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Anthony Fauci, the 82 year old chief infectious disease expert in the United States, is finally retiring. Next month, he will resign as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser of the White House.
Fauci has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years and worked for 50 years.
At the end of August, he told the New York Times that he would give up and old cadres would continue to use their surplus heat. He would go around the United States to have a look. If he was energetic, he would engage in writing and recommend outstanding young people to work in the government health department.
As the “elder of the seven dynasties”, Anthony Fauci has experienced the American HIV outbreak, West Nile virus, anthrax, pandemic influenza, avian influenza threat, Ebola virus, Zika virus
However, the biggest challenge of his career was the COVID-19 epidemic before he retired.
Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, Fauci even attended the last White House press conference in a noisy atmosphere.
On November 22, when Fauci answered reporters’ questions at the press conference, he was not asked by the host Karin Diana Glebova, a right-wing journalist named by Pierre, repeatedly and loudly asked about the origin of COVID-19.
A quarrel broke out between the two sides in front of Fauci. Karin angrily scolded the reporter, “I’ve had enough. I don’t want to tangle with you.”
Fauci’s reminder of the importance of the epidemic was drowned out by the farce.
In the past three months, as he was about to retire, he had no official position, so Fauci made frequent comments on the media. On September 19, he put forward different views on the American view of “coexistence with viruses”.
Fauci believes that “coexistence with virus” is impossible, because COVID-19 is constantly changing, while smallpox virus will not change every year. We already have smallpox vaccine, which can provide lifelong immunity for human beings, but COVID-19 has not yet been eradicated by its vaccine, so it cannot “coexist”.
However, Biden’s statement on September 18 that “the epidemic in the United States has ended” has a great impact. Many Americans do not even want to vaccinate, because Biden also said, “No one wears masks anymore. Everyone looks very healthy”.
At that time, Fauci did not publicly refute Biden, because he was afraid of the mid-term election in November. Biden needed to use his “outstanding achievements” in the fight against the epidemic to increase the public’s support for the Democratic Party.
From the perspective of the epidemic situation in the United States in the past three years, Fauci has always been in a very tangled role. He is not only an expert in the field of infectious disease prevention, but also a politician.
As an expert, he was repeatedly encircled and suppressed by the Republican Party for telling the truth during Trump’s period, and even the legislators called him to the Congress to help them.
After Biden came to power, the Democratic Party’s epidemic prevention relied on a mouth and used the media to create the illusion of “quiet years”. However, with sufficient vaccines, Biden’s epidemic prevention “achievements” and the number of deaths were more than those in Trump’s period.
Fauci was clear about this, but he became more tactful. He only talked about strengthening vaccination (booster injection), as if he had become the spokesman of vaccine manufacturers. The measures to strengthen epidemic prevention restrictions are not discussed, and try to do a good job as a politician.
However, Fauci finally came out last week to publicly refute the myth that “the US pandemic has ended” and hit Biden in the face.
On Sunday, Fauci said in a program of NBC News that “the United States must still be in the COVID-19 pandemic”.
He said, “I don’t care whether you are a right-wing Republican or a left-wing Democrat, everyone should enjoy good public health security (epidemic prevention conditions), but this did not happen.”
He also pointed out that 300 to 400 people in the United States still die of COVID-19 every day.
“I hope to bring the principles of science, medicine and public health back to the very serious crisis we have encountered. I have tried my best.”
Fauci’s talk was very long and rich. He mainly said three questions:
1? The United States cannot pretend not to see that the epidemic is still spreading. In winter, it is fatal for the vulnerable groups (the economically disadvantaged or the elderly and infirm).
2? The party struggle between the two parties politicized the epidemic, leaving science and public health knowledge behind.
3? As an expert and an official, I have done my best and I am worthy of my work.
Fauci’s talk is not only a denial of Biden’s nonsense, but also embarrasses those who think the US epidemic is “over”.
Do some people who always say that they should “trust experts and professionals” really think so? Not so. They just believe in the West. To be exact, they just believe in the “quiet and good” atmosphere created by the western media.
