Fauci, and others, finally playing catchup

[Syne]

Aug 12, 2020:

I just read that the average age of Covid deaths is the same as the average US life expectancy. And the CDC codes Covid deaths as "death with Covid", rather than "death from Covid". History is likely going to show the damage done by people being duped and panicked exceeds that of the actual Chinese virus.

Dec 30, 2021

As The Washington Examiner reported, Fauci told Moheyldin that childhood COVID-19 cases were rising for a number of reasons, but that doesn’t necessarily mean cause for alarm.
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“But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,” Fauci added. “And what we mean by that — if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID. And they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual. When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So it’s over-counting the number of children who are, quote, ‘hospitalized with COVID,’ as opposed to because of COVID.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-now...d-familiar

So this supposed "expert" has finally realized what us non-experts have been saying for over a year.
And this is the single highest paid government official. 9_9

[Syne]

Twitter thread from Ben Shapiro:

“So once it became clear that covid was not in fact a pagan god visiting vengeance on the unwashed Trump voters alone, the media and Democrats are now willing to admit the following,” “The Ben Shapiro Show” host started the thread:

1. Cloth masks are ineffective against omicron (Leanna Wen, CNN);

2. The vaccinated can spread and get covid;

3. The death rate is comparable to the flu (Chris Hayes);

4. Many people are entering hospitals with covid, not from covid (Fauci);

5. Natural immunity is a reason omicron hasn’t been as virulent (Fauci);

6. We have to take into account societal needs, not just spread prevention (CDC);

7. The asymptomatic should not be tested (NFL);

8. We should focus on hospitalizations and deaths, not case rate (Biden);

9. Children are not at risk and schools should remain open;

10. Covid is predominantly an illness affecting the immunocompromised and elderly and we should not shut down society.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapi...t-covid-19

And I've been saying the death rate is more important than the case rate since November 2020:

The overall cumulative COVID-19-associated hospitalization rate through the week ending November 7, 2020 was 217.2 hospitalizations per 100,000 population.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nco...index.html

That's way less than 1%, much less your 1 in 5 (20%).

And the total US deaths is 254,563 compared to 11,715,041 infections. Again, only about a 0.02% death rate. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Hospitals are not being overwhelmed in the US.

NYC mayor Bill De Blassio has even changed his tune:

“The great danger here is shutdowns and restrictions,” the mayor added, referencing the curfews and stay-at-home orders from the spring of 2020. “That would really destroy, in so many ways, people’s livelihoods and it would, I think, after everything people have been through — it would be traumatizing.”
https://nypost.com/2021/12/17/de-blasio-...-lockdown/

He didn't mind all that harm when it meant beating Trump though.