It's now semi-official. People within the Trump administration have laid it out: the actual coronavirus strategy of the federal government is now herd immunity.

That will require roughly 70% of America's 340 million people to become infected, a total of 238 million people.

All of them, from the elderly to newborns, at risk for the many side effects of this virus including dementia, strokes, heart damage, kidney damage and severe chronic fatigue.

The current case fatality rate for the United States - the percentage of people who die because they got the virus - is, according to Johns Hopkins, 2.7%.

If that percentage of Americans who are infected with the coronavirus die, that means a herd immunity strategy leads directly to 6.4 million dead Americans.

Read more here.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Successful GOP Repeal of ACA Would Strip Health Coverage From Millions and Give Top 0.1% a Massive Tax Cut - During a Pandemic" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Ireland votes by landslide to legalise abortion" by Henry McDonald, Emma Graham-Harrison and Sinead Baker.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Article: "Proposal to hasten herd immunity to the coronavirus grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists" by Joel Achenbach.

Article: "HHS Secretary Alex Azar Once Doubled The Price of Insulin" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "Minnesota connects two dozen coronavirus cases with campaign events, most of them visits by Trump." by Neil Vigdor.

Article: "Minnesota traces 22 coronavirus cases to Trump campaign rallies, another 2 to Biden events" by Kathryn Krawczyk.

Article: "Tulsa coronavirus spike after Trump rally 'likely' linked: official" by AFP.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What are the long-term health consequences of COVID-19?" by A. Pawlowski.

Article: "Mortality Analyses" by JHU.

Article: "First Confirmed U.S. Cases of COVID Reinfections" by Brenda Goodman.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "It's Time to Unpack the Court" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trayvon Martin Shooting Fast Facts" by CNN.

Article: "Trump campaigns where Trayvon Martin died".

Article: "Juneteenth" (June 19, 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump makes a rare retreat by rescheduling Juneteenth rally in Tulsa" by Maeve Reston.

Transcript: "Sheldon Whitehouse at Senate nomination hearing for Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court - 13 October '20".

Video: "MONEY AND BIAS" Sheldon Whitehouse ASKS NO QUESTIONS Of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

Case: "Janus v. AFSCME".

Article: "Trump keeps telling people to vote twice, even though that's a crime" by Cameron Peters.

Case: "Smith v. Illinois Secretary of State".

Article: "Texas voters will have only 1 ballot drop-off box per county, federal appeals court rules" by Alison Medley.

Article: "Florida, Georgia, and Texas Among States Experiencing Issues With Early Voting" by Alex Galbraith.

Article: "Texas voters will have only 1 ballot drop-off box per county, federal appeals court rules" by Alison Medley.

Case: "Smith v. Illinois Department of Transportation, No. 18-2948 (7th Cir. 2019)".

Article: "Myra C. Selby" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation Hearing: Day 2 Highlights" by Margaret Hartmann.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing: Cases to know" by Tyler Olson.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Article: "Citizens United - Opinion of Stevens, J." (dissent).

Article: "Opus Dei" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Griswold v. Connecticut", 1965.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review)

Article: "McConnell, Republicans Split with Trump, Say the Election Can't Be Delayed" by Ramsey Touchberry.

Article: "Virginia Online Registration Portal Left Unworkable - Just Hours Before Deadline - After Cable 'Accidentally Cut'" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Federal judge extends Virginia voter registration deadline" by AP.

Article: "The story behind Amy Coney Barrett's little-known Catholic group People of Praise" by Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer.

Article: "How Charismatic Catholic Groups Like Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise Inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale'" by Khaleda Rahman.

Book: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman.

Article: "Democrats got millions more votes - so how did Republicans win the Senate?" by Sabrina Siddiqui.

Bible: "Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. - Luke 23:34.

Article: "Exclusive: America's true unemployment rate" by Felix Salmon.

Article: "Federalist Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Originalism" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay.

Article: "Federalist 81: The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Article: "16th Amendment. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

Article: "The Gettysburg Address" by President Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863.

Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).

Article: "Carpetbagger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is Rupert Murdoch's Ex A Chinese Spy?" by James Warren.

Article: "James Murdoch resigns from News Corp. board over ‘disagreements' about editorial content" by Jeremy Barr.

Article: "The President's Taxes: Long-concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses And Years Of Tax Avoidance" by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire.

Article: "The Supreme Court's enigmatic “shadow docket,” explained" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Blumenthal v. Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Blumenthal v. Trump" by Jonathan H. Adler.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett's Answer on This Climate Change Question Is Completely Disqualifying. She Will Be Confirmed." by Jack Holmes.

Site: I Will Vote.

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