Nobody is this stupid

[JAD]

With the success of other more civilized countries in testing and tracking the spread of COVID-19 in short order to protect the lives of their countrymen and women, one has to wonder why our Republican run government is deliberately, actively encouraging and allowing Americans to die. No one in their right mind would allow this to happen. No government could possibly be this stupid and irresponsible. The only logical conclusion is this is a concerted and deliberate act of mass murder. We should begin to frame this situation in those terms. Trump, McConnell and their goons were well aware of the consequences of this pandemic and continue to look the other way. There is no other explanation. They are simply evil. Hitler had gas chambers and ovens. Stalin had purges. Pol Pot had executions. Donald and Mitch have apparently found the perfect mechanism to indulge their darkest impulses. This is intentional.

[magicarpet]

1. This world has finite and limited natural resources,...

.. the super wealthy would like to see the population of the world shrink by 60% to 70%.

The super wealthy could then live quite comfortably with the un-extracted natural resources which remain here on planet earth.

You are expendable,... come to terms with that reality. Happy Covid 19 to you and yours.

[canetoad]

2. I can tell you why

American exceptionalism. No other country in the world has the *freedoms that the USA has.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. Shhhhh!

tRump hears something like that and he goes asking for someone to hold his beer!

[dchill]

4. Eliminating the competition. It's the Republican way.

"More for meeeeee!"

[rusty quoin]

5. It sure seems like it.

[not fooled]

6. I'm sure it's deliberate

especially once it became clear the virus would reduce proportionally more of the least desirable useless eaters, i.e. old people (expensive to keep alive anyway), people of color, and people with preexisting medical conditions. They don't in general vote republican, either.

It's clear with the push to get the peasantry out and about that they don't care about people or their health, or the medical workers who have to deal with all of this.

[NBachers]

7. trump & the pukes get the shiver-jollies out of inflicting mega-death, torture, agony, pain, & grief

trump and the republican party is a Death Cult.

[vlyons]

8. I'm not sure that it's deliberate

It seems to me to be more like depraved indifference. They just don't care what happens to us. They live in gated communities on gorgeous real estate with enough wealth to hire servants to do their bidding. What the don't realize is that someone has to pick that lettuce, and catch that lobster, and slaughter that beef, and drive that UPS truck, and deliver the mail, etc etc.

Pharoahs do not drag the stones of their own pyramids.

[EndlessWire]

17. I'm sure it's deliberate.

You can't have FEMA, a government agency under direction of Trump et al, confiscating legal shipments of PPEs which hospitals desperately need for their staff, and not realize that it is a deliberate act.

That's stealing. That's depraved indifference to the People. It certainly shows how Trump does not live up to his oath of office.

It is stunningly obvious that Trump and his family are seeking to control us through this plague fear. It's ugly, it's heinous, and I think it is a hangable offense. People better start thinking about their roles in this power struggle.

[lunatica]

9. Yes. They are that stupid.

Do you really think they’re not exposed to this virus? Jesus!

[Mister Ed]

10. They want herd immunity sooner instead of later.

The Great Pause gave the wealthiest enough time to retreat into their luxurious castles and pull up the drawbridge. They're safe for now, but they're inconvenienced. And they sure don't like the effect this sudden economic downturn has had on their portfolios.

Time to get the peasants back to work! Sure, they'll die by the millions in service to the elite, but that's what peasants are for! And the sooner the better, because once everyone else has either died or else survived the infection and gained immunity, then the lords are free to leave their castles and resume their lives of power and plunder.

[lunatica]

11. They are trying to get people to go back to work

so they can stay rich, but they didn’t cause the pandemic which is what the OP is saying.

[Mister Ed]

13. Ohhh. Now I getcha.

For sure you're right about that. They definitely didn't create the pandemic in the U.S. I thought the OP was just saying they're (mis)managing it for their own purposes.

[duforsure]

12. What now needs to be known for sure

Is Putin involved in this because trump is so compromised and in such huge debt to him he has to do this or else. Did Moscow Mitch get money from putin for this election?

[moondust]

14. Thinning the herd?

Back in the 60s-70s some hippies used to wonder if the war in Vietnam was really about reducing the "overpopulation" of baby boomers. No other compelling justification was ever offered for that war.

Today there may be some 1 percenters (like Dump) who feel there is an "overpopulation" of non-1 percenters that they wouldn't mind seeing "thinned," and arrogant enough (like Dump) to believe the "solution" won't reach them.

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In the most flagrant example of disregard for the rest of us, one company has installed private 'doomsday' bunkers in New Zealand with "luxury bathrooms, game rooms, shooting ranges, gyms, theaters and surgical beds."
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No, We're Not All in This Together. How the Super-Rich Are Cheating America.

Coincidentally, yesterday New Zealand announced it had "won the battle" against CV-19.

[jmg257]

15. Just who is their target? Anyone and everyone? Is the goal to reduce the taxpayer rolls?

Uh oh - Is Cuomo a suspect? NY has A LOT of cases.

[Skittles]

16. the "pro-life" party simply thinks certain segements of the population are expendable

they don't really care about anyone except the very wealthy who they know can protect themselves