Posted on 04/02/2020 5:43:10 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Funny, I don’t remember Dr. Anthony Fauci’s name being on the November, 2016 ballot. – The updates from the White House Coronavirus Task Force have become a daily exercise in subliminal messaging for those who are paying close attention. Which, unfortunately, excludes the dimwitted members of the White House press corps. But I digress.
Let’s look at yesterday’s press conference. Even though he only came into the event for its second half, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, seems to be running our entire country right now. His remarks at this update made it very clear that he wants to run the country for another 12 to 18 months.
If you were paying attention to what he actually said during this presser, he told you that pretty clearly:
After US Health Secretary Alex Azar said a coronavirus vaccine candidate had been developed in three days, with a clinical trial already in the works, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases advisor to the White House, sought to temper his enthusiasm.
Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said that the earliest the US could possibly get a vaccine would be in 12 or even 18 months — “at least.”
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Now, that was a startling statement given that it came in the context of his answer to a question from a reporter about when we could expect our intentionally depressed business community to be able to restart and return to something resembling normalcy. Fauci made it very clear that he views this additional month of everyone staying at home and millions losing their livelihoods as just a starting point for his strategy for fighting this Wuhan Virus.
Meanwhile, President Trump, who has thus far seen fit to defer to Fauci’s judgment, continues to send a conflicting message: That once April is over, he is going to start working to get people back to work. Where Fauci obviously wants to keep everyone locked in their homes well into 2021, the President is obviously thinking that, once we get over the hump of this viral “curve,” people will be able to get back to work and their kids back to school, even if they have to go to those places wearing face masks and gloves.
What this means is that, at some point around mid-April, the President and Fauci are likely to end up in a major confrontation, out of which a unified strategy will emerge. If Fauci really thinks he’s been appointed by anyone to run our entire country for 18 months, he has a big surprise coming his way soon.
And let’s never forget that Dr. Fauci is the guy who wrote not one, but two love letters to Hillary Rodham Clinton a few years ago:
Subject: Fw: Remarks of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton At “A World in Transition: Charting a New Path in Global Health”
From: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] [mailto:AFAUCI@niaid.nih.gov]
Saturday, June 02, 2012 05:28 PM
Sent: To: Mills, Cheryl D; Quam, Lois E
Subject: Remarks of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton At “A World in Transition: Charting a New Path in Global Health”
Cheryl/Lois: Wow! Very rarely does a speech bring me to tears, but this one did it. Talk about telling it like it is. This was a bases- loaded home run.
Please tell the Secretary that I love her more than ever you guys too, of course.
Best regards, Tony
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 31, Room 7A-03 31 Center Drive, MSC 2520
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-2520
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And this following the Fainting Felon’s despicably dishonest Benghazi testimony:
Subject: FW: Today’s performance From your doctor admirer
From: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] [mailto:AFAUCI@niaid.nih.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:10 PM
To: Mills, Cheryl D
Subject: Today’s performance
Cheryl: Anyone who had any doubts about the Secretary’s stamina and capability following her illness had those doubts washed away by today’s performance before the Senate and the House.
She faced extremely difficult circumstances at the Hearings and still she hit it right out of the park. Please tell her that we all love her and are very proud to know her.
Warm regards, Tony
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 31, Room 7A-03 31 Center Drive, MSC 2520
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Given that throwing America into a deep, dark economic depression and keeping it there through November plays right into the hands of awful ghouls like the Pantsuit Princess, these two frankly stunning letters raise severe concerns about Fauci’s motivations in all of this, not to mention his overall judgment and self-awareness.
In all fairness to the lovelorn Dr. Fauci, he has just one job: To fight infectious disease. Now, it’s a job that he has not done especially well over his career, given that our country continues to lose 40-60,000 citizens each year to the seasonal flu. And let’s remember: Fauci and the CDC continue to pretend that we actually have a “vaccine” for the various strains of seasonal flu. That’s a reality that should make everyone say “yikes.”
So, Fauci wants to keep you all out of work and stuck in your homes for another 18 months, without seeming to even consider the truth that millions upon millions of Americans will in fact lose those homes if he is able to keep them out of work for even a small fraction of that many months. Many are in fact losing their homes right now because they live paycheck to paycheck and couldn’t pay their rent for April.
And at the end of that long period of time, Fauci proclaims we will have us a spanking new “vaccine” that will in all likelihood be every bit as [in]effective as the “vaccine” for the seasonal flu. Meaning, even when we have that “vaccine,” tens of thousand of Americans are going to continue to die every year from the Wuhan Virus.
Thus, at some point President Trump – you know, the guy who was actually elected to run this country in 2016 – and Americans everywhere are going to have a decision to make much sooner than Fauci would like: We can either see thousands of our fellow citizens die each year destitute and cowering in their homes, or we can see thousands of our fellow citizens die from the Wuhan Virus while getting this country running again.
