Posted on 01/18/2022 9:42:11 AM PST by george76
Anthony Fauci still insists it’s too early to say the pandemic is waning due to the contagious but mild Omicron variant.
Speaking online at the World Economic Forum, Fauci was asked if the virus that causes COVID-19 would finally become endemic in 2022. He responded by saying it’s too early to tell and that the world still appears to be in phase one of a five-phase pandemic, The New York Times reported.
“Dr. Fauci also said that the world is still in the first of what he considered to be the five phases of the pandemic. The first is the ‘truly pandemic’ phase, ‘where the whole world is really very negatively impacted,’ followed by deceleration, control, elimination and eradication,” The Times reported.
Fauci added that the only infectious human disease to ever be eradicated was smallpox but said, “That’s not going to happen with this virus.”
Further, Fauci insisted that countries needed to reach phase two, or the “control” phase, to make the virus a “non-disruptive presence” in society. When this happens, he said, the virus could be considered endemic, likening it to the rhinovirus and certain other upper respiratory infections.
Fauci also said during the event that since the Omicron variant is more contagious but causes less severe symptoms, it could help spread collective immunity, but insisted “it is an open question as to whether or not Omicron is going to be the live virus vaccination that everyone is hoping for, because you have such a great deal of variability with new variants emerging.”
“I would hope that that’s the case,” Fauci added, “but that would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response.”
Fauci cautioned that the future of the pandemic is still unknown, saying, “The answer is: We do not know.”
Fauci has become a polarizing figure during the pandemic, from regularly changing his stance on various aspects of the pandemic such as masks and isolation times, to consistently insisting we are hardly better off than we were in March 2020.
As The Daily Wire reported, the frustrations with Fauci could come to a head if Republicans win back the House in 2022. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that he would investigate Fauci should Republicans retake the lower chamber.
“If the American people put us back in charge, we are definitely going to do this because we now know without a doubt that Dr. Fauci knew on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 that this thing came from a lab,” Jordan said. “The top scientists in the country were saying it came from a lab. One scientist says we got the notes now from the conference call on February 1st. One scientist says, ‘I don’t see how this can happen in nature, but it would be easy to do in a lab.’”
“And yet just in a matter of days, they changed their position, write the article that appears in Nature of Medicine Magazine, which then gets cited in the now famous letter in The Lancet, which became the gospel for the fact that Fauci can go out and tell people it didn’t come from a lab when in fact they knew it did,” Jordan continued. “The interesting thing is. We point this out. We just learned this last week, the two doctors who were most adamant that this thing came from a lab early on: one is Dr. Kristian Anderson. On Jan. 31, 2020, he says this to Dr. Fauci in an email: ‘Virus looks engineered. Virus not consistent with evolutionary theory.’ So, he knew it came from a lab.”
Why does anyone in the world listen to Fauxi ?!?!?!!!!!!!
Fauci has turned the pejorative “Tin Foil Hat” into a laudative ...
Oh good God.
I think many countries are most definitely in the “control” stage of this epidemic.
I agree with you that this about power for Fauci, but disagree that he wants to obtain more. Rather he has acquired more power and authority for any elected or unelected official in our nation’s history. He just refuses to relinquish it now, and will say or do whatever he must to hold onto it.
No dictator or potentate ever gives up there power / authority voluntarily, and Fauci is not an exception.
That crazy little midget is a psychotic sociopath.
On a radio news bit was some expert’s opinion that dealing with COVID-19 would become “as easy as malaria” and some other serious disease I can’t recall. (I was on the road with errands.)
LOL - yes he was saying it should be kind of passe, but still - comparing it to deadly malaria and the other much deadlier than this nonsense?
Fauxi needs to be sized for a twine tie and a tall tree, as do THOUSANDS of others!
LET'S GO BRANDON FAUXI!
LET'S GO BRANDON!
LET'S GO BRANDON TRUE-DOLT!
LET'S GO BRANDON KENNEY!
LET'S GO BRANDON TAM!
LET'S GO BRANDON HINSHAW!
LET'S GO BRANDON COPPING!
LET'S GO BRANDON SHANDRO!
LET'S GO BRANDON MADU!
I do so like to cheer these jokers on!
Fauci,you little a$$hole.
Get a fricken life. FO!
Don’t worry. The Covid mandates are “temporary”. Like the income tax.
So 2 or more years per phase, so in 8 or more years we can see people’s faces and hear them talk clearly again? Yeah ok fauci!
Dr. Fugazi !!!
Still has barrels of snake oil in the warehouse.
[[If your kid goes to school and they say he or she (or zee, or they or it (sarcasm)) has to have a mask then request one]]
Or,do,what one school did where all,the kids refused to wear them practically, and the school just dropped the mandate
Apparently I did. Please inform me.
Hopefully Phase 2 is when Fauci gets fired, and Phase 3 is when he gets prosecuted.
Because because he’s cooked up for more!
No, it’s been two years.
We are done with it, like stage 6 out of 5.
Can’t someone put a muzzle on this idiot?
Really. First phase of the tyranny. What a POS (Fauxci).
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