California Pol Suggests Letting COVID Run Its Course In Order To “Reduce Burdens” On Housing, Social Security

The East Bay Times reports:

In a long post on Facebook, Antioch commission Chairman Ken Turnage II compared the spread of COVID-19 to a forest fire that burns off all the “old trees, fallen brush and scrub-shrub sucklings” that drain resources. The nation and planet “would strengthen when this is all settled,” he surmised.

“We would have significant loss of life, we would lose many elderly, that would reduce burdens in our defunct Social Security System, health care cost (once the wave subsided), make jobs available for others and it would also free up housing in which we are in dire need of,” Turnage wrote.

“We would lose a large portion of the people with immune and other health complications. I know it would be loved ones as well. But that would once again reduce our impact on medical, jobs, and housing.”

I can’t, I just cannot with these people.

California Official Says Society Should Allow The Coronavirus To Kill The Elderly, Sick, and Homeless So We Can Emerge Stronger.https://t.co/znU9mp9u9f

— Covie (@roper_93) April 30, 2020

Ken Turnage II says his Nazi revivalist “burn the weak” comments were misinterpreted and were “not malicious, or racist” and had “nothing to do with money or business.”https://t.co/A1s0p4WFoL

— Stuart Neilson (@StuartDNeilson) April 30, 2020

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