We were right and Anthony Fauci was wrong. The person I never expected to hear say this, however, was Anthony Fauci.
Fauci finally admitted to the nation this weekend what has been obvious to everyone, except the most hysteria-prone slice of the population, since last summer: that the pandemic is now endemic. That means it’s here to stay, no matter what we do, so let’s learn to live with it. There is no point to the insane restrictions people insist on like latter-day Puritans denouncing each other for failing to carry out the prescribed rites to ward off the Devil.
“This is not going to be eradicated, and it’s not going to be eliminated,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week.” “And what’s going to happen is that we’re going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk that they want to take.”
Great! But what has changed? This is exactly the message Fauci needed to deliver to the people . . . approximately a year ago.
Let’s talk next steps. What’s he going to do to make up for all of the needless misery he caused? I’m not asking him to think like his fellow Italian Marc Antony and fall on his sword, so let’s turn our minds to the moderate and reasonable options. How many days is Fauci volunteering to place himself in stocks set up on the National Mall so that we can all pelt him with rotten eggs? One day for every completely wrong thing he ever said would be fair, but then he’d be there all summer. So let’s be charitable and just make it a long holiday weekend. --->READ MORE HERE
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The biggest problem in public-health policy is inconsistency. Which is why it doesn’t make sense for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be extending its mask mandate on planes, buses and trains while rolling back Title 42, which has done far more to protect our country (as well as the people entering it) from disease than a flimsy cloth mask ever has.
As we enter an important phase of learning to live with the virus, focusing mainly on severe disease and protecting the most vulnerable, it is time for all mandatory strategies except Title 42 to be removed.
The COVID pandemic was starting back in March 2020 when the CDC made the decision to invoke Title 42 to allow the timely expulsion of some migrants. The United States lacked sufficient immigrant holding facilities that could provide appropriate social distancing and ventilation. We didn’t have any treatments or vaccines, and we were just learning the extent of this emerging threat.
Remember, Title 42 is a public-health tool intended to help protect the health safety of those crossing the border, US border personnel and US communities. In 2020, a growing number of illegal immigrants had active COVID-19 and served as a potential source of spread to all three groups. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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