Posted on 04/10/2022 6:42:50 PM PDT by lightman
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief White House medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared to make yet another pivot Sunday in his ever-changing approach to how the United States should approach the Covid-19 pandemic.
After a few weeks of laying low, Fauci's appearances on major network shows have started to tick up as the BA.2 subvariant, a more transmissible but less lethal version than others we've seen, spreads across parts of the country, particularly the northeast.
During an appearance on ABC's "This Week," guest anchor Jonathan Karl asked Fauci about an op-ed written by Dr. Leana Wen, a CNN medical analyst whose shift over to some positions espoused by Team Reality has been of particular interest given her tyrannical stand on vaccine mandates in the past.
After pointing out this solid quote from Wen's piece:
At this point in the pandemic, we have to accept that infections will keep occurring. During the winter omicron surge, almost half of Americans contracted the Coronavirus. The new omicron subvariant BA.2 is even more contagious. The price to pay to avoid Coronavirus infection is extremely high. Some Americans might choose to continue to pay that price, but I suspect most won't.
Karl asked: "At this point, are we at the point where we have to accept there is going to be risk, there are going to be continued infections, and the cases, thanks to the prevalence of the vaccine, won’t be as serious, we can kind of get back to normal lives knowing that there's a risk out there?"
"You know, Jon, I think Dr. Wen articulated that pretty well," Fauci responded. "There will be a level of infection. This is not going to be eradicated and it’s not going to be eliminated, and what’s gonna happen is we’re going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk that they want to take ..."
Fauci pointed out, as Team Reality proponents have been stressing for more than two years, that there are individual risk factors such as age, health status, and caring for high-risk people that should drive individual risk assessments going forward.
"So we’re at that point where in many respects she’s correct," he continued. "That we’re going to have to live with some degree of virus in the community."
Is this a temporary moment of sanity that will be undone by yet another reminder that Big Government could at any point return to mandating useless masks to "stop the spread" of an unstoppable virus? Probably, which is why we should always take what this man says with a serious grain of salt.
Meanwhile, they're still practicing "zero-Covid" over in Shanghai, China. If you haven't yet, you should read up a little on how that's going, then thank God for Ron DeSantis and others like him.
"So we’re at that point where in many respects she’s correct," he continued.
"That we’re going to have to live with some degree of virus in the community."
He needs to crawl back in a hole.. can we please start to press charges so he goes away. Like with hillary after 2016, you know you could go to jail so go bye bye..
He is a wee little insignificant man. His day in the sun has ended. Like any celebrity.
Well, since your Goons and you created it, Quackony, you should know about the long term effects, right? Someone indict this charlatan.
It has always been with us.
Napoleon required buttons on uniform sleeves to prevent troops from wiping their nose on such.
What a lot of us have known from the beginning.
Why is this creep still given airtime?
Fauci sees what is happening in China and doesn’t want to be linked to it.
After all, the CCP are just taking his ideas from 18 months ago to a logical extreme.
Methinks he’s jealous.
Fauci should be in prison for funding the development of this virus.
Fauxcy doesn’t look like Science to me...
I have been tracking this virus for about two years now using an Excell spreadsheet. As of February22 this year the virus deaths per million for the megalopolis found in the combined states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut was twice that of Sweden, which has a similar disproportion in population makeup between urban and rural. For all of the US it is 41% less. You can verify this information by using the John Hopkin’s site and latest population figures. Since Sweden did mostly nothing, don’t we now have verification that the elite bureaucrats here were not very bright?
That’s odd. I live less than 30 miles from NYC, and I haven’t heard or seen anything about “BA.2”.
Oh, wait, that’s right,
EVERYTHING about “COVID” is a LIE.
“And unfortunately we haven’t successfully spliced the Furin Cleavage into the bird flu virus yet, due to problems at the Wuhan lab chuck.” fauci said. “But we anticipate that problem will be solved before the midterm elections. At least enough people will contract the bird flu by then to create enough panic to really fix the elections for our communist sympathizers here in the US.” Fauci reiterated.
They wasted the 2009 pandemic(H1N1 Swine Flu) and would not let another chance slip by.
Hussein O. may be the one directing this.
Agreed. Why didn't Trump do so when he had the chance?
As a civil servant, Fauci cannot be "fired" in the traditional sense. But he could have been removed from his position as head of NIAID.
Trump & Co. cocked up the pandemic response from Day One.
“Its just the flu” dumbasses are confused.
As always.
“unstoppable virus?”
There is no cure for the common cold.
1. pays to have research done at the Wuhan Lab
2. a strain of virus is somehow released from the lab
3. there’s a global infection
4. millions die
5. the man who paid to create the virus, winds up being the
spokesman ‘expert’ regarding the treatment and safety
precautions for the virus
Does anyone besides me see a conflict of interest here?
We’ve been over this many times. So when is one Republican
going to even timidly bring it up?
Sitting there talking the ‘science’ of the controlling elites all the while none of that matters. POLITICS, Biden’s politics and the looming utter defeat coming for Democrats in both Houses this November.....by August/September the administration will call for quarantines and masking AND the need for nationwide, mail-in ballots. 2020 Fraud Redux writ large.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.