Dr Fauci Says We Can Hug Our Family Members At Home If We've Had The Shot

According to Fox News,

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that it's "very likely" that family members who have been vaccinated against coronavirus can safely hug each other.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director explained that what vaccinated individuals can safely do with family members and in a public setting differ greatly.

If an individual is vaccinated and with another person who is vaccinated, the things they can do are "much, much more liberal in the sense of pulling back on stringent public health measures," Fauci said during an interview on MSBNC with host Andrea Mitchell.

But wait a moment. Last August he said people could hook up on Tinder, and that was even before the jab:

"[I]t's what's called relative risk," Fauci said. "If you're willing to take a risk — and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks — you could figure out if you want to meet somebody."

. . . "If you're looking for a friend, sit in a room and put a mask on, and you know, chat a bit. If you want to go a little bit more intimate, well, then that's your choice regarding a risk," Fauci said.

So let me see. Just this past week, what he seemed to be saying was that if they've both been vaccinated, your toddler can hug mama, or something like that, as long as it's in private. (I assume doing it in public would set a bad example.) But last August, if you wanted to hook up wth a stranger, no vax involved, that was up to you. Is there one rule for swingers and another for the nuclear family, or what?

But people are starting to notice that anything like a policy statement from Fauci should be written in wind and running water:

Remember that line 'you can still spread it even if you get vaccinated? What kind of anti-science crapola is that? On top of this illogical tripe, we have ever-changing narratives coming from the so-called expert class that is driving all of us insane (via NBC News):

A growing body of evidence suggests that the Covid-19 vaccine can slow the spread of the coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday. Whether vaccination can prevent transmission of the virus is “the looming question,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a White House coronavirus response team briefing. “If a person gets infected despite being vaccinated — we refer to that as a ‘breakthrough’ infection — does that person have the capability of transmitting to another person?”

“There have been some studies that are pointing in a very favorable direction,” he said, adding that these studies will have to be corroborated by additional research.

Fauci highlighted two recent studies that looked at a person’s viral load — that is, how much virus he or she has in the body — and transmissibility.

The main problem is that for Fauci, talking to the media is like singing in the shower. He likes to hear himself, and that's about it. If he contradicts himself week in and week out, that's not a bug, it's a feature.

On serious matters of public policy, the government needs to have a clear and consistent message. The White House and the CDC need to be on the same page. But Fauci isn't even the CDC, though he has a high-paying job there, he's just running off at the mouth on his own account, with an official position to give him a platform for it.

This is where the Trump White House communications office fell down badly. Fauci should have been told to coordinate all remarks via the White House in his official capacity, and if he didn't, he should have effectively had his mike turned off. The Biden White House is making the same mistake -- if anything, it's worse. At least Dr Birx had the sense to retire once xhe embarrassed herself.

The Mars Rover And The Dinosaurs

The other day I was browsing the web for news of the lunar rover's landing. What I noticed was that the TV broadcasters were all reading from the same script, apparently approved by the Bilderbergs, but even more jarring was they were all wearing the same rictus that North Korean broadcasters affect to celebrate Dear Leader's birthday. This was a major, major event.

The reason for this latest multibillion-dollar excursion, as indeed the expressed reason on the TV specials for all the previous ones, is to find evidence of life on Mars. And this has been a national effort not too far in scope from the Manhattan Project. Somehow our way of life, or democracy, or civilization or something, hangs in the balance. Wha? To me, as I would guess to vast numbers of other people, whether the rover landed on Mars was about as critical as whether Tom Brady won the Super Bowl.

So I thought back to the TV special I saw last weekend about the mission. I won't cite which one, I think they were all scripted by the Bilderbergs and said the same things. Mars once had water. Then the water went away after a billlion years. But a billion years is long nough for microbes and such to evolve. After all, what you need for life is water and other stuff. Leave water around long enough and let lightning and volcanes stir things up, and voila, microbes.

So the Perseverance rover is gonna use its little shovel and stuff and dig up the microbes, or at least the microbe fossils, and basically prove the above standard wisdom.

