Where, indeed. Of course, I'm sure GWB will tell us how this author failed science in grade school and as such, isn't a source we can trust. Where's Dr. Fauci As Another Corona-Myth Dies? For over a year well-to-do Americans have quite literally been “quarantining” packages shipped to them, and that were dropped off at their residences by “science-denying” untouchables who lacked the means to similarly "shelter-in-place." The package-terrified have usually waited 48 hours before handling said box and contents. What about the Clorox wipes that were never in stock thanks to frantic science believers clearing the shelves of them? Some never left their homes. Of course, when the corona-fearful actually ventured outside, they wore gloves while still not touching anything. They jumped out in the street when passing another human since, well, you know, the very humans who’ve driven all progress for millennia were suddenly a lethal menace to one another. But the main thing is that if they had to risk their lives by being in public, the science reverent more than masked up: they wiped down everything they came near. Even though airlines were sending out texts ahead of boarding meant to comfort the nail-biting about plane interiors that had been thoroughly scrubbed, passengers still brought their own wipes on planes; that, or they accepted wipes from flight attendants in order to double up on the work done by maintenance. At present, Hilton essentially co-brands its rooms with Lysol…. Oh well, apparently all that hand wringing about surfaces was a tad overdone. Last week the CDC announced that the risk of contracting the virus by touching a “contaminated” surface was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 and 10,000. Another myth born of Covid-hysteria has bitten the dust. Since it has, the reasonable in our midst can only hope that Corona-celebrity Anthony Fauci is asked to comment on the new findings. They’re very telling, and not solely because what was once believed deeply has turned out to be so wrong. But since all the hysteria about surfaces has been revealed as much ado about nothing, it’s worth starting there. More realistically, it’s worth traveling back in time nearly 40 years to 1983. It was then that Fauci asserted in a paper that “routine close contact, as within a family household” could spread AIDS. To say that Fauci was wrong brings new meaning to understatement. At the same time, Fauci’s false assumptions in ’83 don’t indict him. Back then little was known about AIDS. Doctors were flying blind as it were, so they worked tirelessly to learn more. Applied to the present, all-too-many on the left have hysterically criticized the “science-deniers” in their midst who are only deniers insofar as they haven’t always accepted the present consensus about the coronavirus. As opposed to deniers, these skeptics were just being reasonable. Think about it. It’s not “science” if there isn’t doubt. And as Fauci’s incorrect assumptions from long ago yet again remind us, there’s so much we don’t know. There’s so much we get wrong in the early days as we’re learning. In the 1980s the view from the NHS experts in England was that one in five Brits would contract AIDS for which there was no cure. Even in hyper-lefty Hollywood, homosexual actor Tony Perkins went to great lengths to hide his AIDS diagnosis given his reasonable belief that he would never work again. Hollywood had overreacted. By many miles. How little we knew. That so many got AIDS so wrong not too long ago should hopefully cause the hysterical of the moment to perhaps dial down their certainty. What you believe likely won’t age well, which is the point. It explains why so many of us were so horrified by lockdowns. You see, we weren’t solely against lockdowns because we deny science or that we don’t care about the virus, or didn’t believe it existed. In truth, we were against the lockdowns because freedom produces abundant information in addition to being a virtue on its own. We were also against the lockdowns simply because force is superfluous if something threatens; particularly if the threat is thought to be lethal. About Covid’s lethality, doesn’t the latter explain why some of the science-worshipful were so terrified, and so desperate to “quarantine” packages, wipe down doorknobs, and avoid human contact? OK, but if you were that scared, then what was the point of forced lockdowns? Indeed, as has been made plain, the fearful were already going to great lengths to do what they thought would protect them from the virus. The latter yet again explains the lack of Clorox wipes, masks, etc. It’s a reminder that people didn’t need to be forced. No doubt the fear expressed by the scrubbers and washers has proven overdone and unwarranted in retrospect, which speaks to why freedom of action during “crises” is so important. In other words, those who threw caution to the wind and who couldn’t be bothered to disinfect everything were just as important as the corona-obsessed when it came to finding answers. Arguably more important. The “deniers” provided information about virus spread that the “believers” could not. Get it? In this case, the deniers who lived their lives were correct. Avoiding all contact proved idiotic. The “doubters” had science on their side. It’s all yet again a reminder that hysterical certitude isn’t the same as knowledge. Emotion is its own form of denial. John Tamny is editor of RealClearMarkets, Vice President at FreedomWorks, and a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research and Trading (www.trtadvisors.com). His next book, set for release in March of 2021, is titled When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason. Other books by Tamny include They're Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America's Frustrated Independent Thinkers, The End of Work, about the exciting growth of jobs more and more of us love, Who Needs the Fed? and Popular Economics. He can be reached at jtamny@realclearmarkets.com.
