Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned Americans this week that they could soon face additional COVID-19 lockdown measures should a new strain of the virus cause case numbers to increase.
Fauci, who also serves as an adviser to President Biden, said the BA.2 subvariant could soon increase the rate of infections in America. He suggested that Americans should "be able to pivot" back and forth between a more common way of life and the measures that were taken in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus at the height of the pandemic.
"We can't just say, 'We're done. We're going to move on.' We've got to be able to be flexible because we're dealing with a dynamic situation," he added, noting the new variant to be less fatal than the Omicron variant. "The overall mortality is actually down. It’s a very interesting situation where the cases are going up, but it does not, at this point in time, appear to be any degree of severity."
Well I am pretty sure that Americans can, at some point, just say were are done and moving on. There is only so much yanking back and forth that people will stand for and with the complete and total loss of all credibility, it's really not Dr Fauci's place to tell Americans what they can and cannot do.
Couple that with the idea that another Covid surge would most certainly doom the Democrats in November, it is almost inconceivable that Americans will allow Covid to become another major deal this summer. Republicans never liked the Nazi like totalitarian Government "mandates" and will be hard to push back. Democrat may enjoy licking boots and following orders, they will not likely want to doom their Party's chances even more in the upcoming midterms.
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explanation that liberals can't, or don't want, to understand:
While you were distracted by Russia-Ukraine, the Gov. of Canada published data confirming the Fully Vaccinated now account for 9 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/19/distracted-russia-canada-confirmed-9-in-10-covid-deaths-triple-vaccinated/
same kind or results that Germany and Israel have released
but the CDC keeps putting out misinformation
political "science"
Couple that with the idea that another Covid surge would most certainly doom the Democrats in November, it is almost inconceivable that Americans will allow Covid to become another major deal this summer.
Do not be surprised if we return to mass lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, and every other thing we 'enjoyed' for two years for nothing, with a surge in the newly-discovered Electorus Interruptus variant in the September-October timeframe.
The mid-term prospects for the left are horrifying, with some predicting a loss of 100+ seats in the House. 30 House dems have already 'retired' with more to come as the prospects of those who remain worsen.
All they know how to do is steal as we've seen in 2020. If their only potential path to victory is to double down on the steal, double down they will.
I predict Fauci Mengele sticks around until the mid-term result is clear, and if a GOP victory is inevitable, the little worm retires.
Biden plan falls on deaf ears.
"In February, while announcing their friendship had “no limits”, the two countries struck a 10-year agreement for Russia to supply 100 million tonnes of crude oil to northwestern China.Mar 10, 2022"
Deaf NATO Ears in Germany especially.
"Germany imports more than half of its energy. The country largely imports its oil from Russia, Norway and the United Kingdom. Germany is also the world's largest importer of natural gas. The largest gas imports come from the Netherlands, Norway, and Russia via the Nord Stream."
Deaf NATO Ears in France.
Oh how weak the French are .
"France wants to end Russia gas and oil imports by 2027."
I think it is so useless to discuss Fauci and the whole matter of Covid -- so badly botched by Trump -- that I will just keep posting on the thread down about a subject now far more important.
Ukraine.
No, on second thought I will add this here too:
A Tenuous Balance in Confronting Russia
March 19, 2022 at 11:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“In the first weeks of the first major European land war of the 21st century, the United States has sent tank-killing weapons to Ukrainian forces, but not fighter jets.
~~~It is equipping embattled Ukrainian troops with lightweight ‘kamikaze’ attack drones, but not, at least in an obvious way, conducting an aggressive cyberwar to degrade Russia’s technological advantage,” the New York Times reports.
“The White House will commit no American or NATO planes to the skies above Ukraine, a move American officials fear could risk turning a regional war into a global conflagration, but it is providing Ukraine with missiles that could accomplish the same task of destroying Russian aircraft.
“Such is the tenuous balance the Biden administration has tried to maintain as it seeks to help Ukraine lock Russia in a quagmire without inciting a broader conflict with a nuclear-armed adversary or cutting off potential paths to de-escalation.”
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USA Today:
Lindsey Graham called for Putin’s assassination. Even discussing it brings danger to US, experts say.
