CNN, really? Fauci statement and timeline DISASTER for Biden and Dems

[underpants]

Fauci's new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democrats

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/politics/anthony-fauci-timeline-covid-joe-biden/index.html

President Joe Biden just got some deeply unwelcome news: The pandemic that he was elected to end could drag on deep into a midterm election year, with all the political and economic destruction that could bring.


It also meant that Biden's best-laid plans of triumphing over the pandemic and riding an economic wave into the campaign for congressional election results in November next year now look at risk.

If the emergency does go on that long, it will offer an opening for Republicans who are seeking to brand Biden's presidency as a failure -- and who are seizing on his chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan to paint a broader narrative of political decay.


—second to last paragraph is the elephant in the room this author missed—

Even as conditions worsen, the political frenzy over the virus, vaccines and Covid-19 treatments is escalating. Several Republican governors, including Florida's Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott of Texas, are waging cultural wars over mask mandates in schools ahead of reelection races and possible presidential bids. Trump's lukewarm endorsement of vaccines was booed by his crowd in Alabama on Saturday night, so don't look for the ex-President to drop much political capital on the issue in future. And the FDA just had to warn against a new crank Covid "cure" -- a livestock deworming drug -- pushed on conservative and social media.

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Just saw this. Speechless

And electing (more) Republicans would accomplish what, exactly?

[ananda]

50. It would make everything exponentially worse.

Everything.

[Lovie777]

2. CNN is off the charts . . .

Democrats will be fine.

[agingdem]

12. Yup...

Joe promised enough vaccine to immunize the entire population and he delivered...a person can walk into any CVS/Walgreens and get a jab..no playing the vaccine lottery...the Republican governors in red states are killing kids and the un-vaxxed gullibly stupid are allowing them to do it..Joe will not get the blame...the apathetic callous governors will be held accountable...and fuck CNN!

[FoxNewsSucks]

18. He met the goal early in fact.

But as long as the media covers it this way, it will be the result republicons want. They'll blame Biden for the economy, jobs, disease and death. All of which is the direct fault of MF45. But we won't hear that.

[agingdem]

29. don't underestimate Joe and his team...

the economy is still chugging along nicely, the job market is different but not dire...and don't underestimate Trump fatigue...even the republicans hate his guts...all those nazi loving rally goers voted for the that depraved sociopath in 2020 but we still won.. we endured voter restrictions, hours long voter wait lines, Trump/Barr/DeJoy's attempt to fix the election and with all that shit thrown at us we still won...and don't forget there's whole generation of younger voters who hate everything the GOP stand for...and they vote..do you remember the joyous dancing in the streets when Biden/Harris were declared the winners..those guys vote...

[spanone]

3. Such Bullshit.

[ScratchCat]

4. CNN is missing one thing

The mass carnage we are about to witness will not be seen as Biden's fault, but the fault of those idiots Republican Governors. Folks, there will be mass child deaths from sea to sea and that will finally sink these idiots.

CNN can go to hell with this nonsense.

[doc03]

9. I think you are wrong his polls are already dropping

because of the way he is handling of COVID. He is getting the blame for people not getting vaccinated I guess. It basicly depends on how the media interprets it. They can't let Biden get too popular no horse race in 2022 and 2024 ratings ad
revenues will tank.

[ScratchCat]

16. You are talking about current, contrived polls

When kids start dying in mass, in Red States across this country, Biden will not be blamed. DeSantis and others will be held accountable for killing children, not Biden.

[FoxNewsSucks]

20. I wouldn't bet on that.

There are mass child deaths every time some asshole goes to a school with an AR-15 machine gun.

Steve Scalise was nearly murdered himself and is still an NRA shill.

They won't care about this either.

[ScratchCat]

22. That's not even remotely similar

Wow

[FoxNewsSucks]

25. I'd like that to be overly cynical,

but nothing really gets through to them. Their media informers find a way to sell everything to them.

[luckone]

35. +1

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Anti-vaxxers and maskers fault .

Not Joe and the Democrats. THAT is the nessage because Joe has been saying everyday, "GET VACCINATED. It is the PATRIOTIC thing to do "

Anybody disagree with that?

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. I've given up on CNN and haven't watched them is over a week.

Joy, Rachel and Lawrence on MSNBC are just about it for my cable news viewing. Most Dems I know are also fed up with them.

[Marius25]

19. I quit watching CNN ages ago. They're absolute garbage.

Not much better than Fox these days.

[vercetti2021]

7. CNN going full RW now

They need viewers somewhere. I guess alienating Dems is somehow an appealing grab to them? Lmao

[moondust]

24. Looks like it.

Blaming Biden and Democrats for the "botched" (per John Avlon) Afghan evacuation and a deadly virus that won't go away largely because the GQP is spreading it with their irresponsible policies and practices. Was that the GQP plan all along and CNN is finally getting on board with Fux, OAN, and Newsmax? Pathetic.

[Mad_Machine76]

8. If people are so sick of the pandemic

they need to stop contributing to it by getting vaxxed, masking up as needed, etc. Dumping or revolting against some leaders like Abbott and DeathSantis would help too. And there is literally only so much Biden/Dems can do. People should be attacking Republicans for their efforts to extend the pandemic.

