Fauci: our very own little tyrant
Dr. Fauci chides America:
“I was talking with my U.K. colleagues who are saying the U.K. is similar to where we are now, because each of our countries have that independent spirit,” he said on stage. “I can understand that, but now is the time to do what you’re told.”
Now is the time? You and your fellows have been telling America what to do since March. Americans aren’t children, and you’re not their dad.
As for what we’ve been told – I seem to recall that we were told there would be a 2-week shutdown just to “flatten the curve.” Wasn’t that about 8 months ago? We know a lot more about COVID now. Death rates are down even though positive tests are up. It’s not clear that lockdowns have helped. Disease has always been with us and is not going away, and there is no way to protect everyone forever.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Fauci’s not alone, of course. The list of Democratic politicians who seem intent on controlling others is long.
Dr Fauci lost me when he told the public wearing a mask would not help. I thought to myself … is this guy crazy or something else going on here?
As I remember so did WHO, CDC and all the “experts.”
“I can understand that, but now is the time to do what you’re told.”
I did what I was told and that didn’t work out that well!
I don’t think he or the others have ever come forward and said … ok I lied to you but here’s why!
Even the experts do not know what does and what does not affect the transmission of the virus. Everything they have tried has failed to stop the spread. Maybe because it cannot be stopped.
We have learned very much about how to lessen the affect on the infected, how to effectively treat those that have symptoms back to good health, and how to identify and protect those most vulnerable. Public policy – lockdowns, mandatory masks, etc. – have had no measurable positive effect against the virus.
And, yet, they persist. The governor of Maine has reinstated the ban on folks from Massachusetts. Because, umm, cases there are too high.
I’ve been watching some YouTube clips of talk radio in the UK and from what they say the lockdown there is not being followed nearly as tightly as before. And as almost always these measures are enacted right when the peak is hitting then they claim their measures did it.
Looks likely that the new lockdowns (or freeze as the Oregon governor is calling it) are going to be closing in person dining and limiting gatherings and of course closing gyms (a bizarre target backed by little evidence).
I think even these totalitarian clowns have realized that killing the already weakened tax base is a step too far.
And Fauci’s comment should be the motto for the progressive left. Sums it up perfectly.
jack:
Actually, Fauci did come forward and say why he had lied: because there weren’t enough masks to go around and the health care professionals needed them. So instead of saying that in the first place, he lied.
Fauci has been on every side of just about every issue in this entire fiasco.
As the joke goes Fauci is the only doctor that gives his own second opinions.
Nevada has been under a mask mandate for several weeks, because the governor tells us that is the only way to slow down the virus.
Today it was announced that NV Governor Sisolak has tested positive for COVID-19 — this despite the fact that he has assiduously followed his own mask mandate, as well as other social distancing mandates.
Remember in March how we were told that the economy was going to be shut down until the flattening of the curve? Yeah — that happened, but the shut down was maintained.
Two things: don’t believe the politicians, because they don’t understand what works and what doesn’t. And second: don’t believe the politicians, because they are more interested in controlling us than in understanding what works.
Bottom line: well, you can figure it out.
The hubris it takes to think anyone can stop, slow or whatever a virus is at the heart of all of this.
Virus gonna virus.
Fauci depicted.
https://www.thoughtco.com/using-your-finger-like-a-weathervane-3444499
He’s been in that job since about 1984, under six different administrations.
Cases are up, are they?
Or … are they?
“Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.”
– Elon Musk
It is also convenient politically to ban public protests that might show support for President Trump, because of public health you know. They just missed the first one, they won’t “allow” many more IMO.
I think Dems planned to reopen after the election. Either Trump would win and there’d be no point to a shutdown.
Or Trump would lose and Dems could claim credit for solving Covid.
But now, with things unsettled, maybe they want everyone back in their holding tank till things are under control.
I don’t think shutdowns are determined by medical facts. It’s all crowd control
I think Yancey Ward has catalogued the various and sundry reversals by public health officials.
