Report: Trump Privately Asks Why Government Can't Just Let COVID 'Wash Over' The Country - 0 views
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The Washington Post reported on Saturday that during a Situation Room meeting on the pandemic in March, Trump asked White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci, “Why don’t we let this wash over the country?”
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Other unnamed officials said that Trump has “repeatedly” (in the Post’s words) asked the same question in the Oval Office.
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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
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