Dr. Fauci: U.S. Couldn't Be Positioned More Poorly On COVID

 

 An exploding pandemic, with nearly 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day, has Dr. Anthony Fauci with no more f*cks to give:

President Trump’s repeated assertions the United States is “rounding the turn” on the novel coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading into a long and potentially deadly winter with an unprepared government unwilling to make tough choices.

“We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation,” Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. “All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”  [snip]

Fauci said former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign “is taking it seriously from a public health perspective.” Trump, Fauci said, is “looking at it from a different perspective.” He said that perspective was “the economy and reopening the country.”  [snip]

He also lamented that Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist and Trump’s favored pandemic adviser, who advocates letting the virus spread among young healthy people and reopening the country without restrictions, is the only medical adviser the president regularly meets with.

“I have real problems with that guy,” Fauci said of Atlas. “He’s a smart guy who’s talking about things that I believe he doesn’t have any real insight or knowledge or experience in. He keeps talking about things that when you dissect it out and parse it out, it doesn’t make any sense.”  (our emphasis)

Here's what that explosion looks like (click to enlarge):

This is going to be a ghastly fall and winter, with hospitals already using up available ICU beds and equipment, and exhausted doctors and nurses being asked to do the impossible with inadequate resources (thanks, Moscow Mitch, you two- legged rat!).  The toll in lives lost unnecessarily and the toll on our health care system will be profound and lasting.  And it was all simply because an incompetent, malignant moron and his cult of social Darwinists made the choice to duck responsibility for making tough choices for the common good, and instead opted for what they thought was good politics for that malignant moron. 

 

COVID Donnie's approach to the rising danger that Dr. Fauci warns of can be boiled down thusly:  depraved indifference. We have only one chance to begin to turn this around beginning in 2021, and we don't dare let it slip away. 

(Graph via the Washington Post)