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Putin Isn’t Ready for Talks with Zelensky
11:00 am
“President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called publicly on Saturday for direct negotiations with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, but a senior Turkish official said that Mr. Putin was not ready for such talks,”
the New York Times reports.
The Turkish official said that Mr. Putin no longer advocated replacing Mr. Zelensky but “now accepts the reality of Zelensky as the leader of the Ukrainian people, whether he likes it or not.”
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Hmmm. Could that be at least a small degree of progress? I don't pretend to know.
My comment, based on commentary concerning Germany's change in outlook on Public Radio:
Like a majority of Americans, a majority of Germans are now saying they are firmly willing to make financial sacrifices for the sake of confronting Russian aggression.
Germany is now strongly moving toward taking on a role it has been shirking -- taking on responsibility as as major European power not only in matters of finance but in matters of militarily resisting Russian aggression.
Associated Press
Denied easy victory, Russia presses reduced goals in Ukraine
Associated Press
March 19, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The signs are abundant of how Ukraine frustrated Vladimir Putin’s hopes for a swift victory, and how Russia's military proved far from ready for the fight.
Russia has lost hundreds of tanks, many left charred or abandoned along the roads, and its death toll is on a pace to outstrip that of the country’s previous military campaigns.
Yet more than three weeks into the war, with Putin's initial aim of an easy regime change in Ukraine long gone, Russia’s military still has a strong hand. With their greater might and stockpile of city-flattening munitions, Russian forces can fight on for whatever the Russian president may plan next, whether leveraging a negotiated settlement or brute destruction, military analysts warn.
Despite all the determination of Ukraine’s people, all the losses among Russia’s forces, and all the errors of Russia’s leaders, there is no sign that the war will soon be over. Even if he fails to take control of the country, Putin can keep up the punishing attacks on its cities and people.
“His instinct will be always to double down, because he’s got himself into a dreadful mess, a huge strategic blunder,” said Michael Clarke, former head of the British-based Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank.
“And I don’t think it’s in his character to try to retrieve that, except by carrying on, going forward,” he said.
Putin’s forces in Ukraine are waging Russia’s largest, most complex combined military campaign since taking Berlin in 1945. His initial objective, which he announced in a television address on Feb. 24 as the invasion began, was to “demilitarize” Ukraine and save its people from “neo-Nazis," a false description of Ukraine’s government, which is led by a Jewish president.
Fatefully, Putin underestimated the national pride and battlefield skills that Ukrainians have built up over the past eight years of battling Russian-backed separatists in the country's east.
At the start, Russians thought “they would install, you know, some pro-Russian government and call it a day and declare victory,” said Dmitry Gorenburg, a researcher on Russia’s security at the Virginia-based CNA think tank. “That was sort of Plan A, and as near as we can tell, they didn’t really have a Plan B.”
The article continues, and it is very informative.
India, Germany China , France all buying Russia gas n oil.
You like dictators despite being libertarian
Appearing on CNN with host Frederika Whitfield, former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev trashed the Donald Trump-like rally Russian President Vladimir Putin put on this past week as he tried to pump up support for his unprovoked Ukraine invasion.
Kozyrev, who served as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation under President Boris Yeltsin, talked about his first-hand knowledge about Putin and suggested the current Russian president isn't interested in starting a nuclear war, before turning to the rally that featured Putin on a stage surrounded by cheering Russians.
"He wants to silence people inside Russia and deafen these people so they don't hear, make them blind to what happens outside," Kozyrev began which prompted the CNN host to jump in.
"I want to see that picture again of Putin in the stadium, you've seen the images if you can't see it right now, in this stadium, and these thousands of people who have filled the stadium," she began as a clip of the rally ran on-screen. "Are they all brainwashed? Is it that they all are in agreement with Putin? Or is there some other motivation for being there in these numbers, waving the flag and cheering on Putin in the middle of this invasion?"
"According to sources from Russia, many of them disagree, many," the former diplomat replied. "But they are either intimidated and that's his strategy; his strategy towards the west, his strategy towards Ukraine and his strategy towards the Russian people proper is to intimidate."
"They are intimidated, some of them, though, are paid for that and some of them, probably considerable amount of them, are really brainwashed," he continued. "That's why the sanctions, even if they hit the population, are important because it should be a wakeup call, sometimes -- some kind of shock therapy for those people to wake up to what really is happening."
