National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci couldn’t offer any assurance regarding an end to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. during a series of interviews Sunday morning.
Fauci, going off the party line again.
Why he hasn’t been tweet-fired is beyond me.
“Hunker down.” The cliché advice every time we have a hurricane. It’s a meme around here. But we know what it means and we can do it.
Fauci isn’t really raising more uncertainty; he’s being honest about what we know and what we don’t know, which is a lot more than the rest of the Trump administration has been.
Time to curl up with a good book…
Torn between “A Distant Mirror” and the “The Stand”…
The Stand is a little too much on the nose, don’t you think…
Dr Fauci is the most competent talking head the Administration has sent out, but it just shows how insufficient the Trump Administration’s response has been. If you want to see a competent response from a government official, see this interview by the Singapore Foreign Minister:
No BS. Serious, but clear, communication on what is happening, how long and what steps are being taken. Not panic-inducing, not unbelievable happy talk.
Why can’t we have that here?
Fauci is “not sure” about the outbreak’s duration
Those of us who are of a certain age remember the movie, ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’ with the Pope constantly harassing Michelangelo as to ‘when [he] would make an end’ to the work of painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
The famous MA answer was ‘When I’m Finished!’.
That’s how long the outbreak’s duration will be; it’ll be over when it’s finished.
“I would like to see a dramatic diminution of the personal interaction we see in restaurants and in bars,” Fauci said.
Or pubs. Right, Congressman Nunes?
I’ll send an Uber to take him to one in his district.
On the topic at hand I’m uncertain that there is much more uncertainty that can be raised.
If anyone here not clear on the concept of staying in, maybe take a walk but do turn off the damn TV and read or finger paint…whatever.
At the least, this is a grownup speaking to us in language that tries neither to conceal or minimize. This event will have to run its course and how long that might be is anyone’s guess at this point.
The split screen difference between Fauci (first hired by Reagan 
) and the bozos and grifters in the trump administration is stunning. They can’t fire him, just like trump can’t fire Powell - w/o tanking the markets and causing panic.
And Fauci will be the marker against which the failures of trump and co will be judged (and bossert)…
And oh, how about this…
Jan 27, 2020. When “no one could of known” in trump’s words.
This is very sobering indeed, but exactly what the American people need to hear, rather than the criminally stupid advice from Nunes, Cornyn, and Trump, among others.
Are we going to listen to a serious, dedicated, highly intelligent doctor and infectious disease specialist or a reality show clown? And I fear the answer to that fundamental question.
For the 45% who support tRumps mishandling of Covid-19 here’s a nifty project that’ll keep you safe…
No way this guy makes it past next Wednesday. He’ll be fired.
Telling the truth always gets you a pink-slip in the Rump Admin.
He is still effective as a blame absorber.
Pretty sure the repercussions would be brutal. Trump knows he’s underwater with this thing, and down so far deep the fish are nightmarishly weird. He’s better off to let Fauci talk.
Trump is a grifting hustler and fascist.
Fauci works for Trump.
But I would say that Fauci is un-fireable.
There would be hell to Pay, and Trump knows it.
And in that sense we can see the difference between a Public Servant like Bob Mueller and Fauci.
Lawyering can gin up all kinds of varying interpretations
Diseasing gins up disease
And this virus does not give a FUCK whether some GOP Senator is in the “majority” or not.
BTW, your title is inaccurate at best. Sucks at worst.
Saying, “I don’t know” isn’t being “uncertain” it’s being honest.
When asked by MSNBC’s Chuck Todd about whether he prefers a 14-day national shutdown to slow down the outbreak
America doesn’t get it. The only thing that’s going to work is a 2 to 3 month italy/china type shutdown. Anything less is just “do something!™” gestures.
Every two weeks we delay starting the shutdown adds another zero to the eventual body count, and lengthens the needed duration of the shutdown.
Dr. Fauci, thank you for speaking candidly.
Trump, 
being so selfish
Mnuchin, referring to panic buying as a boom
Nunes, moooooronic and dangerous advice to go out
And for FFS, follow the guidelines from medical experts and institutions!