In case you are confused about who, exactly, Dr. Anthony Fauci is, this might provide you the clarity you need:
Photo Credit: National Institute of Health
Originally appeared in Science Magazine March 27, 2015
Desperate times call for desperate measures, which explains why the Trump Administration's attack dogs, whose overt disdain for science and polysyllabic words is worn as a badge of honor, have ramped up their "Deflect and Distract" campaign at Dr. Fauci's expense. As it turns out, you cannot simply wish away a pandemic by (a) refusing to do anything about it; (b) making up things about it as you go along; and (c) wishing it away by simply no longer talking about it. Who knew? After all, a very stable genius informed his countrymen in mid-February that by mid-April, once it got hotter, COVID-19 would "go away". Yesterday, forty states reported a two-week increase in their COVID-19 cases, including those winter wonderlands of California, Florida, and Texas. The National Weather Service has issued warnings for residents of Arizona, California, and Nevada in anticipation of temperatures that are expected to hit 126 degrees for Death Valley, California and 117 degrees for Phoenix, Arizona. One cannot help but wonder at what temperature heat actually kills COVID-19 and whether it is the same temperature at which the COVID-19 stricken person spontaneously combusts?
I do not know Adam Phillippy, a senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute (nor do I know, in the interest of full disclosure, what the heck the National Human Genome Research Institute is or what it does), and I do not have a Twitter account but I love this tweet of his from earlier this week, which was shared in this article and I applaud him for it:
Throwback to 5 years ago when Tony Fauci, at 74 yo, was suiting up to treat an Ebola patient himself because he "wanted to show his staff that he wouldn't ask them to do anything he wouldn't do himself". This is what leadership looks like. sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/w
-AK
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