While unpatriotic KanDim roots for Russia,
a truck carrying Russian troops crashes, its doors blown open by a rocket-propelled grenade,
foreign-supplied drones target Russian command posts,
Orthodox priests in trailing vestments parade Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag in defiance of their Russian captors in the occupied city of Berdyansk.
I put the entire article starting at 12:24 in the next thread down.
James. He actually said this!
The real damage is being done to infrastructure, commercial property, and residential homes. If the Russians are not blowing up a mall or hospital, the Ukrainians are blowing up their own bridges and highways to prevent Russian advances.
The Russians are blowing up malls, hospitals, apartment complexes, especially food storage facilities to starve the Ukrainians.
He actually has lost his head
COVID CASES USA 7-DAY AVG
29,095 MAR 18 2022
54,687 MAR 18 2021
DEATHS 7-DAY AVG
914 MAR 18 2022
1,268 MAR 18 2021
Reduced to hold face lies.
Pffttttt
"Honest, decent, truthful Rev.March 19, 2022 at 12:35 PM
While unpatriotic KanDim roots for Russia,"
Nope.
Roger, never knows a thing.
"storage facilities to starve the Ukrainians."
Russia has done this before.
Biden had Harris in before the war started, she failed to stop it.
It's not over yet and it's not his fault but you really hate him because he is awesome and you hate it.
GENEVA, March 18 (Reuters) - A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Friday that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic was a long way off, citing a rise in cases in its latest weekly data.
The U.N. health agency has previously said that the acute phase of the pandemic could end this year but it would depend on how quickly we meet its target to vaccinate 70% of the population in each country, among other factors.
Asked by a journalist at a Geneva media briefing about the timing of the pandemic's end, Margaret Harris said it was "far from over". "We are definitely in the middle of the pandemic," she added.
After more than a month of decline, COVID cases started to increase around the world last week, the WHO said, with lockdowns in Asia and China's Jilin province battling to contain an outbreak. read more
A combination of factors was causing the increases, including the highly transmissible Omicron variant and its cousin the BA.2 sub-variant, and the lifting of public health and social measures, the WHO said.
You want to prosecute him.
Because you really are nuts
OPEC
Is under performing by design.
They pump 1 million less barrels per day.
Roger, exactly how did Biden reverse his day #1 policies that attacked US Oil production?
Got specifics?
You brought the topic here , then ran away.
https://www.reuters.com/world/covid-19-pandemic-is-far-over-who-official-2022-03-18/
GENEVA, March 18 (Reuters) - A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Friday that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic was a long way off, citing a rise in cases in its latest weekly data.
The U.N. health agency has previously said that the acute phase of the pandemic could end this year but it would depend on how quickly we meet its target to vaccinate 70% of the population in each country, among other factors.
Asked by a journalist at a Geneva media briefing about the timing of the pandemic's end, Margaret Harris said it was "far from over". "We are definitely in the middle of the pandemic," she added.
After more than a month of decline, COVID cases started to increase around the world last week, the WHO said, with lockdowns in Asia and China's Jilin province battling to contain an outbreak. read more
A combination of factors was causing the increases, including the highly transmissible Omicron variant and its cousin the BA.2 sub-variant, and the lifting of public health and social measures, the WHO said.
You want to punch him, like in grade school..
Because you really are nuts
The South’s health care system is crumbling under Covid-19. Enter Tennessee.
By the time Covid-19 hit Haywood County, it was too late to prepare.
The rural county in the Tennessee delta, near the Mississippi River, had its health care system ground down in the years leading up to the pandemic: Ever since the 84-year-old Haywood County Community Hospital closed its doors in 2014, the numbers of doctors and other health care professionals dwindled. Residents who once were on a first-name basis with their care professionals were left to book appointments at facilities miles from where they’d raised their families and grown older.
Haywood County — with its flat land and fertile soil, generations of proud farmers but low per capita income of about $22,000 — is something of a poster child for rural America. It’s also a prime example of the decline of rural health care — and how rural areas are suffering disproportionately in the worst public health crisis in a century.
Some of the biggest disparities in the Covid-19 crisis aren’t just among red states and blue states, or Black, white and Latino populations; they’re between rural and urban communities.
