Posted on 07/14/2020 7:10:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Top US public health expert Anthony Fauci warned on Tuesday that the global coronavirus outbreak could be as bad as the 1918 flu pandemic, calling that catastrophe “the mother of all pandemics”, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide.
Facing increasing attacks from Donald Trump and White House officials, Fauci spoke to Georgetown University students in Washington on Tuesday about the coronavirus pandemic and its risks to young people.
“We have a serious situation here in the United States,” Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said at the online event.
The US has so far witnessed more than 3.4m cases of Covid-19 and more than 136,000 deaths, with cases now rising in 37 states; record numbers of new cases in Florida, Arizona and Texas; and California shutting down many businesses statewide after recent reopenings.
Fauci warned students at Georgetown that young people must not be “part of the problem”.
“There is an understandable situation where a young person could say, ‘You know, statistically the chances of my getting into trouble by getting infected are much smaller than an elderly person,’” he said.
Many young people, he said, might feel they would “rather be there sipping a margarita in a crowd”, but “to get it under control means you don’t let yourself get infected, and you don’t spread to anybody else”, Fauci said.
He added: “I say that with some trepidation, because I’m not blaming anyone, and I think people do this innocently. They don’t mean to be part of the problem, but inadvertently they are part of the problem.”
It was another instance of the senior public health official, who has been barred from major media appearances in recent weeks, finding other ways to address the public.
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I believe Fauci is working hand in glove with our hard left wing political scientists motivated to extend the Covid-19 disruption past the November elections.
FU Fauci
Yeah, “could”. Or it could not. You really don’t know, do you, Mr. Expert?
And just what do you say dr fauci? “Quack!”
The Fascist Fauci wants America locked down until the country is bankrupt. He is an enemy of the American People and nothing he says should be followed.
I think most people had it but didn't realize they had it because they had no symptoms.
yes
but in honesty the plans for this have always been much bigger than just the 2020 election influence.
they want to fundamentally transform the country in a new world clamped down order. people would not give up theirmfreedoms except they found, unless its passed off as medically necessary. the average person through public school is so uneducated about science and examining claims critically, and their attention spans are so short, think about it, then the media ramps it up to hysteria end of the world feareporting 24/7 for months, liberal areas shut down the economy for months and tens of millions lose their jobs, stress factors registering 11,...
this is far bigger than just the 2020 election.
this is about turning a free nation into a new world order nation thats locked down and restricted and intrusive and overseeing on a level we’d never have normally allowed to occur. but because its passed off as a serious health issue that the media knowingly well overblew, and liberal politicians created policies that killed the one demo group they knew would be high risk, the elderly/preexisting conditions, thereby deliberately increasing the death numbers to make this look worse and more serious than it is, the unwitting microwave attention span scared shiiteless masses bombarded by prop news wverytime they watch anyhting, bought it, they bought the manufactured sham that it is.
I 100% agree with everything you said. Lockdowns are overkill, but masks are probably prudent, considering the really severe consequences of catching this virus.
Spanish Flu - 50 to 60 million dead, roughly 3% of the worlds population in 2018/19 when the world population actually declined... It would take decades to reach such numbers today and the amount of dead would need to be over 200 million to even slightly compare to the Spanish Flu... Fauci has lost his marbles.
Lock Him Up!
If he is the top and leading we are screwed.
How was his Aids and Sars reaction?
Exactly.
Are you SERIOUS? Now that is a very huge accusation. Where did you hear this? Please reply—I really want to know.
Just to get it straight, did I understand that you said Fauci paid the Chinese to develop a stronger version of coronavirus?
The monster terrorizing the planet right now was developed via a process called gain of function, which takes pathogens with pandemic potential and makes them deadlier, more invasive, harder to defend against, and more contagious.
From Newsweek:
"The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses."
"In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million."
"Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release."
Dr. Fauci is Dr. Frankenstein.
COVID-19 is his monster.
“Doctor” Fallacy is like, “You might as well just die now.”
So true.
Yet the fear is epidemic. It's politics.
Even Trump is getting into it. He is saying his actions have saved millions of lives. That's bull. Take Sweden's experience. They left Swedes to themselves going out to work, restaurants, bars, and the like. Take their death to population and scale it to the US. We would have about 150,000 dead by Sweden's experience. The US lockdown deaths are not far behind. No way would millions have died.
With the 1918 flu, masks were not mandatory in most places and not everyone used them. In the end, masks did not slow the rates of infection nor the death rates and there was no social distancing crap. People avoided the sick, quarantined the sick and everyone else went about the business of living. For that matter, people in China wear masks during flu season all the time and it doesn’t slow down their infection rates either.
Did he say it was okay to protest/riot?
NiAiD is his institute, he did not necessarily even see the project, he’s more involved in the political/ yaber/yaber stuff....
.... but the project is his, Wuhan Labs could have been doing bioweapons research there also?
...see my tag line.....
Here is the project
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9819304&icde=49645421
Project Number: 2R01AI110964-06 Contact PI / Project Leader: DASZAK, PETER
Title: UNDERSTANDING THE RISK OF BAT CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCE Awardee Organization: ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC.
Abstract Text:
Project Summary: Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence Novel zoonotic, bat-origin CoVs are a significant threat to global health and food security, as the cause of SARS in China in 2002, the ongoing outbreak of MERS, and of a newly emerged Swine Acute Diarrhea Syndrome in China. In a previous R01 we found that bats in southern China harbor an extraordinary diversity of SARSr-CoVs, some of which can use human ACE2 to enter cells, infect humanized mouse models causing SARS-like illness, and evade available therapies or vaccines. We found that people living close to bat habitats are the primary risk groups for spillover, that at one site diverse SARSr-CoVs exist that contain every genetic element of the SARS-CoV genome, and identified serological evidence of human exposure among people living nearby. These findings have led to 18 published peer-reviewed papers, including two papers in Nature, and a review in Cell. Yet salient questions remain on the origin, diversity, capacity to cause illness, and risk of spillover of these viruses. In this R01 renewal we will address these issues through 3 specific aims: Aim 1. Characterize the diversity and distribution of high spillover-risk SARSr-CoVs in bats in southern China. We will use phylogeographic and viral discovery curve analyses to target additional bat sample collection and molecular CoV screening to fill in gaps in our previous sampling and fully characterize natural SARSr-CoV diversity in southern China. We will sequence receptor binding domains (spike proteins) to identify viruses with the highest potential for spillover which we will include in our experimental investigations (Aim 3). Aim 2. Community, and clinic-based syndromic, surveillance to capture SARSr-CoV spillover, routes of exposure and potential public health consequences. We will conduct biological-behavioral surveillance in high-risk populations, with known bat contact, in community and clinical settings to 1) identify risk factors for serological and PCR evidence of bat SARSr-CoVs; & 2) assess possible health effects of SARSr-CoVs infection in people. We will analyze bat-CoV serology against human-wildlife contact and exposure data to quantify risk factors and health impacts of SARSr-CoV spillover. Aim 3. In vitro and in vivo characterization of SARSr-CoV spillover risk, coupled with spatial and phylogenetic analyses to identify the regions and viruses of public health concern. We will use S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential. We will combine these data with bat host distribution, viral diversity and phylogeny, human survey of risk behaviors and illness, and serology to identify SARSr-CoV spillover risk hotspots across southern China. Together these data and analyses will be critical for the future development of public health interventions and enhanced surveillance to prevent the re-emergence of SARS or the emergence of a novel SARSr-CoV.
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