Dr. Anthony Fauci says U.S. coronavirus cases are ‘unacceptably high’ going into Labor Day

White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that the number of daily coronavirus cases in the United States is “unacceptably high” heading into the fall season.

The U.S. is seeing roughly 40,000 new cases a day, but it needs to bring infections below 10,000, Fauci said during an interview with MSNBC.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the public’s behavior over the Labor Day holiday weekend will determine how the coronavirus spreads in the U.S. through the colder months.

I don’t think they have anything on Trump, other than he’s a well-known germaphobe even before CoVid.

I think Trump decided that he should listen to some “experts”, which he has actually always done, but then made his own decisions based on the information he had. With this being a “new” Coronavirus, there wasn’t a lot of information that he felt he could trust.

Even though it bothers me that he has given Fauci so much credit, it also doesn’t, because I know the optics would be bad for him to completely go against something Fauci has said. Look at what happened with HCQ.

What Trump may not have known before, but he does now, is that the medical bureaucrats who have long been running the scientific community are just as much Swamp creatures as those of the Deep State.

That’s why he has brought Scott Atlas onto the team. He has to hear from differing viewpoints, which is exactly what science and scientists are supposed to do. Science is never settled.

It’s like all the blind men grabbing one part of an elephant and trying to describe it. They each describe the part of the elephant that they come into contact with.

Science does the same kind of thing. In an effort to get rid of confounding variables, scientists limit how much of the elephant (or virus or whatever they’re studying) that they look at. Then they tell us what that study finds.

The thing we’re all wishing is that Trump would do his usual “you’re fired!” routine with Fauci. Believe me, I would LOVE for Fauci to be gone from the NIH. I have not liked that man at the helm of his division for years and years and years. How he is still there is beyond me. Isn’t it just like how rotten people sometimes get the promotion when they just step on top of other people and use them? I’m sure Fauci did the same darn thing.

I think this virus spread is all about inside vs outside. We had lots of cases in NY early in March-April, when it was too cold to be outside much. And then we got lots of cases in the hottest states in the summer, when it was too hot to be outside much (AC).

I’m blessed/cursed to live in CA, and have been staying outside EVERY DAY (working from home), and walk outside, go to the dog park, hike and got to the beach. . .other than washing hands, staying outside is key I think (one study of 7000 cases showed only 1 case was from outdoor transmission).

Fresh air and sunshine—bad for viruses, good for the immune system. A good combo. Plus a few raw oysters for the zinc!

So, based on a 15% rate to hit herd immunity, and a death rate of 0.2%, the total number of deaths before we hit herd immunity would be just a smidge under 100,000. We hit 100,000 on 22 May. So, according to your numbers, we have had herd immunity in the US for over 3 months!

PS - the death rate for September 2 was 1,090, and we’ve had a total of 190,300 deaths through that date.

I think you and I have a different understanding of what herd immunity means.

“Cases plus vaccines will get to her immunity too”

Given that some % of the people who get COVID will DIE, wouldn’t it be better to get to herd immunity mainly through vaccines?

Oh wait, we don’t have a vaccine.

Until we get a vaccine, wouldn’t it make sense that we take whatever actions we can to reduce the number of people who get the disease?

I think we already are (taking actions to reduce those who get COVID)—I sure do anyway (I don’t grocery shop at all and stay outside in my backyard a huge % of the time). And I’m not even in a high risk category. . .I’m not anti-mask, etc.

I do want the option to return my children to school, however. I live in a tyrannical state and so I don’t even have that option, and despite only one new case yesterday in my school district, the union seems completely uninterested in going back. . .ever?

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