That’s the real choice here, not the fantasy of some miracle “vaccine” Dr. Fauci keeps peddling.
Our focus right now is properly on slowing the spread of the virus to get our country firmly on the downside of that viral curve. Once we are on that downside, our focus then should shift to marshaling all of our nation’s resources to early identification and isolation of those who contract the Wuhan Virus and effectively treating those who are ill. If we no longer have a strong economy, our ability to marshal such resources will diminish rapidly over time and more people will die as a result.
This is not, as the Democrat/media propaganda complex is already beginning to say, a “choice between money and lives.” It is a choice between prospering while limiting risk, or cowering through a dystopian existence that we intentionally brought on ourselves.
Sometime during the second half of April, you should expect President Trump to lay that choice out before us, and you should get ready to go back to work.
We’re Americans, dammit. When that time comes, let’s act like it.
That is all.
You either trust Trump to delegate the authority-or you do not. He’s either smart enough to recognize good help, as is Pence, or THEY ARE NOT. You either call them out for a failure to recognize this-or you let them lead by delegation. But stop passing the buck onto people they say they trust. It’s shameful.
Awesome
Time to go back to work....
100% correct.
Trump has had a lot of people advising him who did not have his best interests in mind. Not just deep state plants either, people he appointed. John Kelly, Rex Tillerson, HR McMaster, etc. And he gave them too long to linger and undermine. Political realities play a part in that, of course, just like they would with him trying to get rid of Fauci. But let’s not pretend that Trump’s staff has always worked in his interests or he has been super quick to make staffing corrections.
He serves at President Trump’s pleasure. He is also a good Democrat foil against the dem press antagonists:-)
little fauci and his beloved HRC have invested in
vaccines
(useless for a mutating RNA virus
but how the $$$$$$$$$$$ will flow each and every year,
AND anything can be injected to the masses)
12-18 months is how long it takes in a normal case. You ask everyone to stop their lives then we are no longer in normal circumstances. If He’s not willing to take any risk then it’s not that serious and stopping life isn’t warranted. Also, he shouldn’t have a daily bully pulpit in which he oftentimes muddies the message because of his process
So by standing up with Faucci and Brix letting Fauci and Brix explain why the actions taken by Trump is the scientifically wise choice, Trump is undoing that not exactly wrong meme that conservatives hate science.
In fact, folks like you and the utter nonsense you post here is a daily demonstration of why scientists should hate conservatives.
The other obvious thing - that you have closed your eyes to - is that Trump is there watching all of this.
Is he blind - absolutely not - when he sees or hears something he doesn't like he takes action, whether it's a size 14 to stomp on Acosta and correcting a misguided IRS commissioner - overnight.
Drs. Fauci and Birx are being allowed to run the country sort of like two professors who suddenly can make society follow all the rules in their textbooks. An epidemiologist’s dream.
I’m a little disturbed when Fauci insists treatments can’t be verified for “months” when we’re in the middle of the pandemic. Because damn it, we’re going to treat this by the book.
His message is there’s only one way to handle this, and that’s the way we epidemiologists have been preaching for years.
I’ll bet you dollars to donuts there are clinicians and researchers angry that treatments are not being emphasized.
Yes I understand about the need for controlled testing, but duh in the middle of the pandemic we are testing treatments and the disease runs a course of a few days to a few weeks.
Why isn’t someone constantly collecting control group data from the population of the sick, and getting results in a few weeks or a month at most?
Perfectly said. Anyone who has been in the same administrative job for 36 years like Fauci in the same place doing the same things should be viewed with suspicion. Double for anyone doing that in Washington. This is the first time that I have been extremely disappointed in Trump. He’s pissing his own re-election away and the country is going to economic $hit like a rocket. This is so indicative of how the disgusting government works. They ask for an initial sacrifice and then keep re-defining and extending what that means until their is a new normal. Trump needs to stop getting played here by Fauci and Birx and put an end to this sooner than later.
Right-he is President and took on the responsibilities of the job himself. He can delegate if he wants to and his directives are paramount
Fauci told everyone two months ago that this virus would be a non-event for America, and to go about life as normal.
Just five weeks ago Pelosi told everyone to head on down to Chinatown to have a good time. But she almost slipped and let it be known that she knew what was coming.
Neither one of these people should be in charge of anything remotely related to this situation, and certainly shouldn’t be on camera every day claiming to know what they’re talking about.
Uh oh, looks like Dr. Lockdown’s shelf life might be limited. Increasingly this guy is becoming public enemy number one.
By the end of two months his face will be the most hated in America.
Trump is a terrible judge of character. He keep hiring people who oppose him and his agenda.
Ridiculous. Trump will fire him randomly in a few months.
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