Fauci says coronavirus his 'worst nightmare' and far from over

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The country's top infectious disease doctor, Anthony Fauci, on Tuesday said the novel coronavirus is his "worst nightmare" and warned that it is far from over.

During a previously taped interview at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization's annual conference, Fauci said the virus hit all four criteria for a nightmare scenario - it was new, respiratory born, easily transmissible and has a significant degree of illness or mortality.

Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the virus surprised him with "how rapidly it just took over the planet."

"This took about a month to go around the world," Fauci said. "When is it going to end? We're still at the beginning of it."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fauci-says-coronavirus-his-worst-nightmare-and-far-from-over/ar-BB15g39t?li=BBnb7Kz

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[Iliyah]

2. I know . . .

[Wellstone ruled]

3. If what I observed yesterday

while Grocery Shopping is the rule . Here in Vegas,we will have one hell of a new out break . Less than fifty percent wearing masks,people not distancing,just plain carelessness happening.

Costco was the only store where no mask,no service no ifs ands or butts about it. My other stop,a Wal Mart,maybe half wearing a mask and very few social distancing.

[Shermann]

4. This is a dress rehearsal for the real nightmare

Check the four boxes but add an mortality rate of 80% or so like Ebola. Now you've got another Black Death.

In the meantime, there's what, 150 million babies born in the world each year? CV-19 is NO match for the virus that is humanity.

[PCIntern]

5. No shit, Sherlock.

You know, virtually everything I said about this epidemic/pandemic has come true. I swear I could’ve been on TV and done a better job than 95% of these people who are supposedly experts. And I’m no genius, I have a basic understanding of disease transmission and virology and it’s just plain as day.

What you’re going to see now is it come roaring back and there will be massive denial that the agent which is killing people is COVID-19. They’re going to say that it’s some new brand of flu and is no problem. Then, after its judged to be the nightmare redux, They’ll blame the governors for reopening the states too early particularly the Democratic governors and the Republican governors who amazingly stood by their constituency and tried to save their lives. And don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I’m admiring them, I’m just amazed that they actually did their jobs.

[PatSeg]

6. I posted this everywhere I could

in case people are getting antsy and bored, thinking the pandemic is almost over.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Good to know

because no matter where you are, lots and lots of people are acting as though it is over.

[Hortensis]

8. "When is it going to end? We're still at the beginning of it."

Stay safe, everyone.

[dem4decades]

9. Fauci had been silenced. Why doesn't he quit and talk?

[PandoraAwakened]

10. Perhaps even worse here in Arizona

WE ARE DYING FROM STUPIDITY HERE...LITERALLY.

Arizona has officially gone down the proverbial Rabbit Hole as our corona numbers spike crazily and Miss Rona gives a giant middle finger to my idiotic neighbors. However, nobody in MSM is talking about what is at the heart of WHY this is happening in Arizona...read on:

It is now DANGEROUS to go out WITH a mask on in Arizona, particularly in the predominantly white suburbs of Maricopa County outside of Phoenix, especially in the East Valley: Here you will be verbally ridiculed, spit upon, and even followed if you're wearing a mask. All of this has happened to me. My family and I are now adhering strictly to the buddy system for the very few occasions we've gone out since this madness started.

The non-mask-wearing majority here are of every age across the board---from toddlers holding the hands of their non-mask-wearing parents as they crowd the aisles of stores while touching everything they can to elderly people in walkers wheezing their way across the parking lots to repeatedly push the door-open buttons that no one cares to sterilize.

The self-appointed MPA (Mask Patrol Assholes) who feel compelled to publicly "shame" anyone wearing a mask are predominantly 40-65 years of age (my own educated guess based on appearance), 100% white, and fairly equally male and female.

Absolute stupidity. This is the inevitable result of Arizona consistently remaining second-to-last nationally in education.

And lest you jump to conclusions and assume that the animosity I receive for wearing a mask in public must have something to do with race---because these are, after all, white asswipes who feel privileged enough to accost total strangers with impunity---guess again. I am colorless and of their age range.

Ashamed to say it, but I look exactly like them...except for the mask thing, of course.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. I'm so sorry!

Gangs of no-mask vigilantes makes it more of a nightmare!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Maricopa County in Wikipedia...

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Maricopa County has a long history of being a Republican Party stronghold. While the city of Phoenix leans towards the Democratic Party, along with some other small areas within the county, the rest of it tends to vote heavily Republican, making it one of the more conservative urban counties in the country. Every Republican presidential candidate has carried Maricopa County since 1948. This includes the 1964 presidential run of native son Barry Goldwater, who would not have carried his own state had it not been for a 21,000-vote margin in Maricopa County. It is currently the largest county in the country to vote Republican. Since 1964, Democrats have only kept the margin within single digits three times–in 1992, 1996, and 2016.

I'm very sorry!

[crickets]

11. K&R for visibility.