We would constantly make appointments for people for mammograms or diagnostic tests or whatever, and, you know, two weeks later, we’d get a note that the patient never showed,” recalled Pettigrew. “And you never know whether you missed a breast cancer or whatever because they just didn’t go.”
Then the pandemic hit.
“In the case of Covid, we faced some of the same challenges,” Pettigrew said. “In our rural area, there are a lot of people that don’t even have transportation, so they rely on somebody else to take them places, bring them back. If they don’t have something like that, a lot of times, they just kind of ignore their situation, and it gets worse and worse and worse until they’ve gone beyond the point of return. And I suspect there were a lot of people that got Covid that didn’t do anything about it until they got extremely sick and then, unfortunately, a lot of them didn’t pull through it.”
Haywood County, tinted blue in most elections, has a middling vaccination rate by national standards, but it was still higher than surrounding counties. Nonetheless, the number of people who died of Covid in Haywood County is in the 97th percentile nationally — well above many nearby counties. Overall, rural communities have seen almost twice as many deaths per capita as metropolitan ones.
Pettigrew survived his own bout with Covid-19, after a harrowing experience at the nearest hospital, in Jackson, Tenn., where doctors and nurses were frantically battling Covid surges that led steady streams of patients from communities across western Tennessee that had lost their own hospitals.
Pettigrew’s sense of dread deepened as he heard codes called over the intercom, knowing many of them meant people were dying all around him. He texted his son, asking him to call when he was alone. Pettigrew didn’t want his wife to hear him tell his son about important documents and safe combinations, in case he died soon.
Conservatives communities believed people like Scott schizophrenic and President Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/19/covid-closed-rural-hospitals-tennessee-deaths-anti-vax-conspiracies-00018204
Anti vax and anti masks has killed tens of thousands
But you have no shame..
IED is incurable but starting with psychological assistance and meditation can slow it down.
If I'm correct about it you will be like Mark Shipper .
Why do the idiots of the right like Lil Schitty have such a hard on for a dedicated scientist trying to save American lives??? Are they all that brainwashed and uneducated that the propaganda spread by a few doubters can set up shop in their distressed heads that no amount of logic or fact can shake them of the opinion that Fauci is bad??????? The man is a saint who has dedicated his life to the US while Lil Schitty's claim to fame is cleaning toilets at a jewelers and robbing the cradle !!!!!!!!!!
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill on Nov. 4, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill on Nov. 4, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
"If in fact, we do see a turnaround and a resurgence, we have to be able to pivot and go back to any degree of mitigation that is commensurate with what the situation is," Fauci said Thursday during an interview with CNN.
MEDIA'S ‘WEAPON’ FAUCI NO LONGER POLITICALLY USEFUL IN DEMOCRATS' TOUGH REELECTION BIDS: SEXTON. Fake news propaganda by Faux media
"We can't just say, 'We're done. We're going to move on.' We've got to be able to be flexible because we're dealing with a dynamic situation," he added, noting the new variant to be less fatal than the Omicron variant. "The overall mortality is actually down. It’s a very interesting situation where the cases are going up, but it does not, at this point in time, appear to be any degree of severity."
Fauci said he "would not be surprised in the next few weeks, given the fact that we’ve begun to open up, and we have an increase in the BA.2 variant, that we’ll be seeing an increase in cases."
During the segment, Fauci seemingly dismissed concern over the crippling economic burdens associated with lockdown measures or other precautions.
Then they posted irrelevant information like Scott
You attacked Dr Fauci despite
Scarcely two months after the Omicron variant drove coronavirus case numbers to frightening heights in the United States, scientists and health officials are bracing for another swell in the pandemic and, with it, the first major test of the country’s strategy of living with the virus while limiting its impact,” the New York Times reports.
“At local, state and federal levels, the nation has been relaxing restrictions and trying to restore a semblance of normalcy. Encouraging Americans to return to prepandemic routines, officials are lifting mask and vaccine mandates and showing no inclination of closing down offices, restaurants or theaters.”
“But scientists are warning that the United States isn’t doing enough to prevent a new surge from endangering vulnerable Americans and potentially upending life again.”
Prayer for Pres.Biden: Dear Lord please protect him,give him wisdom concerning the Ukraine/Russia situation. Deliver him from Evil
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