We’ve also been watching as politicians listening to public health officials did arbitrary and perverse things.
1. Closing schools (the ratio of COVID deaths to non-COVID deaths has over the last nine months been 0.01).
2. Attempting to prohibit banal open air activities (while allowing buts-to-nuts public demonstrations not to mention rioting on behalf of approved causes).
3. Discharging COVID patients to nursing homes (while hospital overflow facilities provided by the federal government and private charities went unused)
4. Using the crisis as an excuse to distribute patronage to political clients and disrupt ordinary elections procedures.
Fauci may not be personally guilty of these things, but he’s working in a matrix where both supposed experts and politicians have been scamming around. Why does he fancy anyone will listen to him at this point?
Art,
And the grifters like Scott Gottlieb and Ezekiel Emmanuel are treated like gods.
This has shown a light on so many people in the medical profession that are nothing but political hacks and charlatans.
It is almost impossible to be too cynical in this world at this point in time.
I’ve been watching some YouTube clips of talk radio in the UK and from what they say the lockdown there is not being followed nearly as tightly as before. And as almost always these measures are enacted right when the peak is hitting then they claim their measures did it.
France, Britain, Germany, Italy, and Spain are having quite different experiences with this as we speak. Britain and Spain are suffering, but the escalation in the death toll has been a fraction of what it was last spring. OTOH, the slope of the curve in Italy just about matches that in March and April. As for the smaller countries, the escalation in case reports has in Sweden had only a faint echo in the escalation in the number of deaths; in Ireland, there has been no echo whatsoever.
If these waves go as they have been it will probably be peaking by the end of November and then decline very sharply. It has followed that pattern virtually everywhere from France, Italy, Belgium, NY/NJ to Florida no matter what NPIs are enacted. It’s beginning to look like Europe is past their peak on this wave at well below the death rates as the first time.
So it could be an entirely different situation in January.
Art,
It seems that with elderly and infirm the main death pool that the demographics of countries and regions are affecting death rates. That is one theory about why much of Africa has been hit less severely. While Europe and North America with a much larger group of elderly kindling for the fire are harder hit. Just a theory who knows.
The Eastern European countries were hit much lighter the first time and now are getting it worse.
Again, virus gonna virus, and to act like it can be stopped is arrogance at the utmost.
Ordering others around is fun because it reaffirms that you have power over others. It’s no fun having authority if you don’t wield it. It’s really fun when there are no consequences for being wrong.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
— H. L. Mencken
He’s a Horrible Little Man and needs to be derided as such.
I would recommend that female readers make a point of describing him as ‘Creepy’ when discussing Fauci with other women. Get a meme going.
May I suggest forwarding this Ivor Cummins video to anyone who is still hiding under their bed and screeching for lock downs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboEkVl9ooc
Passim, the Z Man this week has some thoughts on why we ought to mercilessly deride Covid Nazis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXaEGug7hLA
Zaphod,
Yes on the Ivor Cummins video. He focuses on Ireland but those same basic trends have happened almost everywhere.
Another major point he made is we came off a couple of soft flu seasons meaning that there was a large group of sick and elderly that, to put it bluntly, were living on borrowed time and were ripe to be taken by something.
“Creepy” isn’t going to fly. Moderate and liberal women love him.
@Shadow:
Sorry to break this to you, but women are herd animals and go with the flow. If you want to change female opinion, you need to change the flow… get them thinking that there’s already a pile-on to a new designated victim (Fauci) and they’re a day late to pick up on it (they really hate being late to catch trends).
Geddit?
Yes, I know there are admirable and inestimable women. Doubtless even some here 😛
That’s not the point. We are talking here at the populations / mass movements scale of abstraction.
The war we are in is not going to be won through logic and debates. Rhetoric and dirty propaganda tricks are the order of the day.
Don’t be a Bow Tie Cuckservative who is determined to lose gracefully by not lowering himself to the level of his enemies. They just laugh at us when die on the hill of our principles.
