart May 2020 #6
By having no policy, he will take credit for any successes, place blame on any failures. tinrobot May 2020 #7
When it fails, he and the republicans can't hide . . . Iliyah May 2020 #10
He has no idea what herd immunity means. Mariana May 2020 #8
Business as usual. UncleNoel May 2020 #9
He is BOOOOORED. NCDem47 May 2020 #13
+1 SoonerPride May 2020 #18
What NCDem47 says. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2020 #14
He knows the economy is his only hope of being reelected budkin May 2020 #15
it wasn't his economy anyway Nature Man May 2020 #22
He's going back to his original idea liberalmediaaddict May 2020 #17
Depending on the natural R0 it can take anywhere from 60-90% JCMach1 May 2020 #25
CDC says median Ro is 5.7, the CFR looks to be 5%. CFR of American Flu was 2.6. We're screwed if uponit7771 May 2020 #27
No, he's purposely thinning the herd. ecstatic May 2020 #19
He may, indeed, be hoping more Democrats in cities die. He's not a deep thinker. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #20
you're assuming he's capable of having a thought Nature Man May 2020 #23
Trump never did anything rockfordfile May 2020 #21
Plan A was chloroquinine... There was/is no other plan JCMach1 May 2020 #24
✨✨✨YES !!!✨✨✨ Watch American Experience Influenza 1918. He thinks he can do the same thing uponit7771 May 2020 #26
I believe he is trying herd immunity. nt Kahuna May 2020 #28
Yeah thats the plan JustGene May 2020 #29
He's trying to gaslight us spinbaby May 2020 #30

procon

(15,805 posts)
12. THIS !
Tue May 5, 2020, 08:28 PM
May 2020

Trump doesn't even know what herd immunity is. He's tired of playing doctor. All the experts are stealing the show. People are mocking his ignorance and laughing at his whacky ideas.

He wants to go back to playing the stable genius in charge of the economy. So make this virus crap go away, stop report the bad numbers on the dead and dying, and let's all get ready to rally!

rampartc

(5,372 posts)
4. might have been the plan all along
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:52 PM
May 2020

disbanding the task force seems more than a little premature, don't you think?

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
11. I don't think he ever had a plan, and he doesn't have one now.
Tue May 5, 2020, 08:12 PM
May 2020

He's tired of hearing about it, and he just wants it all to go away.

tanyev

(42,496 posts)
5. He's giving up on dealing with the virus and going back to his rallies.
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:55 PM
May 2020

He couldn’t care less about how many people die.

Goodheart

(5,307 posts)
6. We should have known it would come to this, right?
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:59 PM
May 2020

When money is king what does it matter if 100,000 of us die? Or 5 million?

"Herd immunity" means that so many people have died that the survivors say it was unavoidable, anyway, for the greater good.

tinrobot

(10,882 posts)
7. By having no policy, he will take credit for any successes, place blame on any failures.
Tue May 5, 2020, 08:03 PM
May 2020

If something goes wrong, he points fingers at WHO, the Chinese, the governor of the state, Democrats, the Press, and/or Obama.

If something goes right, it was all him. (even though it wasn't)

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
8. He has no idea what herd immunity means.
Tue May 5, 2020, 08:06 PM
May 2020

I don't think he's going for anything. There's no plan. There's no goal. He's just bored with dealing with the virus, so he's not going to do it anymore.

NCDem47

(2,248 posts)
13. He is BOOOOORED.
Tue May 5, 2020, 08:30 PM
May 2020

“I’m so over this. Can’t golf. Didn’t get to Mar-a-Lago this winter or spring. I miss the rallies. Let’s get this over with. So what. Old, poor people will die. That’s life.”

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,809 posts)
14. What NCDem47 says.
Tue May 5, 2020, 10:04 PM
May 2020

He probably isn't capable of planning anything. He's certainly not capable of any subtle planning.

budkin

(6,697 posts)
15. He knows the economy is his only hope of being reelected
Tue May 5, 2020, 10:09 PM
May 2020

And he is desperate to show it growing again, that's it.

Nature Man

(869 posts)
22. it wasn't his economy anyway
Wed May 6, 2020, 02:54 AM
May 2020

it was shit Obama did, all he did was muck it up, get some short term gains, and leave plenty of problems for the next Democratic president.

liberalmediaaddict

(766 posts)
17. He's going back to his original idea
Tue May 5, 2020, 10:57 PM
May 2020

To just let covid spread until it flames out or a vaccine is found.
Herd immunity won't work with the coronavirus. Just look at what happened in Great Britain.
Our only hope is that an effective treatment is approved.
I'm not even if the right wing covidiots would even agree to get vaccinated.

JCMach1

(27,553 posts)
25. Depending on the natural R0 it can take anywhere from 60-90%
Wed May 6, 2020, 03:07 AM
May 2020

To get immunity rolling. If it's at the higher end, our dead will number millions if there is no significant Vaccine, or prophylaxis

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
27. CDC says median Ro is 5.7, the CFR looks to be 5%. CFR of American Flu was 2.6. We're screwed if
Wed May 6, 2020, 04:09 AM
May 2020

... we can't get federated testing

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
26. ✨✨✨YES !!!✨✨✨ Watch American Experience Influenza 1918. He thinks he can do the same thing
Wed May 6, 2020, 04:03 AM
May 2020

... then than now but the CFR for CV19 is higher than the American Flu (since it began in the US not in Spain)

spinbaby

(15,086 posts)
30. He's trying to gaslight us
Wed May 6, 2020, 08:16 AM
May 2020

It’s over. It’s done. We’ve conquered the plague thanks to my fabulous leadership. Everyone go back to work rebuilding my wonderful economy.


Too bad you can’t gaslight a virus.

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