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Top 5 billionaires find that global pandemics are good for business – and their wallets

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Herd immunity = mutation = mass death = unlimited profits

Look at the Trump strategy, the one he got from the Fox News pundit Dr Atlas:

Spread it as widely as possible. Let everyone catch it, people die, the rest have herd immunity.

330 million US citizens, 1% death rate optimistically, that's 3.3 million dead. That's more than 12 Hiroshimas.

It's like Trump dropped 12 Hiroshimas sized nuclear weapons on 12 US cities and killed 12 times the death toll that those World War 2 nukes killed.

THAT'S NOT THE WORST CASE SCENARIO.

We have no herd immunity for the Flu. It spreads widely, it mutates often and new strains spread continuously. That flu-shot you get for the flu, that's the latest vaccines for last years strains of flu. It lags the Flu virus. It's out of date even as you're getting the injection.

If you attempt Herd immunity for Corona Virus, you will never have a vaccine and will never eradicate it.

The death toll will be ongoing, you will continuously be getting vaccine shots to protect you from the strains for which there is a vaccine and hoping you don't get the new strains.

The vaccine companies will love it, it gives them unlimited profits forever.

The Fed will print so much fooking funny money, they already struggle to find enough ways to give the money to billionaires, they've been giving out fake "loans" that don't need to be repaid, and Trump's economic advisor was proposing a "capital gains tax" holiday for rich people so they didn't have to pay tax on all the free printed money they are getting from Trump.

Not 12 Hiroshimas. He'll kill 12 Hiroshimas worth of Americans EACH YEAR.

Where exactly are you going to take care of the 15% of people who need hospital treatment to get the 1% death rate you are seeking? See Marseille here? It's hospitals are full already.

USA is screwed. 1% death toll is really optimistic if you overrun your hospital capacity.

Now we get the Red states, the Republicans, deliberately reducing testing in their states to make the number of daily cases lower. You have Trump saying "if you take out the blue states the numbers look great". So it's clearly the election plan there, reduce testing in red states, accuse blue states of failing, get re-elected on the back of the lie.

They don't care if their voters die, they don't care if Republicans in Republican states die. Just as long as they vote based on the lie, then die later, after the election.

By the time it becomes clear from the "excess deaths" numbers, the election will be past, and you can reveal you've sentenced X million to death. Ha ha, too late, they already voted.

Dr Atlas, turned out to be Dr Death, he didn't give you a roadmap, he's not even an immunologist or know anything, he was just a Fox News talking head, he wrote your death certificate and got handsomely paid to do so by the Hoover institute.

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