Originally Posted by Matter-eater Man
White House denies Trump endorsed herd immunity

Just to clear up who the liars are WB. That would be trump.


You apparently lack reading comprehension skills to read and understand your own linked article. And in your partisan hate of Trump, you attempt to twist what it says in a narrow context, to allege it says the opposite of what it ACTUALLY says.


From your own article:

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Here is what Mr Trump said on Tuesday night at the Philadelphia town hall: “Sure, over a period of time. Sure, with time it goes away. And you'll develop – you'll develop herd – like a herd mentality. It's going to be – it's going to be herd-developed, and that's going to happen. That will all happen. But with a vaccine, I think it will go away very quickly.”

If you were talking about Sweden or Germany going for a herd immunity approach with a strategy of everyone in the country becoming infected without a vaccine in order to build herd immunity, that would be accurate. Those nations actually did publicly state that strategy.
But it is not accurate to say that Trump did that. Everything Trump said was first said, and said repeatedly, by Anthony Fauci and Jerome Adams, which you ignore. But from the very beginning, Trump's aggressive goal was to fast-track a vaccine, NOT to let the whole country get infected. You are deliberately fronting a false narrative. And that vaccine became ready 5 days after the Nov 3rd election, and probably weeks before, and only with-held for political reasons.



Regarding not wearing a mask, if you were not a lying partisan zealot trying to twist the truth, you might recall that both NIH director Anthony Fauci and also surgeon general Jerome Adams, BOTH mocked the notion of wearing a mask for at least the first 2 months of the Covid-19 outbreak. As have other medical experts ongoing, such as Alex Berenson of the New York Times, and Dr Scott Atlas, long before he was a member of the president's Covid-19 task force. As DOES SCIENCE reject wearing a mask as effective against Covid-19. Because a typical surgical mask has holes between its fibers that the virus can easily pass through. And even an N-95 mask which has fibers narrow enough to prevent the virus from passing through, is still not a guarantee of protection from infection. If a mask gets wet, then the fibers widen so it no longer gives protection from the virus. An N-95 might reduce the risk, but even that is questionable protection. Other masks offer NO credible protection.

So, once again, you're quoting Trump as saying something, deceitfully outside the context that all Trump's advisors and others in the medical community were saying the exact same thing.

And others such as Dr. Atlas, and honest journalists such as Alex Berenson (whom Amazon tried to block and prevent distribution of his book on Covid-19 that went against the Democrat narrative) have been saying consistently for the last year, while Anthony Fauci and Jerome Adams have been inconsistent and all over the place, and even admit they lied to the public so that regular citizens would not use PPE masks, so the short supply of masks would be available only for hospital staff. The admitted liars you believe, and then you call Trump a liar.

It's to be expected that the liars on your side would exalt the admitted liars like Fauci and Adams, and hold them up as truth-tellers, even as you hold up Trump's words as "lies", despite that Trump was only repeating THEIR rhetoric at the time Trump said it ! Because that fits your lying Bolshevik narrative.