Thursday, October 15, 2020

You have heard of herd immunity?

 


  It seems so long ago now, but, way back when this pandemic first exploded onto the world stage, the term 'Herd Immunity' was bandied about.  Sweden adopted it as their approach to dealing with Covid-19. But, it turns out that making a 'herd' become immune to the coronavirus has a major drawback:  it means that the death toll will spiral out of sight.

  'Herd Immunity' is the practice of simply letting a pandemic run wild in a particular population.  You drop all pretenses of being able to 'stop' it and just let it ramble through the entire population.  When it has run its course, there will be a substantial portion of the population that are now immune to the disease because they have developed the anti-bodies that fight it.

  That's all well and good.....except for the fact that a lot of people will NOT get better and have immunity because THEY'LL BE DEAD.  As we already clearly recognize, older people have weaker immune systems and often are unable to fight off the coronavirus....and become casualties of it. In a population as large as the U.S., i.e. over 330 million, you would need at least 70% to become infected, and the projected death toll could be in the neighborhood of SIX MILLION.   Ouch!

 So, knowing this is plenty enough reason to rule-out this approach to dealing with the pandemic. Isn't it?

  Well, no, because this has now become the Idiot's idea of how we'll proceed from this point forward....just as the so-called 'Second Wave' is coming crashing down on our country.  Any sane person--which, of course, rules out the Idiot--can plainly see that this is in the running for 'Worst Idea Ever'.  But, because he has completely botched handling the pandemic to this point, the Idiot has given-up on mounting any response at all in the waning days of his administration.  And, I say that with growing confidence that his cover has now been completely destroyed and far too many Americans understand that he's a danger to all of us, a psycho out of control and with increasingly bad intentions as he is rejected by a country that only a few months ago he thought he had firmly under his boot.

   When his niece, Mary Trump, says in her book about him, "Too Much, Never Enough", that he is 'dangerous', this is exactly the kind of danger she is referring to.  He makes rash and unthinking decisions that can have disastrous consequences.  If he even understands this, he does not care.  The deaths of even huge numbers of people is of no concern.  What he does care about is holding onto power and even becoming more powerful....like his despot buddies.  You know their names, but, Vladimir is the one he really wants to please. 

Herd Immunity is this man's plan now.
It could kill MILLIONS of us.

    He can rationalize just about anything if it means retaining power.  Millions of Americans dying would be a small price to pay for that.  And, besides, most of them would be old, or brown and probably poor, or quite likely all three.  These demographics are the ones doing most of the dying these days.  And, if you really have a clear understanding of who this man is, and the nature of his dysfunction, i.e. mental illness, you also realize that he doesn't care about anybody but himself.  If he was in a theater and somebody yelled, "Fire!", he would run roughshod right over even his own family to be the first one out of danger.  Oh, yes, he would.  In his feverish mind, only losers sacrifice themselves for the survival of others.  Which is, of course, where he got the idea that all soldiers, sailors and marines who died for our freedom.....are LOSERS and SUCKERS.  I mean, hey, what was in it for them, right?

  It is still amazing to me, but, this really is how the Idiot thinks.  

  So, here's where we are: we need to get this Idiot out of power.  He is a persistent and mortal danger to all of us.  And, there is NOTHING that he will not stoop to if it appears to have some chance of prolonging his tenure as 'the most powerful man on the planet'.  This is no joke; he really does think that 'Herd Immunity' is where we go from here and estimates of a sky-high death toll do not deter him even one tiny bit.

  What can we do?  We can VOTE.  Whatever it takes to be heard....and not become part of the HERD.

  

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