What if the coronavirus was here to stay and we were all forced to learn to live with it and deal with it? Well, according to Dr. Fauci, that’s no make-believe nightmare but our actual and expected prognosis.
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In an interview last Saturday with NBC Sports, White House COVID-19 task force standout and director of the National Institutes for Health since 1984 Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered some startling news that most Americans either didn’t hear or didn’t want to hear: the novel coronavirus is here to stay.
“It is so transmissible, and it is so widespread throughout the world, that even if our infections get well-controlled and go down dramatically during the summer, there is virtually no chance it will be eradicated,” Fauci said of the deadly disease. “There will be infections in the Southern Hemisphere, in South Africa, in Argentina, places like that. And with the travel, the global travel, every single day, of literally hundreds of thousands of people coming into the United States every day from all over, there’s no chance we’re going to be virus-free,” he added.
Let that sink in for a moment. Dr. Fauci — the preeminent infectious disease expert in the nation — believes there is “virtually no chance” the coronavirus will be eradicated and “no chance” that we will ever be virus-free.
The good doctor explained that COVID-19 is unlike the SARS virus from 2002 when there were only about 8,000 cases and around 800 deaths due to the virus essentially petering out. No! It’s too widespread, too much of a global disease that went uncontained, and too efficiently transmitted from one person to another, many of whom have no idea they’re even infected and shedding virus.
“Now, even if the virus goes down dramatically in June and July and August, as the virus starts returning in the fall, it would be, in my mind, shame on us if we don’t have in place all of the mechanisms to prevent it from blowing up again,” Fauci said, making clear that the discussion now is about controlling the number of deaths instead of trying to prevent them.
So, just like after 9/11 when the world was forced to make sudden and permanent lifestyle changes such as standing in long airport security lines or having to remove shoes before going through x-ray machines, this is our new and sudden and permanent lifestyle change.
According to Dr. Fauci, we will never get rid of the coronavirus — which means we will have no choice but to create new ways to live with it.
Masks and gloves are almost certainly here to stay. So is the practice of social distancing. Businesses will likely continue allowing employees to work from home instead of gathering the entire workforce in the same location between the hours of 9 to 5. The concept of a large office with cubicles is pretty much dead. Zoom meetings have likely permanently replaced in-person meetings. Vacations will probably return to a “50s-type” mentality when families loaded up the station wagon and drove to a nearby entertainment spot instead of flying to exotic locations around the world. Concerts, plays, sporting events, and other live activities will probably be exclusively streamed over television instead of experienced with thousands of others in a large venue.
So, take it from Dr. Fauci. The entire world changed in March of 2020. The world we once knew is no more. The coronavirus is here to stay. We’re never going back to before.
Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s. […] – National Foundation of Infectious Disease However, as we know, COVID-19 is a new form of the virus. Whether one believes that COVID-19 emerged “in a seafood and poultry market in the Chinese city of Wuhan” OR you believe it became a highly contagious and deadly virus AFTER being manipulated by *someone somewhere* in a Chinese lab who somehow lost control of it….I’m not confident we’ll ever know the truth. Btw- I actually believe the cause was most likely the latter- it was manipulated and then somehow accidentally got loose. But I digress. We’re obviously in the thick of the battle and will still continue to be in it for quite some time to come. In short- I’m with Dr. Fauci – and with my own primary care physician for that matter, who shared with me way back in early March… Read more »