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Ken Turnage, a member of the city planning commission in Antioch, said in a now-deleted April 23 Facebook post that coronavirus lockdowns should be lifted to “let nature take its course.â€â€œWe 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 47, wrote, according to the East Bay Times.In another excerpt reported by SFGate.com, Turnage said the natural spread of COVID-19 would also cull the “herd†of other people he considered undesirable.“Then we have our other sectors such as our homeless and other people who just defile themselves by either choice or mental issues,†he wrote. “This would run rampant through them and yes I am sorry but this would fix what is a significant burden on our Society and resources that can be used.â€
