Atlas has fashioned himself as the “anti-Dr. Fauci,”
Because of course. They define themselves by opposition. It’s all they know and have known for 40+ years. Name a GOP policy that wasn’t about reducing, removing or easing some existing legal structure vs improving or augmenting something.
Yeah, herd immunity has always been the plan because there was no plan.
Thanks to all the folks who just couldn’t vote for the email lady and the ones I saw in the news this morning who still think it’s a coin toss…
How soon before they just say, “ALL of the people would died from covid would have eventually died anyway. So we aren’t saving any lives, we’re just postponing death!”
Sounds like an SNL character but these days in Trump’s America there’s no parody.
Most responsible news/medical sites are using “excess mortality” numbers to get a handle on the real C19 toll. So this kind of parsing and sifting is on brand. Imagine these clowns at a plane crash investigation…no one would have died of the crash itself, they all had pre-existing conditions and simply all died at the same time in the same place.
It says something that I was some posts into the thread before I stopped seeing Scott Adams as the name. These assholes are really hard to tell apart. It’s almost like they all look the same!
I have heard that exact argument used in reference to the economy. Basically, they say we are ruining the economy in order to save people who’d die anyway, so why ruin the economy?
As fucked up as it sounds, this is at least a step up from where the administration had been by sole virtue of being at least some kind of plan. It’s a shitty plan that will likely result in the unnecessary deaths of millions, but at least it’s something other than just insisting it will disappear one day via magical thinking.
See what the economy does with the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of “long-haulers” and their ongoing medical requirements.
The thing most of the reporting is missing is that this is not just about death. There are long-term (possibly permanent) consequences to contracting this thing.
So true it hurts.