Posted on 04/17/2021 9:46:03 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, admitted Friday that weighing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions against personal liberties is something he finds "very frustrating."
Fauci's admission came one day after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) confronted the infectious disease doctor about when the Biden administration would recommend lifting pandemic-related restrictions so that "Americans get their freedom back."
What did Fauci say? While speaking with MSNBC host Joy Reid, Fauci suggested that personal freedoms should take a backseat to public health measures.
Reid asked Fauci, "Does it shock you, frustrate you, how do you feel when you are peppered with questions about, you know, restrictions and freedoms — and the dead, the 560,000 dead are not mentioned?"
Fauci told Reid that he finds it "very frustrating."
"Well, it's very frustrating, because, you know, as a public health official, I'm very much aware of this issue of COVID-19 fatigue, about people really being worn down and tired of the kinds of restrictions that we have when we do public health guidelines," Fauci said.
However, Fauci admitted that he, at least, empathizes with Jordan and also wants to return to normal life, but emphasized that he places a "higher priority" on public health measures.
Congressman Jordan mentioned the people of Ohio. I care very much for the people of Ohio. I don't want to see them get sick or die, because we have 560,000 Americans that have died so far. So, we're looking at it from different perspectives. I'm looking at it from a public health perspective, and he was talking about the infringement upon liberties. Right now, what we need to do is get this pandemic behind us. And we will do that, and it will not be an indefinite period of time.
The thing that we have so much in our favor is that we now have 80 million Americans fully vaccinated and 127 million have had at least one dose. Each day, we get 3 to 4 million people vaccinated, additionally, each day that goes by. So, what we need to do is just hang on there a bit longer until we get the majority, the overwhelming majority, of people vaccinated. And you will see the level of infection continue to come down. And when it does, then you'll see a relaxation of the kind of restrictions that people would like to get rid of because they want to get their lives back. I certainly want to get my life back. But I also put, as a higher priority, the health and the safety and the lives of the American public. Anything else? When Jordan grilled Fauci for specific metrics regarding what must happen before Americans receive their freedoms back, Fauci refused to provide details.
"You know, you're indicating liberty and freedom ... but I look at it as a public health measure to keep people from dying and going to the hospital," Fauci told Jordan.
America was a giant covid-lockdown experiment. Funny how it seems some of the most lock downed areas had some of the highest death counts per capita. I am thinking of the Mid-Atlantic states & the NorthEast.
Point is you can run from the virus. But sooner or later, it's gonna find you. No one can hide from it.
How would he know?
It’s all about the power. Nothing else matters.
A perfect example of - what's the simile? - two people sitting in the same cinema and seeing entirely different films.
Regards,
We wouldn’t be having this discussion if Donald Trump wasn’t such an abysmal judge of character. I lost count of all the people who were ‘terrific’ guys/gals before they plunged the knife in.
” Right now, what we need to do is get this pandemic behind us. And we will do that, and it will not be an indefinite period of time.”
This idiot says it’s not indefinite WHILE saying he cannot say when it will end.
That’s how stupid this guy is.
This has been nothing but an overthrow of the US election and the US traditional culture.
Anything working towards those ends was allowed.
Anything working against it was restricted and forbidden.
We are in the non-shooting part of a civil war.
Fauchnocchio can wring his hands all he likes - he and his spousal unit are getting steady paychecks, so no worries on HIS part.
Exactly.
Trump was in a cage fight to the death with endless opponents, seen and unseen.
Try it sometime and tell us how it comes out for you.
The only thing frustrating Power-Tripper Fauci is the number of us who don’t take orders from him and are going about our lives without fear.
Happy 20th FR anniversary, BTW - a little early. :)
I somewhat agree with you but I think Americans totally underestimates the level of graft and corruption that has become cultural and normal in D.C. They think our money is theirs and that any money they forgot to steal is a "subsidy" for useless eaters.
If the first coming of Christ was intended by God to clean up D.C. then God would have had to send in Christ for a second coming out of necessity. In fact that book of the Bible would have been named "Either the Greedy F*cks Repent or I Fry Them".
That is why May 1st, May Day is "Masks Off Day".
Mine’s been off for months.
I hope to see a lot more free faces after May 1st. I’m tired of seeing so many people looking so submissive.
Yes, Trump could have fired Fauci, the top epidemiologist in the Federal government for the last 40 years, and hoped the senate wouldn’t convict him after Nanzi promptly impeached him again for endangering the country in the midst of an epidemic.
Trump didn’t choose Fauci, Fauci was already there.
Great points.
It wouldn’t have been an honest case but it would have been a lot more convincing case than either of the other two faux impeachments.
Trump was nearly convicted in the second one thanks to backstabbing RINOs. With covid hysteria backing it I have no doubt more RINOs would have plunged their daggers in.
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