But this actually illustrates the problem of the dinosaurs. In the mid 19th century, as dinosaur and other fossils were discovered, this posed questions about the age of the Earth. If dinosaurs existed a gazillion years ago, this meant that conjectures, ostensibly based on scripture, that the Earth was created 6000 years ago were incorrect, although scripture itself mentions no such number and has nothing specific to say on the subject. This was a problem largely for Evangelicals at the time, but mainstream Christianity has never been much disturbed by it.

But the dinosaurs over time became a much bigger problem for Darwinians. Fossil evidence cuts both ways. If life evolved via a process of random natural selection that started with simmering primordial soup, with speciation a very gradual process where rats turned seamlessly into guinea pigs and so forth, why do we have sudden cancellations of whole biological orders? If things got warmer or cooler, why didn't we just get fat dinosaurs with fuzzy scales or something? Instead, the whole idea just suddenly didn't work any longer, and although there are still cockroaches, there aren't any dinosaurs at all.

This is the origin of the big asteroid theory of Earth's history. At some point, an asteroid left a crater that created Yucatan, and that explains why the dinosaurs didn't just evolve their way along. (Wha?) In other words, the dinosaurs have actually been a bigger problem for the secularist theory of life than they were for certain schools of Evangelical thought. They're what might be called a metaproblem.

Mars represents a similar metaproblem for secularism. The first Mars probes that sent back photos were the start for this branch of the problem. It could be theorized that life might have evolved separately on Mars even given the climatic conditions we surmised were present on the planet -- after all, microbes thrive on Earth in extreme cold at low oxygen levels. But the first Mars photos showed there was no persuasive evidence that any such thing had ever taken place there.

Nor has any subsequent probe or rover proven anything else. This is probably the inspiration for the name Perseverance. They're gonna persevere at this search, presumably until they can find the evidence they want. If this one, or the next one, or the ome afer that, finds even a fossil bacterium, wham, that'll prove it. Life is not unique. Humans are not unique. The whole theistic scriptural project has been a huge evolutionary dead end.

Well, good luck. But we shouldn't kid ourselves about the nature and objective of this incrediblly huge boondoggle.

The Campaign Against Human Nature

The photo above appears regularly as a Facebook ad. What's begun to occur to me is that there's been no change in the COVID narrative. There's simply no information on how to sign up for a shot, where you cqn go, what the lines are like, or whatever -- in fact, Mayor Garcetti closed many sites last week for lack of vaccine, but there's no info on whether they've reopened or what this week's supply is like.

I went to Kaiser yesterday for a shingles shot, which was hard ebough to go through, what with an entitled medicql staff taking its time to do any tasks at all. But the tech asked me if I had any intention of getting a COVID shot. I said of course, but we can't get them from Kaiser. In fact, my wife fianlly got an appointment next month at Rite Aid, but Kaiser still says they're just doing front line workers and over-75,

So I'm not sure if the lizard people even want us to get the shot. I see a lot of opinion that they and the Bilderbergs want to give us the shot so we'll be genetically modified or something, but in fact, whoever does run the planet isn't moving all that fast to do it. Biden says the minarities don't know how to sign up, and apparently he's copacetic with that. In fact, nobody's running ads showing specifically how to sign up to anyone, black, white, or zebra.

And the background noise for some weeks has been that, two shots or not, everyone's got to keep wearing a mask until whenever. This is not a temporary measure any longer. I keep thinking of a homily I heard on line six or eight months ago sayng people need to see faces, people need to gather, people need to have friends and family. This all goes against human nature.

Meanwhile, the prophet Bill Gates is saying two shots won't be enough, but also, we need to move to synthetic meat. You can bet that one guy who won't have to eat synthetic meat will be the prophet Bill Gates. But if he speaks for the Bilderbergs or the lizard people, it's getting plainer by the day that these folks have the object of lowering living standards for everyone, or at least everyone but themselves. But the Biblical message is that people should prosper.

I wasn't a regular Rush Limbaugh listener. I think his health had been declining for several years. He used to say we aren't here just to debate these people, we have to defeaat them utterly.

He had a point.

Dr Fauci On The Take? How Could This Be???

