Trump Appears To Surrender To Coronavirus Spread, Embraces Deadlier 'Herd' Strategy - TRMS - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Rachel Maddow looks at a shift in U.S. coronavirus strategy as Donald Trump finds the advice of Fox News talking head, radiologist Scott Atlas more in line with what he wants to hear after months of mismanaging containment of coronavirus. Aired on 09/02/2020.

[captain queeg]

1. Tells him what he wants to hear, there you have it. We are doomed

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Does this guy listen to no one and receive no news??

This was the tactic that failed miserably in Sweden!

[Eugene]

3. In Trump World, experience is just a word.

The worst Faux Noise hire yet. Thousands of people will die needlessly because of the snake oil salesman.

Trump has staked his presidency on the appearance of normalcy, and he is willing to sacrifice anybody besides himself to keep it..

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. The real problem is that these people do not fully

understand what is meant by herd immunity, and don't have a clue how that applies to Covid-19.

For Covid-19, because it is a novel virus, meaning no one on the planet had ever been exposed to it before, it's more like 90 percent or more of humans will have to be exposed and have immunity for a valid herd immunity to be effective. And at that rate we are going, that will be several years. Or more. If immunity really is short-lived, there will never be herd immunity. Which would mean this virus will simply circulate forever and ever.

Once all humans are dead, what next?

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5. Sanjay Gupta; Altas denies Herd Immunity but earlier clips confirm:

Sept. 1, 2020, New White House adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, radiologist is documented as pushing the controversial pandemic response, 'population immunity,' the same as 'herd immunity' although he denied this today.

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