Coronavirus Week 116: BA.2.75 and Bye Bye Fauci!

First, yes, there's yet another Omicron variant on the horizon. Katharine Wu talks about that and other Omicron evolutionary tricks at The Atlantic.

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Orac (David Gorski) rails against doomsday slingers who claim you can get reinfected every two weeks. May not be true; but will he and a co-politicizer of Bidenism/Blue Anon respond to my sending them last week's post, where Australian public health officials said you CAN get reinfected every four weeks? Probably not. Orac's a tribalist, beyond his original tribalism, on all things Dem in general I think, and definitely, re COVID, on things like the lab leak hypothesis and St. Anthony of Fauci ...

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Saying bye-bye! And we'll wave back. Now, it might be two full years or more, but good riddance to the man who told a Platonic noble lie about masking early in 2020, which undermined his medical high ground (MAGAts might well have mostly ignored him anyway, but reaching 5 percent more of them than he actually did would have been something). This, in tern, was part of larger Trump-like minimalization of COVID. He and then followed that with further, less Platonic and more ignoble lies, like his Overton window shifting on percentages needed for "herd immunity," or his flat-out lies by definition on gain-of-function research.

As for Fauci decrying politicization? Yes, Trump, Rand Paul and others did it much more than him, but, contra his "who, me?" pose, he's not innocent. And, like Orac, he's claimed that everybody who doesn't agree with him are rejecting "data and science" and are "conspiracy theorists." Wrong, oh butt-hurt bureaucratic infighter.

As for tribalism on COVID? Teynep Tufekci, who was among the first to call out Fauci's Platonic noble lie on masks, has also called out COVID tribalism in general.