What I wonder about is why the medical community hasn’t been more aggressive on this. Here in Snohomish County it appears from the stats that about 85-90% of those testing positive have mild or no symptoms. 9% of cases result in hospitalization. We know who those people are. Mostly those over 70 years old. A few younger with comorbidities. Of those hospitalized, 25% have died. If you’re over 80, it’s 45%.
Knowing all this, my question is this, why won’t they treat the vulnerable populations before they get pneumonia and have to be admitted to the hospital? Here in Snohomish County you have to have an oximeter reading that indicates you have pneumonia before they will admit you to the hospital. There are now two approved monoclinal anti-body treatments available. One from Regeneron (POTUS got this one) and the other from Eli Lilly. The catch is that they must be administered before the patient develops pneumonia. Why are they not just routinely treating the vulnerable populations who test positive before they develop pneumonia? Why isn’t the medical community stepping up on this?
If the monoclonal anti-bodies are only 50% successful. that would reduce the number of hospitalized patients and deaths by a lot. It would put the virus in the same league as the flu. Life could return to normal except for the vulnerable population (of which I am one) who would continue to be cautious, but without the fear that the virus has a 45% chance of being a death sentence.
The vaccine is close, but making the anti-body treatment standard until the vaccine is delivered to a large number of people would allow us to get back to near normal a lot quicker. Where am I wrong?
Whenever I read the passage in the quote on tyrannies you referred to “a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims” I can’t help but suspect that it is a false, pretended sincerity. For example, do those wielders of sincere, good intentions follow their orders themselves? If they do not subscribe to them as well, one can be sure there is no sincerity to the tyranny at all. Even if they do, I am still suspicious.
C.S. Lewis famously wrote, “those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
H. L. Mencken explained the inner motivation of those who would torment us for our own good; “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”
— Daniel Webster (to whom I am distantly related)
The second sentence of the C.S. Lewis quote is:
“They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
The sincerity, pretended or not, is because they don’t really consider the rest of us to be human beings, and they only need convince each other of their good intentions.
Art+Deco,
“Why does he fancy anyone will listen to him at this point?”
He doesn’t expect us to listen or care if we don’t listen, it’s the liberal sheep, the left’s enabling “useful idiots” to whom he is addressing. And he’s comforted by the approving smiles of the leftist elite.
rcat,
“Ordering others around is fun because it reaffirms that you have power over others. It’s no fun having authority if you don’t wield it. It’s really fun when there are no consequences for being wrong.”
Indeed, though it’s less about fun and far more about an unwillingness to confront insecurity. The desire to control others is at base, about deep inner fear.
Zaphod,
“women are herd animals”
Not quite. People are herd animals. Except for the relative few who possess the wisdom to take a different fork in the road from the herd’s choice.
J.J.,
You’re not wrong. What’s obvious to you must be obvious to a large portion of the medical profession that deal with viral outbreaks. So, its intentional. Look for what there is to gain by ignoring the obvious and you’ll find your answer to why.
Hint: Individual doctors are part of a profession and are members of professional organizations. To contradict or defy those orgs places them at risk. Look what happened to the doctors who held a national press conference critical of the CDC…
Final clue; the CDC, FDA and Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are part of the medical bureaucracy. A Bureaucracy that has also experienced its March Through the Institutions.
“more than two-thirds of pediatricians, psychiatrists, and infectious disease specialists were registered Democrats.”
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2016/10/11/political-affiliation-doctors
Fauci is your typical mid level government bureaucrat. He is going to go along with the side which panders to him the most. He has been at the top of the minor part of an agency for years and this gives him a new arena in which to thrive. It is not lost on me, and possibly the majority, that most government and university experts are actually quite mediocre; I speak from experience. The commercial market provides much better, and this was likely proven by Trump offering the carrot to Pfizer and others, we know that government and university partnerships would take 10x as long if not ever. It is not that all government and university scientists/other are so bad, some individuals and parts are good, it is just that the incentive is wrong. Government adjudicates government R&D and academia adjudicates academia R&D, even though there are outside influences and adjudicators involved. For both government and academia publications are key, no matter how shit the STEM or how many holes you can pole through. The other factor is how an employee in both government and academia is permissible and agreeable! You cannot ask questions without being labelled well, umm, more like screamed at like those in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Point out faulty figures and suddenly you are vermin!
