It seems the well of horrifying things said behind the scenes in the Trump administration is far from running dry, with the latest revelations taking the banal form of an email. A former Department of Health and Human Services science advisor reportedly pushed the controversial “herd immunity” approach to the coronavirus pandemic (you know, the do-nothing non-strategy Sweden tried that turned out to be a terrible idea).
As Seth Meyers observed in Thursday night’s A Closer Look segment, the wording — which included the truly chilling phrase “we want them infected” — paints an even grimmer background to the White House’s lethal inaction. Read more…
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‘Real supervillain s**t’: Seth Meyers compares White House herd immunity emails to Bane
