How Many Deaths Are Necessary?

How many deaths are Trump and his Republican enablers (and the right wing "news" media) willing to accept to aid their reelection efforts?  Trump has nothing to run on except the success of Obama's economic record. He needs to somehow get the stock market and unemployment numbers to improve, so he isn't concerned over a million deaths if that what it takes.

Trump reportedly began mulling over the idea after hearing about the United Kingdom’s now-abandoned “mitigation” strategy that would let COVID-19 spread throughout the country with few movement restrictions imposed on the population in the hopes of building a “herd immunity” against the virus.

However, a study by medical advisers to the British government found in mid-March that the strategy would “likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths,” prompting the U.K. to drop the plan.

The same study also predicted that 1.1 to 1.2 million Americans would die if the strategy were adopted in the U.S.

The Trumpian example encourages other right wing nut jobs to propose the death of innocent people to insure their paychecks keep coming.  Take for example Mike Gundy, head football coach  at Oklahoma State University and proud right wing nut job.

Noted Expert Mike Gundy isn’t just talking the talk here. He is an omniscient observer with a plan. He wants to have his staff and support personnel, roughly 100 people, back to work in the Oklahoma State football facility May 1. Then the players after that.

He’s going back to work May 1, ready to take the rest of college football with him. Tell Fauci and other infectious disease nerds to take notes from a real expert. He’s a college football coach, after all, and with that job comes not only incredible wealth but also the fealty of everyone else in his orbit.

It can breed belief in a man that he knows everything about everything. It can send a man whistling past the graveyard, which in this instance is not a euphemism.

The cavalier willingness to accept the death of a massive number of Americans in support of Trump's reelection or to insure that unpaid college football players keep a coach's million dollar salary intact are what make Republicans so dangerous to the world.