A vile little weasel.
I have another fear and that is these shutdowns are being pushed to stop the recounts. It takes a large number of people in an enclosed, secure place to do manual recounts. How can that happen if everyone is being told to shelter in place?
Sadly, that “independent spirit” in the UK drifted off a long time ago. This is a country that allows the police to brag about busting people for Facebook posts. It jailed a guy for taking video of defendants entering a courthouse. The police don’t have time to pursue Muslim rape gangs (when even some police are involved) but they have time to fly drones around looking for people walking out on the moors.
Yes, there was a brief spasm of patriotism at Brexit time. But Covid has turned Boris Johnson, once the hope of those who love freedom, into PM Lockdown. And don’t even get me started on the neoStalinists running Scotland.
1000 X This:
Brian Lovely wrote,
The second sentence of the C.S. Lewis quote is:
“They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
The sincerity, pretended or not, is because they don’t really consider the rest of us to be human beings, and they only need convince each other of their good intentions.
Not quite. People are herd animals. Except for the relative few who possess the wisdom to take a different fork in the road from the herd’s choice.
I think Zaphod is correct to a degree. Women tend to be more other-directed and susceptible to bandwagon effects. This tendency is helpful in some venues, troublesome in others. Joseph Adelson, a clinical psychologist who once wrote for Commentary, has said that Carol Gilligan’s work was (as social research) complete junk. I’d wager her general insight – that men and women have different modes of moral reasoning and the relationship between reasoning and action differs – actually is true even if she botched the job of substantiating it.
Fauci is your typical mid level government bureaucrat.
He isn’t mid-level, he’s high level.
Neo,
I would like to add to your C.S. Lewis quote, the second part of it; which is more than appropriate.
I took a look at the 1918 pandemic and was surprised to find in came in 3 waves each about 40-60 days apart; much like what we are now experiencing. In 1918 the first wave was relatively small, the second wave huge, and the third wave small again. What we are seeing in the “data” is a repeat of 1918 with one exception: we had a modest 1st wave, very large 2nd wave, and now the exception, a gigantic 3rd wave. This 3rd wave is a highly improbable event in that it exceeds the average daily increase of cases from the first 2 waves by 4 sigma, which makes it less than 0.1% probable. Yesterday I fit the curve and extrapolated it out to find that at the present rate of increase 20% of the population will be infected by late December. If this was April everyone would be dying. However, the percentage of serious cases is still decreasing and is now close to 0.4%; ie 99.6% of the “cases” don’t even warrant hospitalization.
So what’s happening? Here in Connecticut we are bombarded with ads, “Go get tested!!!!” And, people like the sheep they are obey. There are some serious articles showing that PCR test yields about 70% post-infection positives which are now being counted as new active cases. The problem I’m having is trying to separate out the PCR factor and multiple testing that is not necessary, from the actual new infections. It’s a moving target so the math is really not available to throw at it.
Given that hospitalizations and deaths are moderately up, I assume like 1918 we are in the 3rd and final wave. Testing! Testing! Testing! however is making this look like the final apocalypse.
Addendum: just looked at today’s data and serious cases went from 19k to over 32k in one day. They’ve been averaging about 300 increase per day…. someone’s playing some real games with the numbers.
One more note: the new cases yesterday hit 128000. For the last week week and half they gone from 40k to 60k to 90 k and now 128k….maybe hit half a mil by next week? This is really stretchering credibility. Like I said before, if this was truly real it should be like the scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail
I don’t see that as any different from people telling me that I can’t talk about Flat Earth Theory or that I should self censor my thoughts or change my style because it offends some nebulous anonymous group of people that may or may not exist.
