Trump admitted his coronavirus plan is to let millions die to achieve herd immunity

Recent Trump appearances have revealed that his giving lip service to vaccines has remained secondary to a continuing belief in herd immunity as if death would be a luck of the draw, or just bad luck, perhaps sacrifices rationalized by some religion.

The vaccine is a panacea in terms of any pre-November announcement as we now know it cannot be publicly available until a year from now. This explains Trump’s filibustering during his presser Wednesday after the announcement of the CDC director of the real nature of vaccine availability.

The Trump math is about trying to cheat his way past 3 November with a win by any means necessary. Soon there will be a quarter-million deaths of people Trump would refer to as “losers and suckers”. Woodward’s book shows that Trump accepted the likelihood of a plague-like death toll and his “reducing panic” excuses were a lie, much like his efforts were only meant to last until election day.

2+ million deaths are acceptable to him, as Bob Woodward has observed that Trump does not care about COVID deaths. And if you don’t like it, as with all things Trump, it devolves to lawfare. And asymptomatic spread of the disease makes it all too complicated for Trump as well as all that litigation when contact tracing is poorly executed and needless deaths escalate.

The brutal reality is that more like 6 million deaths might be required to attain herd immunity and initial evidence shows that such immunity might not even be possible as other pandemics have demonstrated.

Trump: You’ll develop like a herd mentality pic.twitter.com/8kTQvUbfoJ— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 16, 2020

This is the key point. Everyone on Twitter is mocking Trump's misstatement (“herd mentality” v “herd immunity”). That's a goof.

But if Trump's strategy is to simply let the virus “run its course,” that could mean 2m deaths in the next 12 months. That's the real headline. https://t.co/RxeTWUMDfl

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) September 16, 2020

“Herd mentality” = what Trump hopes for in November.

“Herd immunity” = >1 million Americans dead, millions more hospitalized.

Don't be his dupe for either one. He's not worth dying for.

— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) September 16, 2020

There are approximately 328.2 million people in the US.

To get to the low end of herd immunity, about 60% of the population must catch Covid.

That's about 196,920,000 cases.

The current US death rate is about 2.96%.

So that's 5,836,679 deaths necessary for herd immunity.

— Kyle Feldscher (@Kyle_Feldscher) September 16, 2020

Left: The president on Tuesday
Right: The director of the CDC on Wednesday pic.twitter.com/2Iel1q1oza

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2020

By ambush they mean the President had to answer questions. https://t.co/lhAedRCLkK

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) September 16, 2020

We didn't start the liar… pic.twitter.com/rgUtGp3iKv

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) September 16, 2020

Churchill and Trump

Defending his decision to conceal the severity of the virus from the American public, Trump again invoked the late UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill — saying Churchill was “not so honest” when he stood on London rooftops during Nazi bombings and told the public “everything's going to be good,” but that he was still a “great leader” by keeping people calm.

Facts First: Churchill did not give speeches from the rooftops, though he sometimes did watch the bombing from rooftops, and did not say “everything's going to be good” or generally play down the Nazi threat. Rather — as Churchill scholars have told CNN — he was generally blunt about the threat of death and severe suffering, warning citizens repeatedly about hardships to come.

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Trump made more than 20 false or misleading claims at his ABC town hall last night. A still-not-complete breakdown: https://t.co/g1j7VaoBi9

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2020

Health care

Pre-existing conditions

Trump claimed that he would be “doing a health care plan” that would “protect people with pre-existing conditions.” He then said of the Democrats, “They will not do that.”

Facts First: This is a complete reversal of reality. Democrats created these protections for people with pre-existing conditions, in Obamacare; Biden was vice president at the time, and he is running on a promise to preserve and strengthen the law. Trump, conversely, has repeatedly tried to get bills passed that would have weakened the protections — and, as Stephanopoulos pointed out, is currently in court trying to get the entirety of Obamacare overturned.

Trump insisted to Stephanopoulos that he would put forward a “new health care” plan that would protect people. But he has never unveiled any plan that would offer protections equivalent to the ones in Obamacare — and, regardless, his claim about Democrats is absurd.

The existence of Obamacare

Trump claimed he “essentially ended Obamacare” by repealing the individual mandate that required people to obtain health insurance.

Facts First: The individual mandate, which required Americans to obtain health insurance, was indeed a key part of Obamacare — but Trump didn't end Obamacare, essentially or otherwise; key parts of the law remain in effect. For example, Trump has not eliminated Obamacare's expansion of the Medicaid insurance program for low-income people, the federal and state marketplaces that allow people to shop for coverage, or the consumer subsidies that help many of them make the purchases.

Biden's health care plan

Trump suggested that Biden has agreed to adopt the “socialized” health care advocated by Sen. Bernie Sanders: “He (Biden) agreed to the manifesto, as I call it — the agreement with Bernie is that you're going to go to socialized medicine.”

Facts First: This is misleading. While “socialized” is a vague term, and while Biden does endorse a “public option” to allow people to opt in to a Medicare-like government insurance plan, Biden has not agreed to anything like the “Medicare for All” single-payer proposal Sanders is known for, which would eliminate most private insurance plans. Biden and Sanders clashed on the issue during the Democratic primary.

After Sanders dropped out of the race, Biden and Sanders appointed a task force to make policy recommendations; this is what Trump calls “the manifesto.” The task force proposed to try to achieve universal health care through the public option Biden was already running on; it did not endorse any Sanders-style single-payer plan. It says: “Everyone will be eligible to choose the public option or another Affordable Care Act marketplace plan, even those who currently get insurance through their employers, because Democrats believe working people shouldn't be locked in to expensive or insufficient health care plans when better options are available.”

Holy fucking shit @realDonaldTrump, you’re the President you moron. https://t.co/V3l4WvDX2w

— David ex Trump voter for Biden Weissman (@davidmweissman) September 16, 2020

This moment. pic.twitter.com/lCs6ZT73IB

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 16, 2020

During the debates, networks need to have @ddale8 in a small box in the corner of the screen with signs that say “truth” and “lie” and he just flashes one for everything the candidates say.

— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) September 16, 2020

‘Screaming matches’ erupted in the Trump administration as HHS sought to override FDA on COVID tests: report https://t.co/IRIUDt8urH

— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 16, 2020

Donald Trump has been politicising the drug-approval process. The move from nine global drugmakers is a rebuke to the president https://t.co/2ZcBAzG4IG

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 16, 2020

TRUMP ON 8/5: “Children are…almost immune from this disease.”

REALITY: Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in children are skyrocketing in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/zgnpraO227

— CAP Action (@CAPAction) September 15, 2020

TRUMP: It is going away

STEPHANOPOULOS: Without a vaccine?

TRUMP: Sure. Over a period of time

S: And many deaths

TRUMP: It's gonna be herd developed pic.twitter.com/dtJRE7XwFX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

One million views! Thank you for retweeting and not letting Trump hide from the truth. We will be running this ad in North Carolina and Nevada. Keep sharing! #TrumpLied200KDied pic.twitter.com/RdwHr0qvee

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 16, 2020

These are the words of a sociopath 👇

“If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at, we’re really at a very low level.”#TrumpDeathToll200K https://t.co/XR5fgwMXKw

— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) September 17, 2020

RETWEET to expose how #TrumpWantsToInfectUs pic.twitter.com/ca7oiKodmS

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) September 17, 2020

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