Yesterday I speculated that Dr Fauci, in the course of overstaying his 15 minutes of fame, could potentially fall victim to revelations of kickbacks or MeToo. But my wife pointed out that his million-dollar prize for "defending science" was exactly a payoff, in the same way that Hunter Biden's recent book deal, which involves an undisclosed payment for a manuscript that will inevitably be ghostwritten, is a payoff to both Hunter and his dad.

Well, a hooker is paid a speciric fee for a particular sexual act, and this is against the law. An excort is paid for a particular amount of time, in which activities are not specified, and this is perfectly legal. The same principle is at work here.

So what was Dr Fauci paid for? He already earned $417,608 in 2019, the highest paid employee in the US government. (That amount probably doesn't account for other lagniappes, bonuses, deferred compensation, and the like) A milllion bucks is chump change, but so far, I haven't seen any mention that he plans to donate it to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Well, Alan Dershowitz, about as impartial an observer as they come, said just the other day that he thought COVID cost Trump the election, though he wasn't sure if any incumbent could have won it under those circumstances. And Fauci was the face of COVID, complaining to the press throughout the year that Trump wasn't listening to him.

Right. Go on a cruise. Don't bother with a mask. Wait a moment. Flatten the curve. Socially distance. Stay home. Wear a mask. Wear two masks. Trump was rightly skeptical, and Fauci should in justice have been fired, but whether it would hve helped Trump is still unknown.

But someone clearly thought Fauci beat Trump and gave him a million bucks. That's still chump change. As Frederick T Gates said to John D Rockefeller after Gates negotiated the sale of Rockefeller Steel to JP Morgan, "Mr Rockefeller, thank you is not enough."

For Dr Fauci, it sounds like a million bucks was enough. That sums up Fauci..

Dr Fauci, Acclaimed Scientist

In yesterday's news:

Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for “defending science” and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Monday named President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser as the winner of one of three prizes. It said he had earned the recognition over a lifetime of leadership on HIV research and AIDS relief, as well as his advocacy for the vaccines against COVID-19.

In its statement, the private foundation did not mention former President Donald Trump, who undermined Fauci’s follow-the-science approach to the pandemic. But it credited Fauci with “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging COVID crisis.”

“As the COVID-19 pandemic unraveled, (Fauci) leveraged his considerable communication skills to address people gripped by fear and anxiety and worked relentlessly to inform individuals in the United States and elsewhere about the public health measures essential for containing the pandemic’s spread,” the foundation’s awards committee said, praising Fauci for “speaking truth to power in a highly charged political environment.”

What I've seen of Dr Fauci, which I've discussed frequently here, is that his public statements are frequently contradictory, and in fact they frequently acknowledge that there is in fact no scientific basis for his pronouncements. In general, his positions confuse "science" with secluarist materialism and have nothing to do with a viewpoint that encourages experimental confirmation, reproducibility of results, or peer review.

Meanwhile,

The partisan campaign arm for House Democrats has been raising money from a "Thank You” card for infectious disease physician Dr. Anthony Fauci, raising ethical questions about using a government official to endorse political activities.

Former President Trump was often accused by Democrats of abuse of the Hatch Act, which prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in some forms of political activity. However, the Hatch Act contains broad exceptions for the president and vice president, exceptions which would not extend to Fauci, who serves as chief medical advisor to President Biden.

The DCCC ad includes a photo with Fauci standing and speaking from the podium in the White House press briefing room with the official White House logo prominently displayed. "Thank You, Dr. Fauci!" the site reads. "Sign the card to thank Dr. Fauci for his work." When a user clicks through and enters in an email address to sign the digital "card," a fundraising page comes up and asks users to donate.

Fauci is just another public phony in a long line, at this point probably starting to overstay his 15 minutes of fame. I suspect his narcissism will catch up with him at some point, with some public disclosure of kickbacks, groping, or whatever else to send him back to obscurity.

The basic contradiction in Fauci's public persona is that he's a timeserving deep-state bureaucrat who's been elevated to a position of greatness where he doesn't belong. Inevitably there's a regression to the mean.

2021: The Year Of Incompetence?

If 2020 was the year of the dumpster fire, I'm beginning to wonder if 2021 won't be quite so bad, mainly because things are shaping up where the people who are trying to make things bad for us in the plebs are incompetent. Let's take a few current events, the Trump "impeachment", the TJ Ducklo "resignatiom", and Gavin Newsom.

