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Well, no wonder. His TV time is a fraction of what it was six months ago.
At least we finally have an answer to the question of how we’ll know officially when the pandemic is over, though. Answer: When there’s too much else going on in the news for CNN to devote a segment to interviewing Fauci.
Before you celebrate, note that he reiterates here that he won’t feel comfortable leaving until we’re through the “pandemic” phase of COVID. And he warned just yesterday that a new surge might be on the way.
If the pandemic never ends then he can never retire, right?
“From what I know about human nature, which I think is pretty much a lot, people are kind of done with COVID,” Fauci said…
And if the U.S. does continue to make its way back toward normal times, Fauci himself has a personal choice to consider. At 81 years old, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is “certainly” thinking about retirement.
“I have said that I would stay in what I’m doing until we get out of the pandemic phase and I think we might be there already, if we can stay in this,” Fauci said, referring to the falling cases and hospitalizations in the U.S.
“I can’t stay at this job forever. Unless my staff is gonna find me slumped over my desk one day. I’d rather not do that,” he said, laughing.
I’m surprised to hear him say that he knows a lot about human nature because the thrust of this long WaPo profile of him from January was that he’s disoriented by the partisan polarization over COVID, describing himself at one point as having been “shaken” by it. “There is no truth,” he said of the public debate. “There is no fact.” He lamented “the almost incomprehensible culture of lies” around the virus and the vaccine before admitting, “There’s no diagnosis for this. I don’t know what is going on.” --->READ MORE HERE
Federal medical czar Anthony Fauci is considering retirement, as potential changes to the composition of Congress stand to complicate things for him.
“I have said that I would stay in what I’m doing until we get out of the pandemic phase, and I think we might be there already,” Fauci told ABC’s Brad Mielke in a Friday podcast, according to the Post Millennial.
“If we can stay in this, then we’re at a point where I feel that we are done with this, but I don’t have any plans right now to go away, but you never know.”
Fauci, 81, was more direct when Mielke asked him if he’d thought about retiring.
“I certainly have, because I have to do it sometime. I can’t stay at this job forever, unless my staff find me slumped over at my desk one day. I’d rather not do that.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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