People get more of what they feed. If they don’t want to end up in a (hell) reality where they are dominated by Dominion, Leftists, or Faucis, they can vote by their actions and intent.
All too often, humans have psychological defenses that prevent them from changing themselves, because they can’t see or know themselves, making it easier to displace or project their problems unto others. This does not solve the problem, it only pushes it around musical chairs style.
This is really stretchering credibility.
A minor glitch in their software.
He isn’t mid-level, he’s high level.
In my realm, he is no level, Art D. But that’s just my realm.
People are herd animals.
If I was Neo, GB, I might accuse you of insulting herds or animals or people.
Don’t be a Bow Tie Cuckservative who is determined to lose gracefully by not lowering himself to the level of his enemies. They just laugh at us when die on the hill of our principles.
I’m laughing at people who think I can die.
The difference between mortal and immortal is not one of principles or philosophy or red blue politics, but of the spirit.
I have commented before that the world took an Ebola response to a flu pandemic.
In other words, protect the vulnerable and have the healthy get infected (sick) and recover and build up the herd immunity. That is what is going to happen anyway. Once that first infected person got on a plane from Wuhan it was all over.
The initial shutdown to re-set our health care system was a good idea but then immediately we should have gone into phase I re-opening like S. Dakota and Florida. (Guess who I will support in 2024. Trump will have his second term.) Note that cases and hospitalizations have gone up but deaths have remained low. There are two reasons for that. One we know how to better treat it and two FARRS LAW has set in where the most vulnerable was killed off and then the infection goes through the rest of the population until the herd immunity is in place. That is what is happening now. They deferred the spread but spread it will. Inexorably and unstoppable.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/722901/farrs-law-of-pandemics-history-to-inform-policy/ (The Wikipedia page was altered from the last time I read it. The bell curve shows in the middle. The prior version had a left leaning bell curve as the most vulnerable was quickly killed then it goes down. I guess we could not be showing that to the masses.)
What is not widely reported because we can’t criticize the “sainted” Fauci as Tucker likes to call him is that after Congress banned “gain of function” virus research because our Level 4 Labs had accidental releases is that Fauci and his department funneled money to Wuhan Labs to continue this research. $2.7M worth in 2017. So he and the US Government contributed to the people who accidentally released this virus on the world. Imagine the fury of people if they knew this but then that would spoil the narrative of “orange man bad” so the media cannot report it.
I totally support the social distancing, washing the hands and frequent cleanings recommendations. One item that should have been stressed is to be outside and get sunlight. UV light kills viruses and builds up vitamin D levels which is showing to be effective. Masks are ineffectual outside of health care environments and that has been proven over and over. They are like talismans waved around like magic incantations against the evil CORONA. Like all pandemics, the critical variable is population density. Note that the West Coast never had the severity of cases like the East Coast.
But we see who are the tyrants. Who are the quasi-totalitarians power tripping almost giddy with power. It isn’t the Republicans. But as I tell people, you voted for it and as H.L. Menckin said we are getting it good and hard.
A lasting effect is that our “elites” like the rotten aristocracies of pre-revolutionary France and Russia will have lost more of their legitimacy. Note that before the final revolutions, there was a series of revolts most notably 1905 in Russia. Pressure on the system kept building and building until the final revolt.
Censorship now as then is failing. Note how people are escaping the FANG information gulag with Parler and Rumble. Informal communication networks are being spread. Big Media, Big Education and Big Technology are losing their gatekeeping functions on information flows. People know they are being lied to and are tuning them out. Now with the fraud in this election there will be a further diminution of authority from our supposed betters. Fox News is finding this out now.
So where does it go from here? The story ending is TBD but I believe that it will end up resolving itself rather peacefully as we can still vote out these tyrants the results of this election not withstanding. We are alert to it now. Only through mass cheating and rules relaxation did it work. Like the ballot harvesting in CA in 2018 it only works once. We will prevail and little tyrants will be shuffled off. Until then be resolute and keep involved in the process.
