Although they haven't yet publicly acknowledged it in such stark terms, it's clear now that the Trump administration has decided pursue a herd immunity strategy to deal with the coronavirus.

Trump's new White House advisor on coronavirus, Scott Atlas, has said it on numerous occasions in multiple venues, and now our Attorney General, Bill Barr, is trying to argue that lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus are as bad as slavery. Trying to achieve herd immunity in the United States against the coronavirus, assuming it's even possible, would involve between two and 6 million Americans dying.

And that's just the deaths. People who survive coronavirus often have heart damage, strokes, dementia, severe chronic fatigue, and long-lasting damage to other organs. With a herd immunity strategy, tens of millions of Americans will be suffering these consequences, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Quote: "It's going to disappear... It would go away without the vaccine... you'll develop herd -- like a herd mentality." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Adviser Scott Atlas Pushing For 'Herd Immunity' Strategy For COVID-19".

Article: "Trump's Bonkers Coronavirus 'Herd Mentality' Claim Lights Up Twitter" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Rachel Maddow does takedown of Trump's new COVID 'herd immunity expert' who wants to kill 6 million Americans" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Bill Barr compares national coronavirus lockdown to SLAVERY: AG says it is one of the 'greatest intrusions on civil liberties - as he calls for sedition charges for violent BLM protesters and Seattle's mayor to be prosecuted over CHOP" by AFP & AP.

Article: "Most Recovered COVID-19 Patients Left With Heart Damage, Study Shows" by Katherine Fung.

Article: "Trump promises permanent cut to payroll tax funding Social Security and Medicare if he's reelected" by Tony Romm.

Article: "Social Security could come to a screeching halt" by Nancy Altman.

Article: "How many times has President Donald Trump played golf while in office?" by Golf News Net.

Article: "Holocaust victims" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scott Atlas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump's 13 Biggest Business Failures" by Tessa Stuart.

Article: "US reinfection case raises question: how long does Covid immunity last?" by Jessica Glenza.

Article: "Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence" by Katie Benner.

Article: "Taiwan's COVID-19 Success Story Continues as Neighbors Fend Off New Outbreaks" by Nick Aspinwall.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November - but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS, SARS-CoV-1) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS, MERS-CoV)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ebola virus disease" (a viral haemorrhagic fever) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Even Trump's CDC Director Thinks Masks Might Be More Effective Than POTUS-Rushed Vaccine" by Summer Concepcion.

Article: "Trump says the House might decide the election in doomsday scenario" by Geoff Earle.

Article: "Leaked FEMA Memo Reveals 17 Percent Jump in U.S. COVID Deaths Last Week" by Jamie Ross.

Quote: "It's not just he counting of the ballots, which by the way, which will take forever it will take forever. You think November 3rd you might not have I guess at a certain point it goes to Congress. You know, at a certain point it goes to Congress you know that." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Trump campaign seeks to halt early vote counting while lawsuit against New Jersey is decided" by Matt Friedman.

Article: "Ex-DOJ official considers 'nightmare scenario' raised by Barr's threat against Seattle mayor" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Barr asked prosecutors to explore charging Seattle mayor over protest zone: report" by Rebecca Klar.

Article: "Plague of Justinian" (541-549) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black Death" (Bubonic plague, 1347-1351) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Plague of London" (Bubonic plague, 1665-1666) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Big Ten, Trump and the Pushback Against Chickification" by Rush Limbaugh.

Article: "The Multicultural Male Coalition That Could Give Trump Four More Years" by Alex Perez.

Article: "Like It Or Not, Return Of Big Ten Football A Win For Trump And Masculinity" by Jason King.

Article: "The NFL And Bumper Sticker Totalitarianism" by Matt Purple.

Site: Trump Death Clock.

"One Trick Phony!" Who Do we Trust a Scientific Expert Or a Guy Who Stared Into An Eclipse?!
- Brett Meiselas, co-founder of the Progressive Nex-gen SuperPAC - Meidas Touch, Midas Touch on Sirius XM - Progress (debuts this weekend!!)

Article: "SiriusXM Launches MeidasTouch Radio With Brothers Behind Viral Anti-Trump Ads (Exclusive)" by Ashley Cullins.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Video: Experts vs. Trump: Trump is a One Trick Phony.

Hour Two: What Does a "Herd Mentality" Economy Look Like?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Feudalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Renaissance" by Wikipedia.

Article: "reformation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CDC issues emergency order pushing mass evictions off until January" by Gabriel Black.

Book: Rage by Bob Woodward.

Quote: "Après moi, le déluge" - King Louis XV of France.

Article: "Impeachment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Stuck at 42% Job Approval" by Lydia Saad.

Article: "Some 42% Of Jobs Lost In Pandemic Are Gone For Good" by Kenneth Rapoza.

Article: "Civilian Conservation Corps" (CCC) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Works Progress Administration" (WPA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Green New Deal" (GND) by Wikipedia.

Article: "You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri..." by https://www.reddit.com/user/StyInYourEye/, originally.

Article: "International Democrat Union" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rachel Maddow's Math Is Wrong. It's Worse, MUCH Worse!!!" by GaryAD.

Article: "Trump says CDC Director Robert Redfield 'confused' about coronavirus vaccine, mask efficacy. Redfield responded." by Michael Collins and David Jackson.

Article: "Trump's Bedminster golf club charged taxpayers $1.1M for Secret Service even while closed during pandemic: report" by Barnini Chakraborty.

Article: "Trump adviser Scott Atlas denounced by former colleagues for 'misrepresentations of science'" by Cassidy Morrison.

Article: "Protests for St. Louis County youth sports continue" by Jim Salter.

Article: "Cultural Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter.

Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775-1783) by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Oh boy, she knows exactly what she's doing." - Cool Hand Luke.

Article: "Herd Immunity 'Definitely Not' Sweden's Goal for Coronavirus, Says Chief Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell" by Kashmira Gander.

Article: "Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris" by Lucy Osborne.

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the U.S. in April, report says" by Hannah Miao.

Article: "2020 California Proposition 15" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
- Sarah Kendzior Writer and scholar. Co-host of @gaslitnation / Author of 2 books...her first, The View From Flyover Country (2018) and her latest, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump & the Erosion of America (2020)

Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Edmund Burke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas Paine" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Book: "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. "And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

Article: "Constitution Day (United States)" (September 17, 1787) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vladimir Putin's Net Worth Is $200 Billion, According To Prominent Russian Finance Expert" by Brian Warner.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "If you want a preview of what four more years of Trump could bring, visit Hungary" by Thom Hartmann.

Science revolution: Time to End the Nuclear Hostage Crisis
- Dave Kraft, Founder & Director - Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) (safe energy, anti-nuclear advocate)

Article: "Report: Climate risks compound financial challenges for Midwest nuclear plants" by Kari Lydersen.

Article: "Nuclear operators face increasing climate risks, but resiliency investments mitigate impact" by Moody's.

Article: "With climate change, aging nuclear plants need closer scrutiny. Turkey Point shows why." by Caroline Reiser.

Article: "The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate" by Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran and Vanessa Williams.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner Bush"

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