Seems like Fauci has a long history of faulty reasoning and hysterical overreaction. How this guy is still considered the resident expert is beyond me.
So a meaningless spew about the issue of surface transmission of COVID where the level of risk was investigated and settled many months ago is suddenly brought up as an issue --- in an attempt to undermine the science that Dr. Fauci has been providing ---- never even noting in the article that Fauci never commented on surface transmission. OK -- we got it... the article is from a long term COVID-denier, John Tamney, who is somehow trying to tie Fauci into his bizarre fantasy.
Fauci has been spewing bullshit about masks and transmission from early days. He has gotten many things wrong... Even this statement is very questionable. An "expert" like him should be speaking with far more precision. While I understand what an aerosol is can be debated... it seems he got this statement muddled at best... but most likely very wrong.. as it is spread through droplets in very close contact per the CDC. (not suspended in air) Fauci on aerosol spread... Instead, Fauci says the most recent evidence points to an entirely different method of transmission: person-to-person. "Overwhelmingly, it is [spread] person to person through the respiratory route," he said. "Droplets are aerosolized from one person to another." https://bestlifeonline.com/coronavirus-surfaces/ vs CDC The epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 indicates that most infections are spread through close contact, not airborne transmission Diseases that are spread efficiently through airborne transmission tend to have high attack rates because they can quickly reach and infect many people in a short period of time. We know that a significant proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections (estimated 40-45%) occur without symptoms and that infection can be spread by people showing no symptoms. Thus, were SARS-CoV-2 spread primarily through airborne transmission like measles, experts would expect to have observed considerably more rapid global spread of infection in early 2020 and higher percentages of prior infection measured by serosurveys. Available data indicate that SARS-CoV-2 has spread more like most other common respiratory viruses, primarily through respiratory droplet transmission within a short range (e.g., less than six feet). There is no evidence of efficient spread (i.e., routine, rapid spread) to people far away or who enter a space hours after an infectious person was there. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/scientific-brief-sars-cov-2.html
The guy is a 'Never-Fauci' ............where's the guy who said it will ''disappear like a miracle''. He's busy laughing counting all his money , after he got himself and his family vaccinated. Trump supporters explode in rage at Ivanka after she encourages others to get vaccinated
GOP obsessed with Fauci because he’s a symbol of their ‘attack on science’: Bush strategist On CNN Thursday, former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd highlighted why Republicans have been so fixated on demonizing National Institutes of Health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) did at a congressional hearing earlier in the day. "This is far from the first time we've seen Republicans try to beat up on Dr. Fauci," noted anchor Erin Burnett. "They love these moments. We saw it from Jim Jordan (R-OH) today and Rand Paul (R-KY) not long ago. That's how it's been. Why is the GOP so obsessed with going after Dr. Fauci?" "Well, I think this is fundamentally about the attack on science and data, and if it doesn't agree from many of the GOP perspective as science or data or knowledge or information doesn't agree with basically their emotional stand, they want to ignore it," said Dowd. "And I think that's the problem, I think, Dr. Fauci has here, because Dr. Fauci is trying to take a rational approach against people who have an emotional place in this." "The idea that this is about liberty and freedom, that somehow wearing masks. I would ask Jim Jordan, does he wear a seatbelt? Did he get his kids vaccinated when they went to school?" added Dowd. "All of these things have nothing to do with liberty or freedom, but that's where we are when we have reason and rationality on one side and emotional reactions and ideology on the other."
I have demonstrated multiple times that Fauci is a major offender of a new branch of fake science: Proclamation without scientific documentation. Fauci practices the most invidious from of fake science. He is a walking logical fallacy... pretending to be an expert on many subjects without providing the data and the science.
While she encouraged her followers to get vaccinated as well, some voiced their discontent with her decision and a distrust of the vaccine: “Nope not putting that in my body,” one follower wrote. “No thanks! With a 99% survival rate, I shall pass,” another said. “With Bill Gates involved I will not get one.” “Because of the 99.8% survival rate of a virus they’ve never identified? Anthony Fauci and Andrew Cuomo would be proud,” one follower added. “Ugh. A vaccine for a HOAX?” replied another. https://thehill.com/changing-americ...anka-trumps-vaccination-sparks-backlash-among The utter stupidity and arrogance of some people. May they get exactly what is coming to them, and may they keep it to themselves.