Posted on 11/30/2020 5:40:40 PM PST by Rio
his 130-day detail as a Special Government Employee (SGE) expired this week.
Nah.. his 130-day detail as a Special Government Employee expired this week.
Scott Atlas is a nice guy. He has a lot of common sense.
I will miss him.
Add spousal abuse in there.
He did his job.
Good point
Agreed on that. Fauci (despite the hatred for him here) is sometimes partially right. Tucker Carlson goes after Fauci pretty hard here:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-anthony-fauci-schools-must-stay-open
BUT, Tucker’s argument is dishonest. He cites the lack of serious illnesses or fatalities from COVID-19 in the 18 and under group, however, that has not been the issue for a long time. The question since April(?) has been whether or not kids in school would be an accelerant to the spread of COVID-19 to reasonably active but nonetheless at risk folks - mainly those 65 and older, and / or maybe a bit overweight or have some other (may be hidden) co-morbidity.
At this point, and you are probably one of the best qualified people on FR to correct me if I am wrong, I’m not seeing evidence that there is explosive spread of COVID-19 in primary and secondary schools that leads to high transmission rates back to, well, anyone. Either the kids are just more resistant to infection in the 1st place, or maybe they control infections so well that they generally are poor spreaders, or both. ??
I don’t think we really knew this part of it until this fall, as many schools shut down in the spring / 1st wave, and of course over the summer was no test. There was one study in Europe, but I’d want a lot more data than one study in conditions that might or might not be close to those in the US (vs. known behavior of other “cold” type viruses in schools here!), before sounding an “all clear”. Tucker might not like it, but, it IS (or at least was) rather dicey, a grand experiment, one might say, to reopen schools here this fall with a base of well over a million known active infections in the population. I’d say it was an absolutely necessary “experiment”, with favorable odds, but I don’t think the outcome was certain... Still, I strongly supported it despite potential risk to my own family (wife teaches preschool, daughter is in HS with some risk factors of her own, I’m over 65, and we have two other family members who are high risk, including my 90 y/o Mom who we care for). (Yeah, we mitigate a lot, carefully!!! But we don’t hide in a hole, either...)
I am under the impression Fauci acknowledges this lack of kids as vectors, or something like it, and DOES concede the harm to kids being out of school for protracted periods. Compare that to, say, Beshear, in KY. Ugh!
I agree with you; I’ve been passionately involved in the reopening schools effort since March and read all the studies, etc.
The Israel outbreak that brought down the nation basically was due to—no surprise to us parents—middle schoolers :).
You are right the Tucker’s argument was a little dishonest. Some teachers are over 70 and some live with older parents and some are obese.
The schools should have been left open, and teachers and students who chose to stay remote (or needed to) could have been paired together in some cases, or those teachers could have streamed into the classroom.
Children do not need to be 4-6 feet apart, but they do need to be 4-6 feet away from teachers. All very doable.
Classrooms could have been held outside for those states with nice climates (last Spring and this fall at least).
I attended 4 rallies so far in an effort to reopen schools. I’m in CA. My daughter’s private school reopened in Oct and my son’s public one will in Jan. Can’t wait.
why don’t you google what’s in italics there, for an answer
He dare to suggest the at masks and lock downs are of questionable value
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Ain't much of that around Sodom on the Potomac these days.
He'll be there as long as Soros needs him.
The COVID-19 shutdown will cost Americans millions of years of life
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https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/499394-the-covid-19-shutdown-will-cost-americans-millions-of-years-of-life
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KL3ak04WrTZB/
I don’t think Fauci is a political appointee. If not then President Trump would have to go through the ordinary civil service procedures that cover and protect regular government employees. Civil service protections will also cover people hired through ordinary procedures during the past 4 years, and presumably some who were hired through the encouragement of Trump appointees. Thus there will also be restraints on Biden for wholesale firings.
Today I encountered an interesting youtube video explaining the exact process of how Covid infects various parts of the human body. Dr. Hansen wrote this April 15th, but there is probably now much more useful information. For example, he does not mention the attack on the red blood cells and the appearance of high levels of ferritin in the body after the RBCs are attacked. His explains how Covid attaches to ACE2 cells in the nose and mouth mucosa and eventually when it gets to the little air pockets (alveolea) in the lungs causes the cytokyme storms that are so fatal. This sounds like a good argument for masking, as if only small amounts of virus are getting through a mask they would probably mostly stop in the nose and mouth without getting deep into the lungs, thus making the illness more mild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8wWhjTKRU
I think the big worry about schools was that COVID would follow a sort of flu pattern where infections among & between school age kids exploded, then the kids took the virus home to their parents, Grandma, etc. Once an effective spreader is in a home, it is almost impossible to prevent infection of others in that home and retain any sense of “family” at all.
I know that last all too well: A couple months ago my daughter “brought home something” from school. We all went to get tested & tried to prevent my wife and I from getting infected as best we could. The COVID PCR tests all came out negative, but first my wife and then I fell ill as my daughter recovered. Luckily I was not taking care of my Mom (lives separately from us) on what were my most (I think) infectious days, and she never got “anything”, but I in particular got “whacked” badly enough to spend most of two days in bed. Point being: Despite taking precautions, but not totally isolating in separate rooms all the time, everybody in our household caught whatever that bug my daughter brought home was.
Fauci seems to be saying that the above would be a bit atypical for COVID-19 because big breakouts in schools, such as we often see with flu, have not been a major problem where schools stayed open or resumed classes. Indeed, although it is not a large sample, every case that I know of locally, of a kid contracting COVID-19, has been due to transmission from an adult to a child.
When it comes to being effective spreaders, maybe it’s just us gr’ups. (Star Trek reference.)
I wonder if one reason children don’t get as sick is because parents pay more attention to giving their kids good nutrition and vitamins than they do for themselves. I once read that parents who have had trouble getting pregnant sometimes get pregnant after they adopt a child. It occurred to me that maybe they are more careful about good diet once they have a child to care for.
Three times I tried to take a look at the link I had posted at my comment #36. Twice it went to a youtube about a California doctor successfully treating 1700 patients using the Zelenko 3 part protocol, although he does not mention doses, or Dr. Z’s name. The third time I got there I did not pay attention to the youtube, but immediately put my comment in as quickly as possible. Successfully this time, although this time at the original site in my comment #36. Don’t know what the heck happened to the other youtube. Below is what I finally posted the third try.
This is the 3rd time I am attempting to post this. Each time I type the work zinc, which is the second item the doctor lists as part of his treatment, although very quickly and sort of mumbling, this page disappears and I have to start from scratch. He also mentions using an antiobiotic, either Azithromycin or Doxycycline. Some cannot use the first antibiotic as easily as the second one. Thus he is using exactly the combo which was initially reported 3 times to the White House. This resulted in severals experiments, one at a VA hospital, another at NIH which showed the HCQ does NOT work. However, neither study used zinc, and neither used it on early out-patients. I wish him better luck than the doctor from New York selling the use of the very, very, very, low cost mineral virus killer, zinc.
Are you on any of the prophylactic regimens, glee? Either HCQ, Ivermectin or Quercetin.....along, of course, with the zinc?
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