“ Too bad FAUDci’s appointment won’t expire”
Oh, after two months of Michael Osterholm you will be begging to have Fauci back.
Michael Osterholm - ugh!! He’s been torturing Minnesotans for decades. You’re right. Osterholm makes Fauxi look mild in comparison.
Osterholm is likely the “Dark Winter” line author.
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!