Posted on 03/01/2021 3:23:48 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although it may feel like North Carolina hit a crucial benchmark in returning to normalcy from COVID-19 this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci is voicing concern for states that have pulled back on regulating limits on social life.
In an interview with "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, advised caution for what he feels is prematurely lifting restrictions among some states.
North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia all eased major restrictions on Friday, as did Massachusetts, Arkansas and Wyoming. Several other states eased some level of restrictions. The loosening of rules came days after the nation passed the 500,000 death mark from COVID-19.
"We had a graphic showing about a dozen states, some, like North Carolina, allowing more fans in the stands. We had more indoor bars being open and things like this," Todd began his line of questioning. "You and [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director] Dr. [Rochelle] Walensky were like 'not yet.' Why not yet? Why is this week not the week yet to ease restrictions?"
"It's really too premature right now to be pulling back too much," said Fauci, who's come under the public eye since the start of the pandemic. "I'm concerned that we're still at that level of 70,000 [infections per day], and when people start then pulling back on mitigation methods and mitigation activities, you have the risk, and it is a real risk, of seeing it go back up, and it's not something I'm imagining. Go back and look at the surges that we've had over the past year. It was always at a time when you wanted to pull back."
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We must strive to pull back because the longer we wait to begin, the less likely we are going to pull back at all.
...DECLINING numbers were fudged UPWARDS...
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Adams County death #s have DECLINED 2x on the Weather Channel tally. It was up to 14 at one point, declined back down to 11 & went to 10 on this past Friday, where it still stands.
I don’t recall the actual numbers in Vernon County, but a friend told us deaths declined by some amount precisely when a neighboring county’s health director resigned...probably around the first of the year.
Adams case #s keep creeping up. Now at 1578 out of around 19k.
Fauci is 80 years old, yet driven by the power of evil. It must be a great preservative that keeps him going.
We are very much looking forward to vacationing at the OBX again this year, as we have off and on for many years. As native North Carolinians, we take a lot of pride in our beautiful State, from the mountains to the coasts. It’s disgusting what the forced lock downs have done to businesses here, but also in other States.
We’ve also been trying to support as many local businesses as we can through this thing. We’ll be glad to support businesses that are open when we get there.
Peach
Garden gnome Fauci tell us more about the double face diapers you claim are common sense, no science backing. And we have random controlled trial with US Marines Corps and it did jack squat. Just like any face diaper, never proven to stop viral transmission.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717
“The State keeps sending me a message to download their “Covid-19 Tracking App”, to let me know if I’ve been in contact with anyone testing positive.”
Really> I haven’t received such a message - (am in the Raleigh area) - but would ignore it if I did.
Good grief! How do your “covid graphs” look?
Ours in NC are very much going down.
So much so that even tinpot dictator Gov Cooper could not keep the restrictions as tight as he had been.
That’s right.
Sounds wonderful!
Another candidate for the gallows.
You’re right.
So far the legislature and the attorney general are still Republican. But the Legislature passed a law mandating the schools to be opened which Cooper vetoed. Am waiting to see if somehow the Legislators overturned his veto. (They are no longer a veto proof majority).
Wise move for you.
Fauci has far surpassed the 15 minutes of fame that he never deserved in the first place.
Yes he would!!!!!
Way past the age where he should shuffle off into the sunset.
Folks need to tell this arrogant old quack to shove it
I still think one day when he stands before his maker, he will have to answer for the hundreds of thousands of deaths that could have been prevented by the HCQ - zinc - zirythromyecin (sp?) cocktail which he poo poo’d.
He is a teeny totalitarian tinpot who will unceremoniously rot in hell one day.....so I guess I should not worry about him. But the damage he has done - the DAMAGE!!!!!
the covid cases are spiraling downward
Arizona is near herd immunity
however, hysteria is accelerating through the roof
‘Not just Royboy’s...’
if I do not die from covid, or something else, I am moving to Brunswick County this fall...I was there last fall, and I had the misfortune to watch Royboy’s performance on TV commercials; despicable, to be generous...what a bleeping weasel, whining and wringing his hands...
he grades out just a bit higher than the ‘slope-shouldered mediocrity’ named tom Wolf, who runs PA...
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