So, Trump continues to get his covid19 public health guidance from a guy who isn’t a public health expert and hasn’t actually been practicing medicine for a bunch of years. He’s a radiologist, not a epidemeologist or an infectious disease expert.

Atlas is the kind of bigot and know nothing Trump loves, because he’s telling Trump what he wants to hear, not what he must hear.

Atlas is still spewing nonsense about herd immunity, and right wing echo chamber continues insisting that Sweden is the model for this. It’s all junk science and woo.

Sweden has just gone into a lockdown mode admitting that herd immunity was a disaster and that the bodies are starting to pile up with no end in sight. They’re imposing criminal charges for violating public health orders on gathering sizes.

Trump hasn’t been at a covid task force meeting in months, but spends as much time as possible tweeting about how great a job he’s done while the body count just keeps rising. We’re now at the exponential growth stage where cases are going to absolutely wreck health care providers in many parts of the country, and there’s no backstop because capacity is maxed out in so many parts of the country.

This was avoidable with proper guidance from the feds on down. We could have avoided the worst of this with sensible leaders and guidance that would have slowed the spread and kept the outbreaks contained, especially during the summer. GOPers wasted months. They encouraged nonmasking and dangerous behaviors, and continue peddling that covid is a hoax, right up until these people get covid and have to get hooked up to a respirator and die. They’ll ignore the health experts that say mask and social distance. They’ll make terroristic threats against Democrats insisting on masking and social distancing mandates to keep all residents safe. This is what Trump has wrought.