Trump’s new Covid-19 adviser responds to critics

Dr. Scott Atlas, a new adviser to President Trump on coronavirus, speaks to CNN's Michael Smerconish about critics who question his stance on herd immunity and suggest that he is not qualified to advise on pandemic strategy since he is not an epidemiologist. #CNN #News

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  1. Why is this man telling us he is an expert? Bring back Dr. Fauchi. He tells the truth. I believe nothing coming out of the White House. Unacceptable: nearly 1 million deaths. Unacceptable. And he can’t walk it back. We’re grieving.

    1. I agree with everything you typed in your comments. I’m in the high risk category and I truly believe if they try this insane idea that eventually I will either die or have my life shortened by this disease.

    2. @Keith Etherington
      Hi Keith, I think those of us at higher risk must double down on our ability to monitor all the protocols (mask, sanitize, physical distance) as we negotiate this covid lifestyle. 4/10 people regardless of age can be asymptotic and positive at the same time to spread the virus. So we can’t let our guard down.
      What matters is how we handle it. And I first monitor my thoughts to avoid fearful statements because I need to avoid negative thoughts that pull me down. So rather than dwelling on how there is not concise direction from the government during this pandemic which could shorten my life, I’ve taken full responsibility to monitor my habits and associations by turning thoughts into positive statements.
      Yes we’ll (high risk) be locked down for another 6-10 months without a safe, effective FDA approved vaccine but at least we know where we stand. Please know you are not alone! We’re all in this together. By golly, I am learning how to Zoom on Friday because I live alone and I know I am too isolated for my own good. So I must reach out and learn a new way to manage. Also, knowing this will be with us for some time, challenges us to be creative with what we do to be sure our needs are met. That builds resilience.
      Stronger together 😷👍

    3. Dr. Fauci said during a forum at Georgetown University, back on Jan. 11th 2017, that “” There is no doubt that Donald J Trump will be confronted with a surprise infectious disease outbreak during his presidency”. Ask him how he knew that???

    1. Dave Waldon : You May have had it, or someone you know has had it, because 40% of people are asymptomatic. I had a mild form of the virus. It was 10 days of fever, chills body aches, and laboured breathing at times. I was lucky. My sister also got Covid. She spent 11 weeks in the hospital, 8 trips to the ICU and I nearly lost her four times. Now she is at home, still recovering. Doctors say she will always have issues with her breathing. You don’t want to have this. You don’t want to have a family member get it.

      Stay safe, stay sane, be well

    2. I too responded to this bot (Dave Walden) in another thread. It’s just a copy paste account. All messages say the same thing. Must be the campaign “death star” at work, hahahaha. Oh, Parscale. I love you for ripping off the trumps.

    3. @Eric Petosky that guy has been posting the same nonsense for weeks, one of them was on a herman Caine video about his death.

    1. @Grim Reefer Yep, its called Windows Subsystem for Linux . I was always a apple guy but decided to give windows a try again after windows 10. It doesn’t disappoint. I’m more familiar with Unix based systems then I am windows command line so it helps a lot when setting up local servers on your computer to develop with.

  2. I am a physician. This guy is condescending, pretentious and rude. Also, “herd” or “population” immunity requires first that there is a PROOF that COVID-19 infections lead to permanent immunity. Also, the notion that there are expendable members in the society is awful.

    1. @SteelCurt you should see the response to my name when I comment in Tyt. You could water your crop with the amount of tears shed.

    2. Those “expendable” members are POC, doctor. Once Individual 1 became convinced only people with health issues and POC are negativity affected (untrue), he and his sycophants started on a rampage. Reminds me of Hitler’s beliefs. All of these guys are despicable imo.

  3. This guy’s a monster friend of Donnie’s. He lies, and twists his lies, right here in this interview. Lies, lies, lies.

    1. Whatever idiots.. trump at least makes america great.. keep working for the people.. dems break it down and being anarchist.

    1. @Joy Phillips Obama said in his DNC speech that the constitution doesn’t matter and can be changed to whatever we want. This is really wrong, because he took an Oath to uphold the contitution, and not change it.

    2. At this point, they both have about the same amount of credibility 😆 doctors have lied or been wrong about every God dam step of the way so far.

