Atlas Urges People To Spend Thanksgiving With Elderly Despite COVID Because They May Die Soon

Dr. Scott Atlas, member of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce, walks to the White House on October 12, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Dr. Scott Atlas, President Donald Trump’s favorite COVID-19 adviser who opposes lockdowns and often espouses Trump-friendly beliefs on the pandemic, made an eyebrow-raising suggestion on Monday night regarding family gatherings on Thanksgiving.

During an interview on Fox News, Atlas bashed the notion of staying away from elderly relatives during the holiday to protect them from the virus.

“This kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the elderly who are now being told don’t see your family at Thanksgiving,” the doctor told Fox News host Martha MacCallum. “For many people this is their final Thanksgiving, believe it or not. What are we doing here?”

He argued that “we want to protect the elderly, but we cannot lock down.”

Atlas’ comments clash with fellow White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci’s warning against large family gatherings involving relatives at higher risk of infection, which includes the elderly.

“I think people should be very careful and prudent about social gatherings, particularly when members of the family might be at a risk because of their age or their underlying condition,” Fauci told CBS News last month. “Namely, you may have to bite the bullet and sacrifice that social gathering unless you’re pretty certain that the people that you’re dealing with are not infected.”

Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidelines advise people to have a “small dinner with only people who live in your household” on Thanksgiving.

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  1. Remember death panels?

    Well, here they are.

  2. Axiom: every Trumpista accusation was (or is) an admission of guilt.

    And this motherfucker, utterly incompetent and unsuited for the task, has been empowered by Trump. So any deaths resulting from Atlas’s psychotic death-culting should be laid at Donald’s door.

  3. “If it’s not their last Thanksgiving, we’ll sure try to make it their last!”

    Scott Atlas

  4. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    I wish Dr. Atlas would “take one for the team” ASAP.

  5. Dang, you beat me to it!

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