Kristi Noem will not lock down South Dakota.
https://www.insider.com/qanon-conspiracy-theory-after-the-trump-election-lost-defeat-plan-2020-11
https://qalerts.app/
They are getting afraid.
Surprise, surprise; look up Fauci’s background and you find he is a lifetime employee of the Federal govt; basically another bureaucrat.
Guess you all saw Elon Musk’s comments on being tested 4 times in one day and he received 2 positive and 2 negative coronavirus test results; same tester, same technique, same everything as regards who and how test was administered and results determined.
No mystery that ALL tests for ALL diseases have a false positive/negative rate, but what Musk reports is odd.
Or is it?
Not sure what to make of it.
Is it just a “one off” (like flipping a fair coin and getting 6 heads in a row- a low probability event, but certainly a non-zero probability event) ??
Anyway, something to ponder.
Phony! That’s what Fauci is – a real phony.
One image of Fauci that I will not forget is, shortly after he was scolding Americans to wear masks, he was photographed sitting in a ball park with his mask tucked under his chin while squeezed between two other people.
When called out on it he claimed that he was taking a drink. Ha! Like the virus doesn’t infect those taking a drink!? or it doesn’t infect those sitting next to those taking a drink!?
So, in my opinion, he is nothing but a phony – albeit, a phony with some power. And that is the worst kind of phony there is.
J.J.-
I reluctantly point out that life is always fatal.
The median life expectancy of nursing home inhabitants is 1.3 years. These people are out of gas, and major efforts to prolong their lives are largely futile; thus their high COVID fatality rates in hospitals. An old British medical saying was “Pneumonia is the aged pensioner’s friend”.
I am not being an Ezekiel Emanuel here, however. That man is evil. He would deny care to all age 75 and older. An Obama buddy.
I expect to die. I expect you do also, not being a fool. The amelioration of suffering is the key. There is no point in fearing death, especially after a well-lived life.
The large majority of Docs in your WA county are likely employees of health care systems, and are therefore not independent practitioners. The administrators rule, not the Docs. Your observations, however rational, will fall upon deaf administrative ears, because individual patient outcomes are meaningless to them, unless, of course, it is a loved one of their own who becomes ill.
A few cheerful points: I drove from Ohio to California this summer, and I saw nobody wearing masks except where they had to. In my own hometown, nobody wears masks except at Kroger (meh, Kroger, what are you going to say?). I went to the veterinarian today, no masks. It looks like people are just ignoring the panic now.
Cicero, thanks for the explanation. I had intuited it, but wanted to hear it from someone experienced like you.
So few doctors are still independent businessmen now. My doctor fought it, but finally became a part of a hospital system five years ago. He still does his best to deliver care, but is constrained by the “system.” Essentially, our healthcare is now partially bureaucratized. The ultimate bureaucratization being Medicare for all.
Fauci has been a part of bureaucracy his entire career. In his mind, he no doubt has good intentions, but his thinking is constrained by the barriers every bureaucracy erects around itself. Double blind studies are the gold standard, but a pandemic is the equivalent of war. Many advances in battlefield trauma treatments have been the result of doctors and medics thinking outside the box in actual battlefield conditions. What was a fatal wound in Vietnam is now survivable. We would not be where we are in relation to treatments and vaccines had not Trump forced the FDA and other bureaucracies to cut the red tape and think outside the box. For which he has earned their undying hatred. And Fauci is still revered by his bureaucratic friends and lovers of central government control. It is to weep.
Tests can have false positives and false negatives, but the medical profession measures true positives (sensitivity) and true negatives (specificity).
Overview:
https://www.verywellhealth.com/sensitivity-and-specificity-in-medical-testing-overview-4777799
Here is a good note about PCR tests, which are considered the best, gold standard tests. Almost no false positives. With explanations on how the virus is amplified in some number of cycles, like 40 in the MIT case.
https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/11/pcr-test-result
The Rapid Antigen Test my wife uses in Slovakia is supposed to have about 99.6% specificity. Meaning in about 1000 people who are negative, there will be 4 who are false positive. When 20,000 folk in our suburb were tested, 67 were positive, they’re now all in 10 day quarantine. With a good chance they were false positives.
