Posted on 04/05/2020 12:25:20 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
Last week Doctor Anthony Fauci,the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, delivered a devastating blow to Americans.Following his advice will be far worse than what the Wuhan Virus could do to us.
In a Thursday interview Doctor Fauci said he would lift social distancing requirements(read the nation-wide economic shutdown) after “No new cases and no new deaths [are reported].”
This is a road to economic suicide which will do irreparable harm to us.Experience and common sense tell us that this crisis cannot be handled as an either-or choice to fix it; yet that is exactly how it is being portrayed by Doctor Fauci.
Of course, doing nothing and closing nothing; and keeping our economy open, would likely have killed many people by now. But whether the Doctor Faucis of the world want to acknowledge it or not, eventually people would stop dying from this virus.
Nevertheless,closing everything down and voluntarily committing economic suicide would eventually kill many many more people.The damage would continue for years.
Our leaders don’t yet have the courage to admit this, but we are in a period of national “lifeboat ethics,” where a few will/must die to protect the many.They can run away from the truth, but it will still be there when they peek out from under their desk.
President Donald Trump has characterized our counterattack on this “invisible enemy” as a war. Who could argue against that? Of course, this is a war, so let’s fight it like the war we won against highly visible enemies in World War II.
As we moved forward fighting against the Germans, Italians and the Japanese, we composed clearly stated and defined objectives in our pursuit of ultimate victory. As ruthless as we had to be to win, our requirement for declaring victory was never killing every German, Italian or Japanese. We had acceptable levels at which we would declare victory that were reasonably short of the total annihilation of those enemies.
One of the lesser understood reasons for adjusting our parameters of victory was the damage a continued war was doing to our economy. By April of 1945 when we stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima, our treasury was actually running out of money.
The only thing that kept us going in the Pacific theater was a War Bond selling tour by the three surviving members of the team that raised the flag in that famous picture.That brought in $14 Billion which reminds us just how desperate we were for money.
In very few aspects of our lives, either personal or public, do we have the luxury of demanding nothing less than 100% success before declaring victory.That’s not how the world works.This is why Doctor Fauci is so very wrong and so very dangerous.
Our government already accepts this principle and conducts itself according to it.Consider these potentially far more dangerous situations that the federal government allows less than 100% of a desired goal as acceptable.
There is nothing more essential than food.Since Sinclair Lewis exposed the filthy conditions in the slaughter houses that butcher and send meat to our tables, we have relied on the federal government to guard our food supply’s purity. We have to eat every day, but we can go days, months and forever without coming in contact with this virus or any other for that matter.Eating pure defect free food is far more of a concern than whether we will contract Wuhan Virus. Isn’t it?
So why does the same federal government that Doctor Fauci works for and represents have guidelines for “acceptable” levels of food contamination?
The Food and Drug Administration has guidelines that outline “acceptable” amounts of rodent poop – yes rodent poop - in certain foods (up to 10 milligrams per pound); and it allows a basic number of maggots in tomatoes among other regulations.
The FDA obviously recognizes how economically damaging it would be to demand 100% purity in food, which we must have each day, so how can Doctor Fauci demand a “100% All clear of Wuhan Virus” status before HE deigns to allow our economy to start up again? How the CDC sees the levels of other diseases casts a shadow on the supposed wisdom of Doctor Fuaci’s edict.
A recent CDC report acknowledged that we even have cases of Black Plague in our country. Where is the cry to shut down the economy over Black Plague? We have an acceptable level of Black Plague – admittedly a very very tiny problem – but since all or most people who have it will die and a very very small percentage of Wuhan Virus sufferers will die, where is the balance in public health policy?
The CDC says the top two causes of death in America are Heart disease: 647,457 and Cancer: 599,108.At the rate we are seeing Wuhan Virus deaths in America it would take more than 20 years to match one year of Heart attack deaths and more than 18 years to match cancer deaths. Where is the urgency to close our economy and keep it closed until there are no new cases of heart disease or cancer which are far more prevalent and deadly? The CDC seems rather comfortable with these far less alarming deaths, doesn’t it?
Final thought:
Does any over the age of twelve believe that if Doctor Fauci had his way and the federal government never stopped pumping money into the usual suspect states, we would ever get the “100% all clear” signal?
Does anyone believe that since all they had to do is lie to keep our American economy on the road to ruin, they would miss the opportunity?
Why not ban private automobiles, think of how many lives will be saved?
Makes about as much sense as shutting down everything and sheltering in place.
Unfortunately I think Democrat governors will continue on the shutdown path as long as they can to inflict maximum damage.
I expect this to backfire.
Dr. Death needs to retire
And somehow the FR “Trust Sessions” crowd has morphed into “Trust Fauci”. Even Trump’s trashing of Sessions trying to pretend he backs Trump for his new senate run doesn’t seem to have woken up such diehards.
A majority in this country have now been conditioned that every life must be saved, even if people were going to die anyway during a typical flu season or just life in general. Because of that, I don’t think we’ll get out of the shutdowns anytime soon, and I believe there will be even more serious economic damage to come. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has become a target for DC.
Thus Fauci is directly responsible for the current death count.
I fail to understand why he is still employed, he should be making protective masks in jail, if anything.
Dems want mail in voting, that way they can win all 50 states with MASSIVE voter fraud..they see this as the perfect opportunity to not only tank the economy so they can put in the communist vision they want, but also to win in November..imagine, massive voter fraud by mail, Trump wont stand a chance and that is what they are banking on
FSU I is a tv hog.
He surfaces for forty years now every time one of these diseases pops up.
He does not inform and he gives these ambiguous answers all the time, then changes when things don’t work out.
He quotes these stupid models that have no validity and no mathematical bases. They’re just guesses.
Bump
In a Thursday interview Doctor Fauci said he would lift social distancing requirements(read the nation-wide economic shutdown) after “No new cases and no new deaths [are reported].” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
F**K him! No body voted for him. He is a mere un-elected official. The People will decide how that will go.
Obama tells Fauci what to say. He’s on CNN everyday saying the opposite of what Trump says.
Cuomo is committing murder by fiat when he banned Hydroxychloroquine. He should be indicted.....This is what the Nazis did in WWII to get rid of undesirables.
Not FSU - Fauci.
Damn spell correct
I do too. The only hope for the Democrat party, especially if Joe Biden manages to become the 2020 presidential nominee, is to engineer an economic panic that produces another great depression. To the Deep State anything is worth it to finally get rid of Trump. I believe enough patriotic business leaders understand this and are quietly supporting President Trump's imminent course change.
I think you got it right the first time. ;)
here’s a report on the cases of various diseases of potential trouble tracked by a State Health Dept:
https://health.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2017-Annual-Report_Draft_V1.3_Combined.pdf
Seriously? Do they just arbitrarily plop a white hat on some entrenched bureaucrat and begin cheering? Fauci has been working in government x 50 years and he had one job; prepare for a breakaway pathogen/virus, and stop it. He's a colossal failure in every respect.
let’s hope this week ends fauci’s presence altogether
Politics: Present everything as if we only have two choices.
There is a 3rd option.
I’ve been saying it for some time now.
Use the same precautions we are using now but we all go back to work.
Somehow, we are able to go shopping at stores but unable to go to work?
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