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2020-11-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
‘A whole lot of hurt': Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response
[Washington Compost] President Trump’s repeated assertions the United States is "rounding the turn" on the novel coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading into a long and potentially deadly winter with an unprepared government unwilling to make tough choices.

"We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation," Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. "All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly."

Fauci, a leading member of the government’s coronavirus response, said the United States needed to make an "abrupt change" in public health practices and behaviors. He said the country could surpass 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day and predicted rising deaths in the coming weeks. He spoke as the nation set a new daily record Friday with more than 98,000 cases. As hospitalizations increase, deaths are also ticking up, with more than 1,000 reported Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the total to more than 230,000 since the start of the pandemic, according to health data analyzed by The Washington Post.

Fauci’s blunt warnings come as Trump has rallied in states and cities experiencing record surges in infections and hospitalizations in a last-ditch effort to convince voters he has successfully managed the pandemic. He has held maskless rallies with thousands of supporters, often in violation of local health mandates.

Even as new infections climb in 42 states, Trump has downplayed the virus or mocked those who take it seriously. "Covid-19, covid, covid, covid," he said during one event, lamenting that the news media gives it too much attention. In another rally, he baselessly said that U.S. doctors record more deaths from covid-19, the disease the coronavirus causes, than other nations because they get more money.

"I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say, ’I’m sorry but everybody dies of covid,’ " Trump said Friday at a rally in Waterford Township, Mich., without offering any evidence.

By contrast, former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala D. Harris have consistently worn masks in public, and have held socially distanced events. When two people around Harris tested positive for the coronavirus in October, she canceled travel for several days. Asked about the difference between their approaches, Fauci said Biden’s campaign "is taking it seriously from a public health perspective." Trump, Fauci said, is "looking at it from a different perspective." He said that perspective was "the economy and reopening the country."

Fauci, who once took a starring role in the response and briefed the president almost every day as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, described a disjointed response as cases surge. Several current and former senior administration officials said the White House is almost entirely focused on a vaccine, even though experts warn it is unlikely to be a silver bullet that ends the pandemic immediately since it will take months under the best of circumstances to inoculate tens of millions of people to achieve herd immunity.

Officials told governors on a call Friday that they hoped to begin distributing a vaccine by the end of the year, giving some specific guidance on how states would receive their first doses. Fauci focused on the rise in cases, according to people familiar with the call....

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Dr. Fauci also said he has "real problems" with Dr. Scott Atlas, a new advisor to President Trump who has in many ways supplanted Dr. Fauci as the president's go-to advisor.

White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement that Dr. Fauci's comments were "unacceptable".

"It’s unacceptable and breaking with all norms for Dr. Fauci, a senior member of the President’s Coronavirus Taskforce and someone who has praised President Trump’s actions throughout this pandemic, to choose three days before an election to play politics," White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement.

Deere added that Fauci was "choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known by praising the president’s opponent —
exactly what the American people have come to expect from The Swamp.
" Dr. Fauci has praised Joe Biden's campaign for allowing its candidate to sit in the basement, while claiming President Trump is tackling the outbreak from a different perspective, one focused on "the economy".

Additionally, "Dr. Fauci may have just admitted that he is afraid the cure will be worse than the disease and that unlike the president he has no confidence in the American people to make the best choice for themselves armed with CDC best practices," Deere said.
Posted by Clem 2020-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Lockdown fanatics kill far more than the virus.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-11-02 03:15||   2020-11-02 03:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I have "real problems" with Dr. Fauci. In the beginning of this mess he discouraging the wearing of masks by the general public since he knew there would be a severe shortage of masks at that time. Dishonest! He was in a prime position to anticipate that problem -- since pandemics have been predicted for many years now -- by advocating a massive increase in warehoused PPE by the federal govt. That never happened because the people like Fauci did nothing.
In addition he discouraged using HCQ at a time when little was known about it. His position got massive media coverage months ago. The next day during a live interview with a talk show host, Fauci admitted that if he would use HCQ to prevent a severe case of COVID-19 since at the time doctors had nothing else to offer. This Fauci contraction got zero coverage by the media, and has apparently been disappeared.
Posted by Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-02 03:26||   2020-11-02 03:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Coronavirus: ‘Futile and immoral’ to seek herd immunity, says Sweden’s chief epidemiologist
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-11-02 03:41||   2020-11-02 03:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Viruses are very small. If you can smell odors (which you can through most masks) — like tobacco smoke, perfume, etc., the COVID-19 virus can pass through that mask.

You cannot stop or a eliminate the COVID-19 virus with quarantine-type practices and orders. A virus with such high viral loads (titers), recalcitrant environmental persistence, and transmissibility factors can’t be stopped with public health and welfare environmental management. IMO, inevitably ALL of the USA population will contract COVID-19 at some point (however this is less and less of a concern, since the ORF8 is deleting from viral strains — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104525).

The only real choice ever was to slow the curve enough so as to buy the time needed to stand up resources.

