Anthony Fauci, the medical professional at the eye of the coronavirus storm, has just come out and said the federal government should issue a national order for all Americans to stay home, stay inside, stay put.
Is he nuts?
Let’s rephrase: He’s nuts.
On CNN, Fauci was asked by host Anderson Cooper, “Knowing the science, does it make sense to you that some states are still not issuing stay-at-home orders? I mean, whether there should be a federally mandated directive for that or not, I guess that’s more of a political question, but just scientifically, doesn’t everybody have to be on the same page with this stuff?”
And Fauci said — yep.
“I think so,” he said, as Breitbart reported. “I don’t understand why that’s not happening. … [T]he tension between federally mandated versus states’ rights to do what they want is something I don’t want to get into. But if you look at what’s going on in this country, I just don’t understand why we’re not doing that. We really should be.”
Fauci said pretty much the same on a “Today Show” interview with Savannah Guthrie.
“I mean,” he said, Mediaite reported, “I know it’s difficult, but we’re having a lot of suffering, a lot of death. This is inconvenient from an economic and a personal standpoint, but we just have to do it.”
That was after the surgeon general, earlier this week, said the same.
“My advice to America would be … a national stay-at-home order,” Jerome Adams said.
States’ rights be danged.
But more than that — common sense be danged.
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See Also:
(1) Not All Coronavirus Cases Are Created Equal
(2) Coronavirus Consequences Coming into View
(3) Is the World Health Organization Putting the World’s Health First?
