Trump doubles down on his ownership of lockdowns, says 3 million would’ve died without his lockdown. And, “a lot of people say herd,” but herd is “no good”-Wall St. Journal Trump interview, June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” Wall St. Journal 

“Mr. Trump: “On coronavirus, I acted very quickly, and I acted early. And they can’t get over it. Number one. Number two. If I didn’t act, we would have had 3 million deaths....We’re doing very well on vaccine. We’re doing very well on therapeutic. But if I didn’t do what we did, we would have anywhere from 1.5 million to 3 million deaths.“… 

[“Yes, that’s called doubling down, and even owning the lockdowns. What about the data showing that the median infection fatality rate for people under 70 is 0.04%, and zero for children?” AIER, 6/19/20] 

(continuing, Trump): “We did the right thing. We closed it down. We closed it down. Expensive. But you can’t put a price on saving millions of lives. We saved millions of lives. You know, a lot of people say herd. Well how did herd work for Sweden? No good.. How did herd work for Brazil? No good.“…
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Added: “Herd" is "no good” says Trump?“ UK virus “expert,” Prof. Neil Ferguson, who urged US lockdown, believes in and practices herd immunity in his personal life:

BBC, 5/6/20: Ferguson explains why he allowed a friend to visit him during UK lockdown “while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing:” “I acted in the belief that I was immune having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms.”… 

BBC article acknowledges and comments on Prof. Ferguson’s stated belief that he was immune from catching Covid again: 

May 6, 2020, “Coronavirus: Prof Neil Ferguson [temporarily] quits government role after ‘undermining’ lockdown,” BBC 

“Despite Prof. Ferguson’s comments [that he had acquired immunity to the virus], it is currently unclear whether people who have recovered from the virus will be immune or able to catch it again.”…Prof. Ferguson is director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, a group which “advises governments” and the WHO.
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Added: Neil Ferguson has the greatest “immunity” on earth: He’s tops with the Queen. She was so impressed with Ferguson and his 2001 computer models that called for immediate slaughter of millions of healthy farm animals that in 2002 she awarded him with an OBE, Order of the British Empire...."Slaughters took place on 131,000 UK farms,” 4/13/2001…Ferguson’s urgent 2001 computer model predictions were sold in the same febrile atmosphere in which his 2020 “millions will die” predictions were sold. UK Telegraph, 3/28/20
 

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Above, 4/12/20, “The full horrifying scale of the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak told by the Welsh farmers in the middle of it,“ walesonline.co.uk, Anna Lewis
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Comment: As someone recently said, “This time we’re the cattle.”


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Above: June 3, 2019, Trump and his pal the Queen during dinner at Buckingham Palace, getty

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Above: Ivanka Trump at State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, London, Monday, June 3, 2019. (Photo via AP)

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Added: From “The Epidemiologists: Have they got scares for you:” “They had exhibited a mixture of incompetence, arrogance and complacency that seemed to typify all that was worst in the Great British Bureaucrat. They had veered wildly from suppressing evidence of real dangers to implementing senseless bans on such things as Roseclear and beef-on-the-bone.”…subhead, “Onset.” numberwatch.co.uk, 2004

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