Fauci Says 'Full Blown' Pandemic Phase Is Ending (Astroturfing trucker convoy timed it perfect).

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Fauci Says ‘Full Blown’ Pandemic Phase Is Ending

February 8, 2022 at 8:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 98 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/02/08/fauci-says-full-blown-pandemic-phase-is-ending/

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Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Financial Times that the United States is heading out of the “full blown” pandemic phase of Covid-19, as he predicted a combination of vaccinations, treatments and prior infection would soon make the virus more manageable.

Fauci added that there would be an end to all pandemic-related restrictions in the coming months including mandatory wearing of masks.

Said 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.”

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Rumsfeld and Cheney knew Russia was going bankrupt in the 1970s but saved it for Ronald Reagan to do 'star wars' and get the credit for ending communism.

[Initech]

1. Great news!

[rockfordfile]

2. Congrats to our medical personnel and President Biden

No the fringe right-wing idiots just showed how much of a pos they are.

[iemanja]

3. I'm not changing my behavior

I intend to stay healthy.

[AlexSFCA]

5. masking forever?

Covid will never go away. never.

[leftstreet]

6. You've obviously never lived in E or SE Asian countries

Prior to the pandemic, you mask according to seasonal flu outbreaks or when you think it's necessary

What is with people and this whole mask fReeDoM bs?

[Ace Rothstein]

7. So masks were never mandated there and people didn't wear them as a prophylactic on a large scale.

How is that at all similar to mandates?

[leftstreet]

10. Completely unrelated

The issue was the poster suggesting people can't be expected to "mask forever," even after the mandates are removed. Long before the pandemic people in other countries were masking for various health reasons. It's weird, although apparently very American, to believe that masking is some kind of punishment

[AlexSFCA]

15. this is misleading, I am only talking about mandates

when someone is sick, masks should be encouraged. I may not have lived in SE Asia but masking prior to pandemic is a a matter of caring and politeness when sick, not mandate for all.

[Celerity]

9. Oh, there will even be some who are still sheltering in place come 2023 even if

the pandemic is long officially over.

I am afraid a handful will never go back to pre-pandemic lifestyles. Some may well be locked into lifetimes of permanent paranoia. That will only be a very, very small minority and it is their choice.

The only issue I will have is if they try to permanently keep fanning the flames via dodgy virtue signalling and attempts at scolding/shaming as their permanent stance.

At some point, the most vociferous will become cranks. You cannot force an extreme stance on the vast majority and expect to not eventually be perceived otherwise.

That all said, we are nowhere, nowhere near that stage in the pandemic, but it will come, I do predict.

[Dorian Gray]

16. You are right

I know a few (in real life) people who are so paranoid that it's negatively affected their lives, their kids and their relationships. It's really sad to see, and I think that they're suffering for it. But, for them, the restrictions are on themselves and their immediate families. They're not internet warriors who are accusing people who are going out to eat of committing 'passive eugenics.'

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=o2jH5bbJc-k-r7JgoePSLg (in response to Juliette Kayyem who applauded Democratic Governor Murphy of NJ for an end date to state-wide mask mandates.

And yes, there is a twitter contingency that is so pro-restriction that they accuse people who advocate for reduced restrictions of committing genocide.
There are people on the internet who advocate for shooting people if they don't follow restrictions. (Bizarrely, one of those people is an ex-Jeopardy champion named Arthur Chu.) They exist now and will exist into perpetuity. And I honestly think they're as big a problem as

[iemanja]

11. If necessary

why not? It's not close to gone yet.

[Ace Rothstein]

12. It will never be gone.

That's why restrictions are being lifted. To each their own on masking moving forward.

[iemanja]

13. because of politics

not because of science. People are sick of wearing masks. Their effectiveness hasn't changed. We are still seeing huge numbers of deaths. The question is why people no longer care.

[Ace Rothstein]

14. Mandates are being dropped worldwide, not due to American politics.

The reason most are dying is because they are taking no precautions, mainly vaccines which are very effective at preventing death. I feel terrible for the small number of vaccinated who are dying but we'll never be able to fully protect them.

[Celerity]

17. +1

[AlexSFCA]

4. Time to learn to live with covid!

It will never go away. The world is closely watching Denmark which lifted all covid restrictions. Imagine that - no quarantine, no isolation, no symptoms check, no mask, etc. Children death rate from flu - 1.9%, children death rate from covid - 0.072%. Why is flu vaccine not mandatory for kids??? Yet there are plans to make covid vaccine mandatory for kids. IMO, both should be mandatory (why not) but it makes precisely zero sense to mandate only covid vaccine for kids based on data.

[Ace Rothstein]

8. I feel like they've been slow walking this since Omicron started.

I'm shocked that people here still seem to have not seen it coming.