It's hard to figure out just what the Democrats and a few Republicans had in mind with trying to "impeach" a president who'd already been voted out, who was completely out of the government at the time the "trial" occurred, and over which the chief justice, presumably an authority on its constitutionality, apparently declined to preside. The foreordained result was acquittal, which surprised no one but Speaker Pelosi, who lost her temper.

They narrowly beat Trump in November. The best I can surmise is that the Democrats deeply feared the potential for Trump running again in 2024 -- but as the conventional wisdom goes, thngs can happen next week that change everything, why spend so much energy and prestige on what might or might not happen in 2024? And of course, the Republicans who were squishy on the "trial" probably ended their careers.

If Pelosi and Schumer were trying to make things bad for the plebs,, they didn't display competence in the attempt.

Now let's look at TJ Ducklo. (I'm not sure what I'd do if I had a surname that reminded people of a duck. It's possible, given the report of his threats against a Politico reporter, that he compensates for the unserious name by trying to terrify people, which I guess is one strategy, though it didn't work out for him here.)

I've already noted that his boss, Whte House press secretary Psaki, has quickly earned a reputation for incompetence herself, and she certainly lived up to it in l'affaire Ducklo. First, it comes out that Ducklo threatened, insulted, and abused Tara Palmeri in a profanity-laced rant. only weeks after the president assured his staff that doing this would get them fired on the spot. (Palmeri, acrtually, comes off in her public persona as not much more serious than Ducklo. This whole thing just looks like a spat among the high school social set.)

So press secretary Psaki's reaction, rather than to follow the announced policy and fire duckboy on the spot, is to ask him to apologize or something, which he doesn't quite do. So then, certainly under pressure from other high school movers and shakers, she announces duckboy is to be suspended, without pay, for a week. When that doesn't work, duckboy finally resigns a few days later -- doubtless, as some commentators have suggested, with the assurance there's a prestigious job for him at CNN or someplace like that.

But, as other commentators have also suggested, the one thing they never did was what Biden said they would, fire duckboy on the spot. This was all a tiff between the prom king and the prom queen anyhow. The White House staff and press corps came off yet again as an incestuous cabal of the unserious.

Last we have Gov Newsom and his asociates, who appear to have been caught napping by the recall campaign, which as of this writing has almost certainly achieved the required 1.5 million signatres and will likely reach 2 million by next month's deadline. For weeks, Democrat insiders had been dismissing the effort, simply repeating the mantra that "no Republican has won statewide office in 16 years". Nevertheless, the last governor to be recalled was a Democrat, and he lost to a Republican.

Now the story has shifted. Newsom is polishing his image. I think he needs more than polishing at this point. There are a couple of problems for Newsom even if he beats back the recall effort. The first is that the campaign, which at this point is likely to take place, will be expensive and drain Democrat resourcres for 2022.

The second is that a recall election differs from a regular gubernatorial election in that there's no primary, there's just a range of candidates against one incumbent. The winner just needs a plurality, assuming the governor is recalled. This means that, depending on how the campaign shakes out, other candidates can split Newsom's vote, even if they're Democrats.

Insiders, who'd been dismissing the recall up to a few weeks ago, have already said it's now too late to stop the election. It doesn't look so far as though Newsom has thought to do much more than polish his image.

You don't get figs from thistles. Nor do screwups very frequently accomplish what they set out to do, however nefarious their intent.

Incompetence On Display

One of the first things I learned more or less in adolescence is that there are no surprises in politics, especially for someone at the level of the US House Speaker. The result of Impeachment 2.0 was never in doubt. She could bully her party in the House to vote for impeachment, but the Senate was going to follow its own rules, and it was understood from the start that there would never be the votes to convict.

So why was Speaker Pelosi so angry with Mitch NcConnell? He was playing the game. In fact, I have a sense that most political leadership recognizes slmost all the time that they and their opponents are playing a game by an established set of rules, and scripted outrage is part of the whole show.

What Pelosi did was pretty clearly not scripted. It was an angry rant over an outcome that was never in doubt. It was made all the more feckless by being delivered through a mask in a lisping mumble.

The ncouraging thing is that these people are in fact incompetent.