To buy the time necessary to stand up resources, the FDA, CDC, NIH, etc., and their dead-enders (like “the Fauch”) served a very critical and useful purpose that has now been outlived.
Posted by cingold 2020-11-02 06:34||   2020-11-02 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Thankfully, the COVID-19 virus is non-lethal to the great majority of otherwise healthy people infected. Exceptions to this general rule would be presence of ORF8 (immune evasive) COVID-19 viral strains, or co-infections with influenza. For the general populace, the greater of these two concerns will be influenza--since no research has been done about how an influenza vaccine program is unlikely to be sufficiently protective under the circumstances, and that any influenza vaccine will likely also promote the same kind of ACE2 proliferation that makes a co-infection with the COVID-19 virus so dangerous.

It would be ironic, wouldn’t it, to have a nationwide influenza vaccination program create the very ACE2 proliferation conditions the vaccination program is supposed to prevent (all in the name of COVID-19 and “save the children“—TM)?
Posted by cingold 2020-11-02 06:39||   2020-11-02 06:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Fauci said Biden’s campaign "is taking it seriously from a public health perspective." Trump is "looking at it from a different perspective." the economy and reopening the country."

I don't disagree with either statement, and they are not mutually exclusive. Obviously, some people like Trump's perspective.
Posted by Bobby 2020-11-02 07:53||   2020-11-02 07:53|| Front Page Top

#7 2020 has been a real bad year for "experts" like Fauxi.

Just another example of a power tripping deep-state slug.
Posted by AlanC 2020-11-02 07:54||   2020-11-02 07:54|| Front Page Top

#8 To covidians, the only thing that matters is putting whatever panic move is in vogue this week ahead of every other consideration.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-11-02 08:32||   2020-11-02 08:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks in advance, MM. I am stealing your quote. Dead on!!
Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-11-02 08:43||   2020-11-02 08:43|| Front Page Top

#10 I find it interesting that the net effect of COVID and the COVID control measures is to reduce the net monthly deaths in the US by about 2000.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-11-02 09:44||   2020-11-02 09:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Trump campaign stops have seen MASSIVE crowds since he recovered from Covid and returned to Campaigning.

So why aren't they super-spreader events? I've only seen one claim of such from a media that would love to make such claims. Even the lefty media knows it won't fly without charts showing the spikes and those haven't happened in any correlation to Trump events.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-02 11:12||   2020-11-02 11:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Officials told governors on a call Friday that they hoped to begin distributing a vaccine by the end of the year, giving some specific guidance on how states would receive their first doses. Fauci focused on the rise in cases, according to people familiar with the call...

Of course he did. His fifteen minutes of fame are coming to an end.

Fauxi is proving once again the Democrat Party is the party of fear, failure, doom, gloom and pessimism. The real "losers and suckers" are Democrats.

The purpose of the Chinese bio-weapon and the mass media fear campaign that accompanied it was to shut down America's economy and to prevent mass rallies that help Trump win election. It plays right into the hands of leftist control freaks.

But Republicans are the party of optimism, courage and success. They will not be cowed. They will go back to work and continue to attend Trump rallies so they win.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-11-02 11:18||   2020-11-02 11:18|| Front Page Top

#13 RJ, some of the media called ACB's swearing in a super-spreader event. We never got the tsunami of deaths that Sturgis was supposed to cause either.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-11-02 11:53||   2020-11-02 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by Clem 2020-11-02 11:54||   2020-11-02 11:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Seven different 'disease forms' identified in mild COVID-19
Now, it is a matter of implementing these findings and using them for the development of highly-effective COVID-19 vaccines."

Rather more obvious is to get everyone under 50 one of these mild strains and skip the cost and risks of a vaccine totally.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-11-02 12:27||   2020-11-02 12:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Kamal-Ho's a Super Spreader
I'm Willie Brown, and I approve this message!
Posted by Vernal Omeretch1791 2020-11-02 13:28||   2020-11-02 13:28|| Front Page Top

#17 Go to your room, Vernal.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-11-02 13:56||   2020-11-02 13:56|| Front Page Top

#18 If/when Trump wins, I'm burning my mask.
Posted by Regular joe 2020-11-02 17:08||   2020-11-02 17:08|| Front Page Top

#19 “Rather more obvious is to get everyone under 50 one of these mild strains and skip the cost and risks of a vaccine totally.”

It looks like that is exactly the kind of COVID-19 infection released especially in China, but also generally in other Asian countries. The USA appears to have been gifted with much more lethal varieties, including a high number of ORF8 strains.
Posted by cingold 2020-11-02 17:19||   2020-11-02 17:19|| Front Page Top

#20 Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers butt blunt assessment.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-11-02 19:22||   2020-11-02 19:22|| Front Page Top

#21 Looking forward to seeing this man be fired. Out of cannon. Into the sun.
Posted by Iblis 2020-11-02 20:39||   2020-11-02 20:39|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Clem 2020-11-02 21:54||   2020-11-02 21:54|| Front Page Top

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