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At times throughout the spring, summer, and fall, Republicans pushed the idea that the only way to fight COVID-19 was to surrender. That is, to just let it infect Americans until the nation achieved “herd immunity.” The problems with this approach were … everything. First off, we still don’t know if mild or asymptomatic infection with COVID-19 provides long-lasting protection from the disease, meaning that herd immunity might not even be possible. Second, removing social distancing guidelines so that people would become infected more rapidly would result in massive overcrowding of hospitals across the nation, creating an epic health care collapse that drives the fatality rate of the disease through the roof. And finally, even trying for herd immunity on a nationwide basis would inevitably result in millions of deaths.
That didn’t stop even people who should know better from returning and returning to this idea under what seems to be a shared delusion that somehow it is possible infect tens of millions of people with coronavirus in a short time, while ignoring all the hospitalizations and deaths that cannot be avoided. The fact that this keeps coming up as a supposedly serious proposal is shocking.
But the fact that the man appointed as science adviser in Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services actively pushed for more Americans to be intentionally infected to bring on herd immunity … is not as shocking as it should be.
Little does he realize he will be answering for this in the not so distant future.
That didn’t stop even people who should know better from returning and returning to this idea under what seems to be a shared delusion that somehow it is possible infect tens of millions of people with coronavirus in a short time, while ignoring all the hospitalizations and deaths that cannot be avoided. The fact that this keeps coming up as a supposedly serious proposal is shocking.
But the fact that the man appointed as science adviser in Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services actively pushed for more Americans to be intentionally infected to bring on herd immunity … is not as shocking as it should be.
'We want them infected': Top HHS adviser schemed to spread COVID-19 across America
At times throughout the spring, summer, and fall, Republicans pushed the idea that the only way to fight COVID-19 was to surrender. That is, to just let it infect Americans until the nation achieved “herd immunity.” The problems with this approach...
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Little does he realize he will be answering for this in the not so distant future.
