Posted on 03/29/2022 7:25:37 PM PDT by lightman
White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said he does not believe "we're ever going to be able to determine" if COVID lockdowns were worth their resulting consequences and suggested that pandemic lockdowns and mask mandates could be reinstated in the event of a surge in infections and hospitalizations.
Fauci's comments came during an interview on BBC's "Sunday Morning" with Sophie Raworth.
Asked if people will be able to go back to living a pre-pandemic life or if a future COVID variant could prompt a return to pandemic restrictions like lockdowns and mask mandates, Fauci said there is a "gradual" trend towards normalcy currently occurring but warned that people should "be prepared" for some restrictions to eventually be reimposed.
"I believe that we must keep our eye on the pattern of what we're seeing with infections," Fauci said. "Right now, I'll take the United States, for example, the cases continue to go down, the hospitalizations go down and the deaths go down. We are going in a gradual way towards what we all hope will be normal."
"Having said that, we need to be prepared for the possibility that we would have another variant that would come along and if things change, and we do get a variant that does give us an uptick in cases and hospitalizations, we should be prepared and flexible enough to pivot towards going back, at least temporarily, to a more rigid type of restriction such as requiring masks indoors," he continued.
Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been declining in the U.S. since the country saw a case surge in the winter as a result of the omicron variant.
The new highly transmissible BA.2 omicron sub-variant spreading across the world currently accounts for 54.9 percent of infections, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Fauci said last week that he does not expect the BA.2 variant to cause a surge in coronavirus cases.
The doctor also said during the BBC interview that he doesn't think "we're ever going to be able to determine" whether or not pandemic lockdowns were worth the negative impacts of closing people off from society but argued that such restrictions prevented a lot of hospitalizations and deaths.
"Obviously, when you do have that kind of restriction on society, there are unintended negative consequences, particularly in children who are not allowed to go to school, in the psychological and mental health aspects it has on children, in the economic stress that it puts on society in general, on individual families. Obviously, those are negative consequences that are unintended. One has to look at the balance of life saved, hospitalizations avoided," Fauci said. Recommended The Home Depot Has Gone Woke, But There's a Catch Matt Vespa
He went on to address whether the origin of COVID will ever be found given that China, the virus's country of origin, has been reluctant to allow an investigation to occur. Fauci also claimed that the most likely origin of COVID is from an animal rather than a laboratory.
"Given the fact that there's such restrictions on ability to really investigate it, I'm not sure," Fauci said when asked if the truth about COVID's origins will ever be known. "Right now, the data are accumulating over the last few months, much more heavily weighted that this was a natural occurrence, from an animal species. However, having said that, we must keep an open mind as to all possibilities of how that might have emerged."
Fixed.
Just in time to save the democrats from the midterm wipeout.
The only thing they have to cheer is fear itself.
Just keep sending me my $30k per month.
Dr Faucet…his mouth always runs.
The polls must be really horrible if the dems want to shut down the country again. They must really need mail-in voting.
I can think of a lock-down that would help. It certainly would
be very satisfying.
Politician's heads should roll (figuratively) across the world
Give me 5 minutes with this fncktard.
Johns Hopkins study. Settled Science.
Please, give me the time in this life to be able to piss on his grave.
He doesn’t like the taste of irrelevancy.
Damn, I was so happy when this irritating ‘RAT temporarily went into a hole somewhere and kept quiet. But it looks like both he and his ever ready mouth are back.☹️☹️🤦🏼
House silently screams!
I will never be muzzled. It was a show of obediance to government and their egotistical power to rule. Faucci is the Joseph Mengelar of modern times.
In the meantime true patriots put in handcuffs at the border. We are sick nation. Note: First 2 minutes of link
When Fauci says wrap your face and get in the cage, you do that.
I’m sure you could spare him an hour instead.
If you can’t say that lockdowns were worth it, why would you say you’d do it again?
He can p__ up a rope.
(Literally)
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