Posted on 10/23/2020 9:00:17 PM PDT by conservative98
But he has said before that he doesn't think a federal law would be the way to go.
"I don't like to be authoritarian from the federal government, but at the local level, if governors and others essentially mandate the use of masks when you have an outbreak, I think that would be very important," Fauci told Alabama Sen. Doug Jones during a Facebook live event in July.
Until now.
"Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it," Fauci told CNN's Erin Burnett Friday.
Christie urges Americans to wear a mask and says they are not a 'partisan or cultural symbol' Christie urges Americans to wear a mask and says they are not a 'partisan or cultural symbol' Covid-19 has been worsening across the United States, with cases rising in 32 states Friday and holding steady in 17 more. The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation said the country was entering a winter surge as new infections passed 75,000 in a single day on Friday and more than 800 deaths were reported.
Mask mandates may be tricky to enforce, but it might be time to call for them, Fauci said.
"There's going to be a difficulty enforcing it, but if everyone agrees that this is something that's important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and says, you know, we're going to mandate it but let's just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly," he said.
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When is the unwashed going to get fed up with the nanny state? Whether these sheep know it or not, they are being conditioned to take orders from the government.
Gee, I didn't know that the guy was a legal expert, too!
Apparently, he is also qualified to hold forth on topics ranging from virology to the passage of legislation on the federal / state level.
Almost as though he were an elected official!
I'm surprised that he doesn't demand that we pass a constitutional amendment!
Regards,
Fauci needs to be retired.
Both.
There are two groups, with of course some overlap between them.
Group 1 consists of "important" people (like politicians), athletes, high risk individuals, and those like health care workers whose activities tend to place them at increased risk of infection. By now this group is fairly well established as to who gets tested fairly regularly. I would suspect that as more cases are reported, some additional individuals might be added to this group, but I also suspect those additions are, at this point, not a big number. These are, basically, your "just getting tested" group.
Group 2 is by far the larger group, consisting of individuals who have symptoms, or believe they do. My immediate family and I were part of this group for a few days: My daughter brought home a "bug", we all requested and got tested for COVID-19 and came out negative, but despite trying to take some precautions, my wife and I also got it, whatever "it" was. It just wasn't COVID-19.
We ARE going into the fall respiratory disease season: Therefor much increased numbers of people are going to come down with one bug or another, show symptoms, and desire to be tested. Some of those will be infected with COVID-19, as it is one of the most infectious bugs out there. COVID-19 "positives" are sure to rise.
This is all normal and to be expected. In and of themselves, the increased positives mean little more than what I just laid out, above.
That said, an important caveat is that in the past, increased positives DID lead to increased fatalities.
A much more telling metric is the number of serious or critical COVID-19 cases. So far in Oct., this number has risen, but, NOT dramatically so.
Casualties (as defined by me = fatalities plus the quite significant numbers of those left with long term damage) are a lagging indicator and must be considered very carefully and cautiously when making predictions. That said, at present, if using a 7-day average, they are a fairly flat curve. The trend over the last several weeks has been a slight drift downward. Based on hospitalizations or serious / critical cases, I would expect that to turn into a modest increase -- not good, but also surely not deserving this MSM & Dem hype as if the entire East Coast of the US had just been wiped out by an asteroid-tsunami!
...and this is with mask mandates in place in many areas. Masks do not work.
It is about time to 'go Galt'. The people in this formerly great country have gone insane.
I suspect when people start interacting with each other (as in the case of school reopenings, or BLM protests), they start spreading diseases. Most of the time these are common colds. Sometimes it’s a norovirus or the flu or COVID-19.
My spouse got tested for common cold symptoms because she was paranoid of spreading COVID-19 to elderly relatives. It was our “luck” it was actually COVID-19.
Thank you.
As someone who actually drives 65 (in the south, no less); I can assure you that the answer is NO!
How about rescinding that asinine 'national emergency' order???
Screw 'em, I guess.
Maybe you can get one of those face shields? Some are very clear and then breathing is good and the students can see facial expressions.
I’m very pro getting students of all ages back in school. I really think teachers and professors can be maskless and just stay more than six feet away from the front of the class. They really have to be maskless to be heard.
“Biden Calls For Federal Mask Mandate In Interstate Highways”
Fauci might as well be working for the Biden campaign. period.
My husband and daughter have returned to in office work and in person school.
My son and I are home still, him in his distance learning and I in my teleworking.
So we are doubling our risk because 1/2 the family is now out mingling.
And that is OK—I’m thrilled my daughter is back at school and wish my son’s would open up and stop dragging their feet.
Some things—many things—are worth a little risk.
On the other hand, I don’t go shopping at all. Not worth the risk and I hate shopping anyway so it’s a win win.
But it was worth the risk to go to a Trump rally! I did opt for a mask but I”m a HUGE believer in the power of the outdoors in the sunshine. The virus is just swept away outside and dies in the sun.
Probably we are at the herd immunity threshold, which is why so many of the tests are showing antibodies. Take the masks off, let the virus die off, no one is dying except for those who are so fragile medically any cold virus would be serious.
America’s pest!
I just bought the Fauci 60 Minutes Quote mask from here:
https://www.treadnot.us/product-category/masks/
Same here and our country is approaching the “purple” zone which will trigger a public health crisis event.
I am tired of being chided over this mask stuff.
Virus cases are surging in Europe too. It’s not just the United States.
Masks didn’t work in 1918 and they are not going to work now.
The longer we do this the more we expose the frail and sick. I have seen the frail and sick suffer, but recover. This is an endemic because it is an RNA virus or because we made it that way.
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