California official calls for reopening so coronavirus can kill off the old and the weak: ‘It would also free up housing’ – Raw Story

In the wake of a Facebook post where he suggested that society should allow people who are weak, elderly, or homeless to succumb to coronavirus, a California politician is on the receiving end of some serious blowback. In the April 23 post, Antioch planning commissioner chair Ken Turnage II said that coronavirus is like a forest fire that burns “old trees, fallen brush and scrub-shrub sucklings” that drain resources, adding that society will “strengthen” when the pandemic “is all settled.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/california-official-calls-for-reopening-so-coronavirus-can-kill-off-the-old-and-the-weak-it-would-also-free-up-housing/