President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has said Americans will soon make their “own decisions” on dealing with the virus as the country is “certainly heading out of” the “full-blown pandemic phase of COVID-19”. The Financial Times has the story.
The U.S. is heading out of the “full blown” pandemic phase of COVID-19, Joe Biden’s Chief Medical Adviser said, as he predicted a combination of vaccinations, treatments and prior infection would soon make the virus more manageable.
Dr Anthony Fauci told the Financial Times he hoped there would be an end to all pandemic-related restrictions in the coming months including mandatory wearing of masks.
In his most optimistic comments about the trajectory of the pandemic since the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant, Fauci outlined a scenario in which local health departments would lead the response to the virus rather than the Biden administration.
Fauci said: “As we get out of the full-blown pandemic phase of COVID-19, which we are certainly heading out of, these decisions will increasingly be made on a local level rather than centrally decided or mandated. There will also be more people making their own decisions on how they want to deal with the virus.”
Asked when restrictions might end, he said he hoped it would be “soon”, and agreed with the suggestion it was likely to happen this year. But he warned local health departments could reintroduce measures temporarily if outbreaks were detected in the community.
Ever the over-cautious, Dr. Fauci still leaves open the possibility that restrictions may not end this year, or they may be set on a local level or return whenever there are “outbreaks”.
He also refused to describe the virus as ‘endemic’, saying only that it may soon reach an “equilibrium”, where the Government no longer has to pay such close attention to infection levels.
There is no way we are going to eradicate this virus, But I hope we are looking at a time when we have enough people vaccinated and enough people with protection from previous infection that the Covid restrictions will soon be a thing of the past.
Oddly, he said low-risk people may need a vaccine booster every four or five years, despite there being no evidence the vaccines remain effective even for four or five months.
It will depend on who you are. But if you are a normal, healthy 30-year-old person with no underlying conditions, you might need a booster only every four or five years.
He claimed public health officials had not been too reliant on vaccines to address the disease, pointing to the development of remdesivir as an early treatment that keeps patients out of hospital – despite it having failed to show benefit in the WHO’s Solidarity trial.
The FT article also included an opinion poll for readers with a ludicrously leading question:
Do you think Covid restrictions should be dropped by the end of the year?
Yes, I think the restrictions should be scrapped now.
No, we should be led by the science, not arbitrary dates.
What if ‘The Science’ says that masks are useless, lockdowns are useless, and it’s past time to lift restrictions? What if the science has been saying for many weeks now (at least) that the pandemic is no longer serious? What if the science says that lockdown is leading to huge harms to health, economic damage etc.? Possibilities apparently not permitted at the FT.
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This is worth watching. A male nurse who worked in covid wards in USA – he says he helped euthanize covid patients.
https://rumble.com/vmu9zz-31-year-pulmonary-nurse-testifies-how-he-unknowingly-killed-patients-follow.html
Fauci should be strapped to an electric chair for what he had created.
I’m willing to bet that when “The Science” proclaims that mask wearing is unnecessary along with the plethora of nonsensical Rules that went with it, we will still have a Silent Majority who will continue wearing masks and obeying The Rules indefinitely. Speaking from personal experience, it has been 2 weeks now since the mask mandate in shops was withdrawn in England, yet most punters of all ages are wearing them, although week by week the number of unmasked is slowly increasing.
Oh, suddenly it is up to the people to decide. What is going on? Everyone who took the experimental biologicals gonna die? Job done Tony. Why is Harry suddenly pushing HIV testing? Why is Israel saying they are seeing people who,have had four jabs dying due to IMMUNE EROSION? Unless you do not know, humans cannot survive without their IMMUNE SYSTEM.
Luc Montagnier, who has recently died said those who have had a 3rd covid shot should take a HIV test then sue their governments!
Fauci: “As we get out of the full-blown pandemic phase of COVID-19, which we are certainly heading out of, these decisions will increasingly be made on a local level rather than centrally decided or mandated. There will also be more people making their own decisions on how they want to deal with the virus.”
I added an unspoken but still operative sentence to his quote:
“But until this day arrives, let me be very clear, American citizens will not be allowed to make their own decisions about their own health. That’s why I am here and that’s why your state’s health directors are in your state capitols. We are paid to make these decisions for you.”
He and his Dem chum(p)s are now only changing their tune because their ‘popularity’ ratings are in the gutter as more and more ordinary people believe we should be taking off ALL restrictions, COVID passports, testing, etc, etc and getting on with our lives and hopefully undoing all the mess Fauci & Co caused over the past 2 years.
Apparently they are also trying to do this as near as possible to Biden’s ‘State of the Union’ address in order to get good publicity as a last ditch effort to save his presidency (it won’t) and them from tanking in both the mid terms in October and the 2024 Presidential Election.
“It’s all about The Science” Yeah, right, Tony.
Another one for my bookmark folder “Bedwetters in retreat”.
The mid-term elections are on the horizon. The Democrats, especially Biden, are doing badly in the polls. Richard Nixon had better approval ratings when he was forced out of the White House than Joe Biden does right now.
Democrat governors and mayors are rapidly ditching their covid mandates as they view electoral wipeout.
Covid could be tap-dancing across the White House front lawn and the Democrats would declare it to be over a nd done with.
The so-called pandemic has been maybe over next year since 2020, IOW, that’s just Fauci repeating the assertion that the shit show must go on until 2023. And by then, it’ll doubtlessly again be over maybe next year.
Fauci is an absolute canute. If anyone deserves string up by his testicles and beaten with a shitty stick, it’s him.