Using limited tests, even if cheap, on mostly healthy people uses up Health Care workers’ very limited time.
It’s a small scandal that there is isn’t more info available on the different tests, as well as more expensive PCR (multi-day) testing of those with cheap RAT (antigen) positive tests.
Fauci should be fired, but like most CYA top
bureaucratsboot-lickers, he’s most likely to stay on, now.Tom Grey,
It’s way more than a ‘small scandal’ that there isn’t more info. It’s rarely even asked and when it is they don’t answer it. If we are going all in on ‘cases, cases, cases!’ the least they should do is be transparent about the testing.
A fearful people are easily tyrannized. That is really what the Wuhan virus thing and official responses are about. It has the happy[sarc] effect of being anti-capitalist as well.
I’ve posted this before, and do so again, since Fauci is our nominal topic. He finished medical school in 1967, did a two-year internship, no residency training in any specialty, and went right to work at NIH, where he does no research as director of the Infectious Diseases institute. No Board certification, but he is touted by MSM as the nation’s “leading expert on infectious disease.” There is in fact a certification Board in Infectious disease, but one is only eligible to take that exam IF one is Board-certified in Internal Medicine first.
Fauci oversees the dispersal of about $6 Bill of grant monies each year, including a $6 mill grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2013. US money to support Chicomms, sweet!
Fauci is a paper-pushing Deep Stater. Why does he have a full-time Federal job at age 79? He is not a J.Edgar Hoover with blackmail data on many, is he?
Worst, he only, repeat, only offers opinions, never any facts.
I am continually amazed at the near-total level of control over so many politicians and “health professionals” that has occurred during the scamdemic. How on earth have the powers that be been able to exert such universal and complete control over so many in so many different jurisdictions? What is the glue that is holding this effort together? Will we ever know?
I am Sparticus on November 14, 2020 at 8:46 am:
“…should have been stressed is to be outside and get sunlight. UV light kills viruses…”
While being outside is probably a good thing if there is a breeze to disperse the potential virus “aerosol” that might be “hovering” overhead, I understand that general sunlight is mostly UVA and UVB bands with limited disinfecting capability, while the more disinfecting UVC band is mostly absorbed by the ozone layer. But the limited far UVC has been shown to be an effective or promising disinfecting source via lamps, etc.: https://www.healthline.com/health/does-uv-kill-coronavirus
Consider all those Florida beach parties … and how they are presumed to have helped spread the pandemic, not contain it (but who knows really on that!? probably mostly non-beach night time activities!!)
Did Neo have a posting on this UV topic a few weeks ago? The memory is the first to go, … after all of those other things that I have forgotten already…”
Fauci oversees the dispersal of about $6 Bill of grant monies each year, including a $6 mill grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2013. US money to support Chicomms, sweet!
Fauci is a paper-pushing Deep Stater. Why does he have a full-time Federal job at age 79? He is not a J.Edgar Hoover with blackmail data on many, is he?
It used to be this kind of info was only known by conspiracy land people. I wonder what changed in the few years.
For those here that were on the “vaccines are always safe” camp, or “autism can’t be affected rate wise by vaccines”, Fauci also has a financial patent profit from vaccines he is pushing.
Well this morning this charlatan has informed that Christmas isn’t going to happen this year. It still amazes me that these people feel that it is their role to tell people what they can and can’t do.
Griffin:
It amazes me more that Americans have turned into sheep, accepting Democratic wolves disguised as sheepdogs as their friends and protectors.
I am not being an Ezekiel Emanuel here, however. That man is evil. He would deny care to all age 75 and older. An Obama buddy.
See Steve Sailer’s skewer of Emmanuel. Sailer’s interpretation of Emmanuel’s advocacy was that Zeke’s had his nose out of joint that his difficult father lived so long. (The man died last year at age 92).