With the negative anti epidemic attitude of the US government, how can the US epidemic be ended?
However, when the media regard human life as a number and the society becomes numb to death, the living people will feel “the years are quiet”. After all, the dead have no opportunity to complain and comment.
People who are qualified to do nucleic acid are still doing it, and they are also doing it in a timely manner. So is Fauci.
Those who are “free” continue to be “happy”.
The American political and business elites and ordinary people get what they need, so everyone is happy.
At the same time, it should be noted that although Fauci is reminding the US government to strengthen the prevention and control of winter epidemic, he still opposes strict prevention and control measures.
Fauci’s idea of epidemic prevention is to bet on vaccines.
He emphasizes the importance of vaccines in almost every public speech. Reinforcing needle, reinforcing needle, reinforcing needle… This is the word he mentioned most.
“To improve the vaccination rate, the vaccination rate in the United States is not enough, so we should strengthen vaccine research and development.” If COVID-19 is not so “good at” mutation, Fauci’s idea of epidemic prevention may be correct.
But COVID-19 does not cooperate. Three years of global epidemic proves that it is more cunning than other viruses.
From the perspective of the whole world, countries have no shortcut to achieve effective epidemic prevention.
As a superpower, the United States and India, one of the largest developing countries, are still vividly reminded of their terrible tragedies in 2020 and 2021, when even the bodies of the dead were not cremated.
Last year, the circle of friends was painting the words, “When there are funerals in the neighborhood, there is no chung; when there are funerals in the neighborhood, there is no street singing”? Forget it?
How many lives has China’s epidemic prevention policy avoided in the past three years? One million, two million, three million…… Cannot be estimated.
Life is priceless, but if the epidemic is left unchecked, life will become cold statistics.
This year, many people in China are cynical about nucleic acid testing and strengthening prevention and control measures, which is understandable. After all, no one wants to be affected,
But the virus will not stop spreading because of our complaints, nor will it slow down because of the Internet noise.
For some time, there have been many arguments on the Internet that the United States has been “fully open”, believing that it is right to do so. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are also earnestly urging China to give up in order to promote global economic development.
However, how can a country that hopes your economy will collapse break its heart for your economic development at the same time?
China has a population of 1.4 billion, and per capita medical resources are not rich. Can we do this? The total number of vulnerable people in COVID-19 who are 60 years old and over is nearly 300 million. When a large-scale tragedy occurs and the medical system collapses, will the complainers complain that the country is ignoring life?
We all understand the reason.
In fact, the complaints of the vast majority of people are not against the epidemic prevention policy, but rather the brutal style of some grass-roots governments, or even barbarism.
In some places, it is easy to cut across the board, closing cities and schools, stopping production, cutting off traffic… putting the cart before the horse.
When these problems are repeated, people’s dissatisfaction will continue to accumulate, and the society will be in danger of being torn apart.
What is most needed for epidemic prevention is unity. The deeper the social rift is, the greater the cost of epidemic prevention will be, and the results of all efforts will be greatly reduced.
We do not want to return to the state before the epidemic, but the objective facts do not allow us to pretend that we cannot see the terrible epidemic.
It is true that there are shortcomings in epidemic prevention, but this is no reason to give up epidemic prevention.
In fact, Fauci never advocated that the United States should “fully open up”.
On October 3, he was talking to Dan, a reporter of the Washington Post Diamond said in an interview, “No one is perfect, and I certainly am not. I once suggested that there is no need to change the lifestyle in places with extremely low cases. But the media drew the conclusion from my remarks that the epidemic can be prevented without changing the lifestyle”. He said he felt sad.
This only shows that in the United States, some people want to engage in a cruel social Darwinian “death wheel” and eliminate those lives that they think are “worthless”.
Perhaps it was “people will leave, and their words will be good”, or perhaps it was driven by the instinct of a lifelong medical profession, Fauci finally said some truth.
But Fauci’s advice can’t change anything, because the United States has already “won the hemp”!
After Fauci retires, if he really wants to make full use of his surplus heat, he should study it carefully. How did the damn virus come from?