Explicit Covid-Denial is now Official Stance of the US Federal Government
Dr. Anthony Fauci's latest lies that the covid-19 pandemic is over flies in the face of data
The Chief Medical Advisor to US President Joe Biden wants you to know something - The Covid-19 pandemic is over in the United States. “We are certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase,” Dr. Anthony Fauci recently said on Biden’s state television program PBS News Hour.
“We are at a low level, right now.”
In fact, Center for Disease Control (CDC) data tells us that we’re pretty much in the midst of yet another covid-19 surge, which is unsurprising since the federal government has still yet to institute anything resembling a comprehensive, adequate response to the pandemic. According to CDC data, 38% of US counties are experiencing “substantial” to “high” transmission rates.
We’re also at a similar level of positive covid-19 cases as we were last summer, when Fauci and the rest of the government told us that we were still in the throes of a serious pandemic. In short, Dr. Fauci is lying when he tells us that the covid-19 pandemic is “over.”
This of course comes after Fauci lied to us when he said we didn’t need N95 masks to help protect us against the virus. Who knows how many thousands of deaths that lie contributed to.
This lie from Fauci and the federal government comes after many basic safety regulations were lifted at the demand of corporations, after they’ve fought against giving Americans healthcare, even after a million of us have died from this pandemic.
This lie comes after they lied to us about covid relief cash payments to win Senate seats, after they’ve refused to forgive debt, require corporations they bailed out with billions of our dollars to keep workers employed, after they’ve refused to even give us all masks and covid tests.
This lie comes after they’ve refused to ensure paid-leave for workers infected with and otherwise seriously affected by covid-19. This lie from Fauci might become more convincing because our government and the leaders of other wealthy nations have ordered a slow-down of covid-tracking,, which will make it more difficult to check their assertions with facts.
The federal government has been utterly consistent throughout this pandemic in denying it, and refusing to adequately address it. This consistency has spanned both the Trump and Biden administrations.
Effective covid denial and callousness is the default posture of the US government in 2022 just as it was in 2020. As Dr. Fauci pivots to full-blown pandemic denial, it is more clear than ever that Biden and the Democrats have the same approach to covid-19 as Donald Trump and Republicans do, they only pretended their approach would be different in order to get elected.