SocraticGadfly: Coronavirus week 97: Fauci talks endemic transition

February 17, 2022

Coronavirus week 97: Fauci talks endemic transition

COVID governmental grifter Anthony Fauci has dropped the other shoe on what he said a month or so ago, as I blogged here. The nation will transition from pandemic to endemic on the coronavirus, and he says in all likelihood later this year. Of course, much of his framing is full of bullshit. Public health mandates are now, and always have been, in the control of state and local officials, other than Biden's Medicare-Medicaid facilities vax mandate.

It would be Thomas Massie with the "gotcha" on claiming the CDC redefined vaccination. But, the fact is, it IS a "weaker" definition than the 2015-21 version. In turn, that was definitely "weaker" than the pre-2015 version.  The fact is, the newest version is most correct. BUT? It would have been the most correct back in 2015, as flu vaccines clearly demonstrate. So, why DID the CDC wait until now? It may not have been conspiratorial (or midterms elections oriented) in its intent, but it left itself open to that appearance.

Up north, the Green Party of Canada has denounced the so-called truckers protest, including for hatred, racism, and misogyny. Why do "dissident Greens" (actually no longer Greens if your state party was expelled, and arguably self-expelling with some fellow travelers) go into claims of false flags, raising of antisemitic tropes and more.

I have a library hold on "Viral," the Matt Ridley-Alina Chan book taking a serious, non-conspiracy theory (fuck you, Orac) look at the lab-leak hypothesis. A good review here.

The Texas Signal reports on the Nobel Prize nominations for vaccine pioneers Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi.

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