[Hoyt]

10. Unfortunately, rightly or wrongly, dissatisfied voters take it out on the current admin.

[WHITT]

14. In Favor Of One

promoting drinking disinfectant and eating horse dewormer?

[Mad_Machine76]

15. Right?

It's utterly depressing.

[Hoyt]

26. Luckily, that admin was ditched last year and won't be back.

[WHITT]

28. His Niece

sez he's running in 2024 unless he's legally taken down.

[Hoyt]

30. I doubt Mary trump has had much interaction with donald the past year or so. He's gone.

[WHITT]

37. But She's Had Decades

of prior "interaction" and can read him like a book. No pun intended.

[Demsrule86]

42. If Democratic voters show up, we are going to be fine.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Republicans win when America fails.

They know this and exploit it. Same old song and dance.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Time Warner owns CNN

They want their big ratings, big election year paydays and, most of all, their big tax cuts.

[FoxNewsSucks]

21. truth right there

[underpants]

33. They need two horses in the race or no one watches it

[Beaverhausen]

34. Time Warner? No

AT&T currently owns WarnerMedia (but not for long)

There is no Time Warner anymore.

I know because I work at Warner Bros.

AT&T has sucked and thank god they are going to sell us off.

[Kid Berwyn]

36. Thanks for the correction!

AT&T and Warner Media sound as liberal as Henry Luce was.

[CentralMass]

17. IMO the CDC's decision to change its mask wearing recommendation back in May was a major factor

in this latest surge.

[FoxNewsSucks]

23. agreed

too impatient and too much pressure to give in and declare it over.

[Mad_Machine76]

32. If more people were vaxxed

then it might not have been. The guidance was maybe a bit naive in terms of thinking that more people would voluntarily do the right thing and get vaxxed and maybe it was premature, but at that point in time cases were lower and we had had the vaccines for a few months. At some point, the guidance had to change based on the circumstances on the ground. They lifted the gate a bit, intending it for vaxxed people but then pretty much everybody took it as a sign that they too can just throw the masks off even if they weren't vaxxed.

[pinkstarburst]

47. Well, they weren't.

They lifted the mask ban way too early. That was a major mistake on the CDC's part, I'm sorry to say.

And I don't give them a pass, not one single inch for their ridiculous excuse of "only the vaccinated were supposed to take their masks off." Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of human behavior predicted from the moment this was announced that the anti-vax, anti-mask crowd was going to rip their masks off, too. They hated wearing them in the first place, and only grudgingly did because it was required. No way were they going to wear masks when others (vaccinated) were taking them off, especially when there is no easy way to determine on sight who is vaxed and who isn't.

I am sorry, but to a great extent, I blame the CDC's monumentally bad call on masks this spring for us being in the current state we are today.

[Scrivener7]

27. I was complaining a bit ago about the fact that Roku has no good free

option for CNN. Not so sad about that any more.

[Ms. Toad]

31. So do you think science-based predictions should be altered for political purposes?

Glad to see that Fauci's reality-based assessment is meeting with the same political response that the realists on DU have been met with for months.

(I don't do personal predictions more than a couple months out, but his projections seem based in reality to me, as we head back to indoor venues, full on in person schools, mask resistance among both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, coupled with the success of vaccines in minimizing the disease for the vaccinated - leading to vaccinated individuals with COVID spreading it to others because we don't know we have it - or because we pretend it is just a cold.)

COVID has its own timeline - and the longer we try to pretend it is over (and do play stupid games like ditching the masks and packing indoor venues), the longer we contribute to extending the timeline (winning stupid prizes).

Get vaccinated, mask up, and stay away from crowded indoor venues.

[underpants]

40. Football season is only a few weeks away

Specifically college football. Big crowds. Screaming and yelling. Especially in the south - really everywhere but the Northeast (lots of small schools though)

[Ms. Toad]

43. I suspect crowding into (indoor) classrooms will have a much more significant impact.

But with Delta, outdoor transmission will have much more of an impact than it did with the original variant.

[beaglelover]

44. Exactly. WTF is the issue with this? CNN is reporting what Fauci is estimating will happen unless

we get more people vaccinated. It's fucking depressing as hell to think about, but we may not be done with COVID for years to come.

[Greybnk48]

38. CNN, for the most part, is Fox lite, and has been

for a while (with a few exceptions).

[Mme. Defarge]

39. CNN is dead to me.

[Strelnikov_]

41. How many more variants between now and late spring?

There are only two one ways out of this, vaccination with mitigation, or millions (tens?) dead just in this country as 'herd immunity' burns through and collapses the health care system.

[beaglelover]

46. OR we discover a theraputic cure that allows people to get over COVID once they get it

so they don't die.

[senseandsensibility]

45. Stephen Collinson wrote this. He specializes in

"Dems in Disarray!" screaming headlines. I've seen a few and started checking the byline. It started fairly recently as if he was brought in to dirty up Biden.

[StatWoman]

48. I didn't elect Biden to end the pandemic . . .

This planet has close to 8 billion humans on it. I'm not naive enough to think a president has super-powers.

I did elect Biden to not follow a policy of "Get sick and die, serfs! It's good for the economy!". He has more than delivered on my expectations.

[BannonsLiver]

49. Collinson is a right winger. Always has been.