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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, had a straightforward message Wednesday night about how long the novel coronavirus could affect daily life in the US: "You don't make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline."
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"You've got to be realistic," Fauci told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "Prime Time."
"And you've got to understand that you don't make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline. So you've got to respond, in what you see happen. And if you keep seeing this acceleration, it doesn't matter what you say. One week, two weeks, three weeks -- you've got to go with what the situation on the ground is."
His comments appear at odds with President Donald Trump's growing desire to ease the public health guidelines that have shuttered businesses and kept workers at home as the virus has spread. The President has even said he wants the nation "opened up and just raring to go by Easter" -- a date just weeks away that few health experts believe will be sufficient in containing the outbreak.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/anthony-fauci-you-dont-make-the-timeline-the-virus-makes-the-timeline-on-relaxing-public-health-measures/ar-BB11Iggo?li=BBnb7Kz
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Cause that's who it sounds like he's talking to.
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)That is the milquetoast reporting that keeps jackass Trump from facing real consequences for his idiocy.
The statement is DIRECTLY contradicting what Trump wants. Trump said that he felt good about an Easter date because, "It is a beautiful day". No facts, no data, nothing that would indicate an informed decision.
Trump would like nothing better than to cast doubt on any expertise and knowledge and make everything about the force of one's opinion. Media HAS to stop that. They need to be better at challenging that. Your opinion is NOT better than my facts and data. He has to hear that over and over and over again. It won't change his mind but everyone watching the idiot needs to hear it too.