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The Hartmann Report

STALKING THE HUMAN RACE

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Climate Change, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Democracy, Debate, Economics, America, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dr. David Nabarro of the World Health Organization says that until a vaccine is developed, the corona virus will likely “stalk the human race“ for quite a while.

Because Trump utterly failed in keeping the virus away from the United States and refuses to fund and implement a nationwide testing and contract tracing program, simply slowing down hundreds of thousands of coming deaths may well be all we have left.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:19.0

Well, greetings my friends,

0:21.0

patriots, lovers of of democracy truth and justice

0:23.8

believers in peace freedom and the American way Tom Harbin here with you let's talk

0:30.0

seriously about exactly what the options are for our country or any

0:36.4

country when it comes to this coronavirus. Donald Trump has now said that if

0:41.7

governors have their states shut down he can force them to open.

0:45.3

He tweeted this, he said, for the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some of the fake

0:48.8

news media are saying that it's the governor's decision to open up the states, not the president of the United States.

0:55.0

He said, let it be fully understood that this is incorrect.

1:00.2

So Trump says he can reopen the country. What's that all about?

1:03.6

What's going on here?

1:04.7

What does this have to do with public health?

1:09.4

Let's be very clear.

1:11.3

There are basically three ways that a government can deal with this stuff.

1:17.0

The first is what the British Health Minister was advocating just a few weeks ago and what

1:26.7

Donald Trump has apparently been advocating inside the White House and that is

1:31.6

just let the virus burn through the population.

1:35.0

We talked about this on Friday, the whole herd immunity thing.

1:38.0

Let the virus just burn through the population,

1:41.0

kill off the old, the weak, the obese, the hypertensive, the heart patients,

1:46.4

kill them all off and then you've got a strong healthy and immune workforce and you can go back to work and you can compete against the rest of the planet.

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