Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and coronavirus task force member, offered some reassurance following the White House’s grim projection of up to 240,000 COVID-19 fatalities, during an interview on CBS Thursday morning.
Good on him for maintaining some level of composure. And it’s true.
Unfortunately so many others in and out of government are pushing the other way on mitigation.
When asked why we shouldn’t be discouraged by the “frightening” projection, Fauci responded that “it’s within our power to modify those numbers.”
Tell that to the dumbass Republican governors who refused to shut down their states.
And somehow, the man is getting threatened? I hope they have really major protection in place.
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There’s a lot of nasty things that are within our power to change for the better. But it always seems like we’re being held hostage by dumb asses.
From the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard, it looks like we’ll top 1 million cases worldwide today.
Of which the US will have roughly 1/4 of those cases.
Are we winning yet, Donnie?
So much winning, it makes me sick.
The problem is that what someone does today won’t affect the numbers for two or three weeks.
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No thanks, Pine. Will instead eat a second muffin from the batch my six-year-old daughter cooked this morning.
Don’t bite your fingers 
“We shouldn’t give up and accept and it and say ‘OK, that’s going to happen,’” Fauci said. “We need to push and push with the mitigation to try and get that number lower than the projected number by the model.”
So, you know, do stuff like a national stay-at-home, and using the DPA to get supplies and equipment made, and providing that to states and healthcare workers and first responders and patients at a fair cost and in adequate numbers, and providing financial support to those who need it.
The opposite of the “riding it out” strategy that Trump was trying to project onto unnamed others.
Likewise. There’s enough to worry about without scary morbid goriness…
Yes. The whole point of the United States–and one of the key reasons it’s had a global edge for a century–is that its a vast polity with enormous collective resources. The economic and organizational power of an American president is unmatched by any other head of state. The EU has for this very reason tried to increase its internal rapprochement–in part because it enables a concerted response to threats to common interests. Europeans envy the USA’s federal power at time like this–except, of course, that the Republican Party, which at bottom is hostile to the idea of federation except for the purpose of dominating the liberal majority for its own purposes, has now wrecked the advantage that has helped the USA dominate globally. We increasingly resemble another vast, dysfunctional, kleptocratic state–Russia.
We once had a president who told Americans The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Now the rallying cry has been reduced to I take no responsibility.
When the jobless people whose social security runs out have to live out of their cars and on the streets, the impact of the virus will lessen because they are getting wholesome fresh air and distancing their cardboard shelters from one another. Problem solved!
What kind of muffin?
I say we run a Go Fund Me campaign and erect a statue in a public space across the street from the entrance to Married-A-Loco of Anthony Fauci M.D. shaking hands with Barack Obama so Current Occupant will have to look at it for the rest of his post-Presidential life.
Cranberry Orange, I hope? Yummy…
