Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Flashback Sunday: Anthony Fauci Feb 17, 2020 said "there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask", danger from coronavirus is "just minuscule"
He couldn't have been more wrong, and on both counts no less.
Coronavirus went on to kill far more than flu ever has since 1918, and other "experts" now chalk up those low flu numbers partly to mask-wearing.
USA AWAY, here in Feb 2020:
"If you look at the masks that you buy in a drug store, the leakage around that doesn't really do much to protect you," he said. "People start saying, 'Should I start wearing a mask?' Now, in the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask." ...
Fauci doesn't want people to worry about coronavirus, the danger of which is "just minuscule." But he does want them to take precautions against the "influenza outbreak, which is having its second wave."
Coronavirus went on to kill 346,000 in the USA in 2020, but the flu killed just 700 over the entire 2020-2021 season.
The irony is the experts quoted by Scientific American now attribute the low number of flu deaths to mask wearing and social distancing, both of which Fauci only later embraced to stop coronavirus, but which has now gone on to kill an additional 440,000 despite those measures and mass vaccination:
Since the novel coronavirus began its global spread, influenza cases reported to the World Health Organization from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have dropped to minute levels. The reason, epidemiologists think, is that the public health measures taken to keep the coronavirus from spreading—notably mask wearing and social distancing—also stop the flu.
Prevalence of COVID-19 in 2020 was just 6.1% of population (20m cases in 328m people) because it didn't really hit the country until March. In 2021 to date, prevalence is higher at 8.7% (28.923m cases in 332m people), about the level typical for influenza in an average year.
Why, when people have been masking, social distancing, and getting vaccinated?
Clearly something(s) has(have) stopped influenza, but the definitive transmission mechanism of coronavirus remains unsolved.
Similarly no one so far has explained how white tail deer populations have become riddled with coronavirus: We do not know how the deer were exposed to SARS-CoV-2.
A new Penn State study is pretty certain hunters are somehow responsible:
“The viral lineages we identified correspond to the same lineages circulating in humans at that time,” said Kapur. “The fact that we found several different SARS-CoV-2 lineages circulating within geographically confined herds across the state suggests the occurrence of multiple independent spillover events from humans to deer, followed by local deer-to-deer transmission. This also raises the possibility of the spillback from deer back to humans, especially in exurban areas with high deer densities.”
But I doubt it's because they breathed on them out there in the woods.
The vectors must be human urine and feces, but to this day no one is focusing on those to explain the continuing crisis.
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Flashback: SLATE finally called Obama a climate hypocrite in 2015 because he gave approval to Shell to drill off shore in Alaska, and then had the balls to go visit the Arctic Circle region right after
The Obamas, you will recall, notoriously spent a lot of time and money jet-setting about the globe, spewing carbon everywhere. The travel was the thing, the issues just the pretext for it.
They are still at it, and Greta is growing increasingly fed up.
Monday, January 14, 2019
Thursday, September 13, 2018
It's taken incompetent Puerto Rico eleven months to raise its official death toll from 64 to 2,975, just in time for the election
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Why Hillary hates it now: Remembering Trump's completely unexpected landslide victory over Hillary in the Electoral College
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Lefty mag The Nation: Not a hack at all, but a leak
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Flashback: There's government indifference to your problems, and then there's Obama's indifference to your problems
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Flashback: "The polls, they say I have the most loyal people . . . where I could . . . shoot somebody . . ."
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Flashback: The New York Times Jan. 9, 2011, updated for today
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Flashback: Robert Mueller and James Comey at FBI accused the wrong guy in the 2001 anthrax letter deaths
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Flashback Trump August 2015: Ex-Im Bank is unnecessary, I don't like it, It's not free enterprise, I'd be against it
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Flashback January 1, 2013, 2257 hours: 151 House Republicans who voted against making the Bush tax cuts permanent
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