Gotta Love This Headline
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And this important reminder:
California's governor issued a state mandate last week requiring all residents to wear a face mask when out in public, something that's received push back from some politicizing the governor's order.
Fauci emphasized the importance of following the mask requirement.
"Everybody should wear a mask when out public," Fauci said during Wednesday's conversation.
During the conversation with the Sacramento Press Club, Fauci also praised Gov. Gavin Newsom's handling of the pandemic, saying he has been "ahead of the curve."
"He's got a really good sense of what to do," Fauci said.
And a month later, he reviewed New York’s Cuomo’s performance: “He did it right.”
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on Friday praised New York for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the state did it “correctly.”
“We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York,” Fauci said in an interview on “PBS NewsHour.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo instituted some of the strictest reopening requirements in the country, insisting that stay-at-home orders remain in place and many businesses remain closed far longer than other states.
Fauci was exposed as a fraud as far back as 1983, when he published an article in JAMA stating that AIDS could be transmitted by children and casual contacts at home.
We now know of course that Fauci’s theory was wrong. HIV, the virus that was later discovered to cause AIDS, only transmits by exposure to infected bodily fluids such as blood, or by sexual contact. The infant infection discussed in the same JAMA issue involved vertical transmission from the mother to child during pregnancy.
The damage was already done though, as the media went to work stoking alarm about AIDS transmission through simple routine contacts. Hundreds of newspapers disseminated the distressing theory from Fauci’s article. Writing a few weeks later, conservative columnist Pat Buchanan enlisted Fauci as the centerpiece of a rebuttal against Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler, who told him “there is no evidence…that the general population is threatened by [AIDS].”
On July 14, both Buchanan’s column and its excerpt of Fauci’s article were entered into the congressional record along with moralizing commentary that assigned blame for the disease to homosexual establishments and gatherings. Unfounded fears of transmission risk through simple contact, and accompanying social ostracization of the disease’s victims, became one of the most notorious and harmful missteps of the entire AIDS epidemic.
He should have been forced to retire in disgrace for that bit of negligence/inccompetence/ or duplicity then; today, I’d say hanging him by his heels might be too lenient.