The HCQ trials pushed by UK Gov, Fauci, WHO and BMGF are pre meditated murder to fuel further demand for warp speed and get as much money into the hands of wall Street and the pharma companies before they economy officially tanked
“as he predicted a combination of vaccinations, treatments and prior infection would soon make the virus more manageable.”
No. You and your minions suppressed any notion of prior infection having an impact, and treatments? Your approach to that led to deaths. This guy is a psychopath
Keep testing and you’ll test positive, your highness.
Disturbing article on latest US Homeland Security issuance.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/09/dhs-anyone-who-doubts-government-covid-19-positions-is-a-seditionist/
Odd in that it chimes completely with the words used by Mark Carney [former governor of BofE] to describe the Canadian Truckers convoy. He referred to them as seditionists.
Almost as if they were reading from some kind of same script or something.
Nooo. Shirley not. That just sounds like a crazy far-right, white supremacist conspiracy theory (isn’t that how it goes??)
Ron Paul told anyone who was listening (few were since he was ignored by the press) that America would quickly come to rue the day Congress created this agency.
But, hey, government did “something.” They created the requisite fear and then they said, “Here you go. We are protecting you.”
I see that the vaccine has worked well for Prince Charles.
With Hundreds of Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths, Is It Time to Lock Up the Lock-Downers?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-hundreds-of-thousands-of-unnecessary-deaths-is-it-time-to-lock-up-the-lock-downers_4262504.html
Mr Major attack on Johnson. The globalists and remainers are getting angry at Johnson. They are pathetic
Brace yourselves. New variant planned, to be unleashed before the end of 2022.
What a a lying barsteward
O/T
Prince Charles has just tested positive for Covid for a second time yet, from tomorrow, people like him will be free to come to England without having to take a test, because they are double or triple jabbed.
People like me will still have to take tests.
Makes perfect sense!
Schwab’s Man Charles – please don’t mention his name in polite company
I hope Charlie is very poorly. Horrible little barmpot.
Lock this fraudster up.
Or worse. Much worse.
Quack. Can you say ‘quack’ now or is it considered abusive? I ask, because it’s the kindest description I can think of for Anthony Fauci.
A bit unfair to ducks though
He’s a doctator.
Working hard to turn a short term robbery-style scam into a long-term cash cow scam.
What people need to wake-up and get seriously alarmed about are no longer the ramblings of Anthony Fauci, defending his dark ‘project’ and his own skin, but their equally dark plans for the transformation of the NHS into a Digital Hub of all our personal information and the assault on our currently protected ‘bodily autonomy’. Is it possible that forced medical procedures ‘in the public interest’ could be on the way?
I suspect many would be stunned at what they are so quietly planning for us all if they read the NHS plans originally published back in 2019!
They with dovetail neatly into the subtle over-riding of our Human Rights in their new “Bill of (modified) Rights” ( !) and the devil buried in the detail of their “On Line Harms Bill”.
Two more Trojan Horses stealthily planted amongst our freedoms, with all this proceeding at record pace to meet their 2030 UN Agenda timetable!
All this makes you wonder if politicians draw up a tissue of lies and call it a ‘manifesto’ simply to fool people into voting for them? (Rhetorical question of course where the answer is so obviously “Yes they do”).
This Government has already broken all… Read more »
See my post above David where I comment on him remarking to an aide that he had “got Covid done”. Hard not to see it in the context of reporting to his overlords.
Has anyone warned Doris Nadine not to drink the tea (bet they haven’t)
Doris is dumb enough to order a pot of Earl Grey
She just reads out what they put in front of her. So the perfect modern “Conservative” ( sic) Politician
What we have (re-) learned over this plandemic.
Viruses come (and go) in waves, and are self-limiting when they have infected so many. Lockdowns and masks are no use in these waves. Maybe the frightened hide away a bit more, but that should be all that is needed.
There is no point vaccinating(or gene-therapising) once the virus is in general circulation. Especially when all they do is manipulate existing efficient immune systems.
You CAN fool most of the people most of the time – and some seem to like it. Bribery, guilt, fear, and ostractising the free-thinking non-compliant are useful.
There was a pandemic?
In Fauci’s devious mind!
Victory by gaslight, in sight…
“They Will Not Silence Me”: Doctor Who Discovered Omicron Was Pressured Not To Reveal It’s Mild
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/they-will-not-silence-me-doctor-who-discovered-omicron-was-pressured-not-reveal-its-mild.
They’re always lying to you!
“They’re always lying to you” – Yes they are! All politicians, all Deep State Civil Servants, all Corporates and all MSM – the “Big Lesson” of the scamdemic.
The next lies will be even bigger!
Fauci has been called out as liar and a front -line operator on behalf of Big Pharma and his principal ally Gate and his master-plan for world domination through Health control, vaccines and digitalisation,
His comments throughout have sustained the ‘scamdemic’ he helped launch – bizarre, contradictory and evert changing as he tries to get on the right sight of the pandemic roll-out and public reaction he helped generate by funding “gain of function research” on a Corona virus with Peter Daszak in Wuhan after it was halted as’ illegal’ in the US by the Obama administration as being “too dangerous”..
He style has been described as “Mafia” by RFK Junior in his excellent take down “”The Real Anthony Fauci” which exposes every aspect of his 50 year career from AIDS onwards – indeed his favourite film is said to be the Godfather and his favourite quotation : “It’s nothing personal, just business”.
In the book we see a career explored that under the pretence of ‘public service’, seems to be a ruthless pursuit of personal interests and advantage bathed in rule-bending corruption, and the career destruction and intimidation of opponents.
Of course, the truth will be for a… Read more »