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DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 06:43 PM Oct 2020

The only thing I want Biden to talk about is herd immunity.

Trump's complete abdication of duty/responsibility is the issue. It is life and death. Trump's plan requires that 60% of the U.S. population get the virus. Someone please do the math and tell me how many Americans will need to get sick. Seems like about 200 million.

TRUMP - COMPLETE ABDICATION OF RESPONSIBILITY.

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The only thing I want Biden to talk about is herd immunity. (Original Post) DURHAM D Oct 2020 OP
The town hall format is intended for audience members to ask him questions, The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2020 #1
I hope they ask about social security!!! SheltieLover Oct 2020 #2
With the success of Trump's herd immunity plan we DURHAM D Oct 2020 #4
Culling the herd SheltieLover Oct 2020 #5
He's thinning the herd, not immunizing it. Deb Oct 2020 #3
I voted today! SheltieLover Oct 2020 #6
! Be the wave ! Deb Oct 2020 #8
Absolutely! SheltieLover Oct 2020 #9
It needs to be social security, health care and climate change Awsi Dooger Oct 2020 #7
WRONG. Herd immunity requires long term immunity, no evidence it'll work for COVID19. Pobeka Oct 2020 #10
Good lord. DURHAM D Oct 2020 #11
I realize "WRONG" could be taken as *you*, I meant it as the herd immunity concept. Pobeka Oct 2020 #12

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,858 posts)
1. The town hall format is intended for audience members to ask him questions,
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 06:44 PM
Oct 2020

so we'll have to hope someone asks him about that so he can talk about it.

DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)
4. With the success of Trump's herd immunity plan we
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 06:50 PM
Oct 2020

will no longer need to worry about the viability of SS, almost all of the old people will be dead.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
7. It needs to be social security, health care and climate change
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 07:03 PM
Oct 2020

Biden trails 61-39 among seniors in Texas. That obviously means not enough of them understand the social security ramifications of Trump eliminating the payroll tax

Health care is obvious

Climate change to motivate the youth vote. They have not been turning out in early voting

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
10. WRONG. Herd immunity requires long term immunity, no evidence it'll work for COVID19.
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 07:35 PM
Oct 2020

None, not a dime of evidence long term immunity is achievable for the vast majority of the population with normal infection from COVID19.

You could kill millions of people in the USA alone and get nothing for it.

DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)
11. Good lord.
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 07:41 PM
Oct 2020

That is my point. Trump is killing everyone. That is what Biden needs to be talking about.

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
12. I realize "WRONG" could be taken as *you*, I meant it as the herd immunity concept.
Thu Oct 15, 2020, 08:06 PM
Oct 2020

Hope you didn't take it the wrong way, and sorry if you did.

But yeah, Biden needs to point out the flaw in the herd immunity approach, starting with the best case scenario and how many will have to die or have permanent critical health problems, and the worst case where the same number of people die and have lifetime health problems and we get no herd immunity.

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