Anthony Fauci on Wednesday told a Wall Street Journal podcast that states experiencing a significant uptick in new coronavirus cases “should seriously look at shutting down.”
The big picture: The comments come as states like Florida, Texas and Arizona have become new hotspots for the virus, with soaring rates of infections and rising deaths.
- While those states have taken steps to pause their economic reopenings, like closing down bars, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has said he will not reinstate restrictions or move to again close businesses that have reopened.
What he’s saying: “Any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down. It’s not for me to say because each state is different.”
- Fauci said he and the White House’s coronavirus task force has been “in contact frequently” with public health officials in those states.
- He blamed a “let it rip” mentality on the surge in cases, saying, “We are all in this together. … I’ve been trying to stress that by getting infected or not really caring if you’re getting infected, you will inadvertently infect someone. … So to say that it’s benign is not true.”
In other words he’s telling Tx gov Abbott (and Costello) and the rest to lock down completely or else….Abbott’s already “ordered” mask wearing in public until who knows…. good luck enforcing that in my neck of the woods…I don’t see mountain lions wearing masks….Bwaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
“saying, “We are all in this together. …“
I’m so sick of hearing this Commie collective quote. F#$k them! I’m an individual, not a collective sheep.
As you say, DL. the government’s been telling everyone that they have to wear masks everywhere but although they have signs displayed at businesses, no one really cares and no one is really enforcing it. It’s all for show. A “one eye open, one eye closed” mentality, as they don’t want to harass or make trouble for existing customers due to the sensitive nature of it all. It’s a joke.
I don’t wear a mask when I go to places and no one says anything. You can see the rebellious looks of other people who walk into a place not wearing a mask, too.
Complete cowardice of our people, nobody is fighting back, watch what happens, you think it’s bad now?
THIS IS THE FKG FLU PEOPLE!!!! SURE PEOPLE DIE, THEY HAVE BEEN FOR 300 FKG YEARS!
HOSPITALS ARE FULL BECAUSE HUNDREDS ARE SHUT DOWN!!
THE BIGGEST CON SINCE THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE!
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago
-flek