Over the past few days Trump and some of his lesser intelligent staff members at the White House have been touting “herd immunity” as the answer to Covid-19. I should remind you that every solution presented by Trump and his lesser intelligent staff members at the White House have 1. quickly been proven as false information by the science community and 2. never worked. (Which leaves one to wonder why anyone with half a brain would either try what they recommend or pass it on to friends and loved ones as good information.)
So, let’s stop here for a moment as I would encourage all those who do support Trump’s claims for herd immunity to stop reading this blog post, go to the internet and look up three sources of information on herd immunity. Otherwise, your ability to comprehend this post, written at a third grade reading level (the reading level this writer) will be too much for you.
The next question is why would Trump push information that is blatantly false and would end up getting hundreds of thousands of people infected?
Is he desperately grasping at straws as the election moves closer and everyone clearly sees he did practically nothing to protect the country? Maybe, I guess one could argue he’s making suggestions as if he is in a brain storming session and just throwing out everything he can think of (well, he’s really not coming up with these suggestions anyway) hoping something will work. Frankly, that’s giving him too much credit.
Is he hoping that voter turn out will be suppressed by hundreds of thousands of new infections? Maybe, but that will backfire in his face because most moderates and Democrats wear masks and otherwise try to comply with CDC recommendations so it’s only his core, Qanon followers, and other mental incompetents that will get sick.
Is he trying to make the general population as cash strapped and in debt as he is by exposing it to massive amounts of uninsured medical bills and budget crushing prescription costs (think of all his attacks on the Affordable Care Act)? That’s rather sinister but a likely result. But, then again which segment of the population would suffer the most? (See paragraph above.)
Is he trying to weaken the population so it can’t defend itself from a foreign invasion? Highly unlikely. Not a very good military strategy.
Is he trying to weaken Democrats and moderates so they can’t physically remove him from office should he decide not to accept the election results and turn his “Proud Boys” loose on the American public? Again, really not a good strategy because it is clear he’ll be removed by Federal Marshalls and see three paragraphs above.
Well, I’m at a loss. I can’t really say why Trump would ever continue to press a health strategy that, well, isn’t a health strategy at all.
Kevin Driscoll 