After the tragic experience that resulted from scoffing at medical science and lashing out at public health professionals, some politicians are finally flipping as a requisite of self-preservation.
The Former Guy surrendered to the pandemic as infections and deaths soared under his impotent leadership. Increasingly, Republicans who learned the hard way are not making that mistake again. Even the crackpots' own propaganda outlets are acknowledging the surrender to truth:
Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivey has joined the Biden Administration and the CDC in attacking “unvaccinated” residents in her own state, blaming them for rising “cases” of COVID-19. It is “time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks” for rising cases of Covid-19...
Florida officials defy DeSantis as infections spike
Local officials across Florida are bucking Gov. Ron DeSantis and his anti-mandate coronavirus strategy as infections soar in the state and nation. They’re imposing vaccine and mask requirements for government workers and even declaring states of emergency. In a sign of how worrisome the new Covid-19 surge is, Disney World is ordering all guests over 2-years-old to wear masks indoors at its Florida theme park, regardless of vaccination status.
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said
that the COVID-19 “vaccines are saving lives.”
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“If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chances of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID is effectively zero,” DeSantis said during a Wednesday press briefing.
“If you look at the people being admitted to hospitals, over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated. And so these vaccines are saving lives.”
The ideological dogmatists who fell in line behind the vacuous blowhards are witnessing the same belated renaissance in the fact of anthropogenic climate change.
When reality is your adversary, and it advances relentlessly, you may as well just close your eyes and think of England.
Fauci’s flip-flops: How ‘America’s Doctor’ has repeatedly reversed himself during Covid crisis
From masks to school closures to preexisting immunity, Fauci’s advice appears to change to suit the moment.
When Dr. Anthony Fauci argued earlier this month that the massive Democratic stimulus bill was key to getting schools reopened, it wasn’t the first time the superstar doctor had gone back on his own advice.
“The default position should be to try as best as possible within reason to keep the children in school, or to get them back to school,” said the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The reopening of schools, Fauci emphasized, could be accomplished with little risk.
“If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not really very big at all, not like one would have suspected,” he said. “So, let’s try to get the kids back.”
But within a few short months, Fauci’s position had undergone notable change. Reopening schools was now contingent on passage of the legislative centerpiece of the Biden administration’s domestic agenda, a colossal, $1.9 trillion Covid relief package.
“The schools really do need more resources,” Fauci told George Stephanopoulos on Feb. 14. “And that’s the reason why [the $1.9 trillion] that we’re talking about getting passed, we need that,” he continued. “The schools need more resources.”
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Fauci in July had claimed that human T cells have the potential for “preventing the cells that are infected from making new viruses,” perhaps stemming from “memory from other coronaviruses that are benign [such as] cold viruses.”
Yet by the time he appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in September, Fauci had apparently decided that theory had no merit.
“[T]here was a study that recently came out that preexisting immunity to coronaviruses that are common cold do not cross-react with the COVID-19,” Fauci said in a tense exchange with Paul about the potential for herd immunity in the U.S. populace.
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On masks, Fauci famously went against his own initial advice
Perhaps most notably over the course of the pandemic, Fauci did a near-complete reversal on the subject of face coverings, becoming seemingly all at once one of the biggest champions of masks in the country.
At the outset of COVID’s arrival in the U.S., Fauci urged the public to refrain from wearing face coverings.
“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” Fauci said in early March of last year. “When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.”
Less than a month later, in early April, Fauci reversed that position, urging the public instead to don masks while out in public. He cited “recent information” showing that “the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak as opposed to coughing and sneezing,” making face masks essential for slowing the spread of COVID-19.