    3. Alison Holland Fake news Totally Debunked, only fake, phoney and false ‘Anonymous Sources’! EXPOSED!🙈 Leftism is a religion of selfhate and lies 🐽 Democrats Created The KKK And Fought For Slavery in America! Democrats Blocked The American Civil Rights Act To Keep Blacks From Voting! Democrats Are Demanding Money When Blacks Created Slavery in America?
      Jeffrey Goldstein🐽 and his totally fake “four sources” claim in fake NYT, Trump’s helicopter flight to the US/French cemetery 🤣wasn’t cancelled due to weather. FOIA docs, Bolton, all officials prove this 🐽to be false. Their “sources” are failing basic fact checks – making them essentially worthless. Of course, all opinions of the fake news CNN, MSNBC, Atlantic, WashCompost etc. and their arrogant, (pre)possessed, godless, marxist leftist activists are worthless. And destructive for the USA. MAGA 2020-24 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️✝️

    4. @Drew Carter tjat isn’t true, the cdc have been right about everything, they just are late. You should blame the lack of any science education or critical thinking skills for Americans to parse any if it.

    1. Question to Dr Faucci,

      Both Sweden and Belgium have the same population. While Belgium followed Faucci social distance Sweden didn’t, but Belgium have death double of Sweden.

    2. Sparky Sparky only 6% of the deaths in 9/11 were directly from the planes making impact the others were from smoke, fire, and gravity, but the planes still caused those.

      Those people still died from Covid, they weren’t perfectly fine then the dr came in and killed them.

    3. @Kash Zombi3 6% of the deaths were do to coronavirus. Of the other 94% of course some of them have something to do with coronavirus, the question is nobody knows what the amount or the number really is. Remember 99% of people live through it.

    1. Fake news Totally Debunked, only fake, phoney and false ‘Anonymous Sources’! EXPOSED!🙈 Leftism is a religion of selfhate and lies 🐽 Democrats Created The KKK And Fought For Slavery in America! Democrats Blocked The American Civil Rights Act To Keep Blacks From Voting! Democrats Are Demanding Money When Blacks Created Slavery in America?
      Jeffrey Goldstein🐽 and his totally fake “four sources” claim in fake NYT, Trump’s helicopter flight to the US/French cemetery 🤣wasn’t cancelled due to weather. FOIA docs, Bolton, all officials prove this 🐽to be false. Their “sources” are failing basic fact checks – making them essentially worthless. Of course, all opinions of the fake news CNN, MSNBC, Atlantic, WashCompost etc. and their arrogant, (pre)possessed, godless, marxist leftist activists are worthless. And destructive for the USA. MAGA 2020-24 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️✝️

    2. He makes nore sense than pelosi, biden , shiff , nadler etc.. that says a lot.. hahahahahahahah trump replay of 2016, Trump 2020 MAGA

    3. Pejotade Fotografia Amen! After having botched the entire news coverage of the 2016 election, where all the “experts” repeatedly told the American public that Donald Trump had little to no chance of being the Republican nominee and even less a chance of being elected president, corporate media are back at it again, insisting all is well with the Biden campaign and the Democrats are safely on cruise control to take the White House and the Senate. Here’s the truth they are not telling you. Biden has little enthusiasm for his candidacy. He is taking on an incumbent president with significant first-term accomplishments who has extremely energized supporters, to put it mildly. He had two major opportunities in August to generate some real excitement for his ticket and collect voters in must-win states for Democrats who had abandoned the ticket for Trump in 2016. Think Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

    4. @Downright Dutch Biden will step down if and or when he wins POTUS. Harris takes over by default ensuring that the goals of BLM groups are met with the fullest extent of the law. She said it herself, the violence will and should continue. Like her ancestors before her ,does she intend to start slicing the sex parts off children in the UNITED STATES as part of her law? Sounds as stupid as the crap BLM is pushing.

  4. @ in: He actually said “they are working their tails off trying to help the president” I hope y’all caught that as well.

  5. He could barely answer the questions and spent most of the time attacking the media.. in typical trumpian fashion

    1. Mr. Precedent Exactly. Trump is only concerned with his ego, certainly not the well-being of the American people

  6. When a Layman asks sensible questions and the Expert responds with stupidity. Right here folks, I’m tired of winning.

  7. This “Doctor” needs to stop talking and should not be speaking on TV. Atlas take your own advice. Don’t talk, and don’t speak on TV or any public forum. Go home, isolate and stay there.

    1. It’s time for someone to take the high ground and tell people to STOP LISTENING TO THE HYPE AND LIES that are spreading by those whose main objective is to make as much misinformation spread to as many as possible in order to cause the CAOS they crave.

  8. “I don’t advocate for herd immunity.” Goes on to spend the rest of his time advocating for herd immunity.

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