👨‍👩‍👧‍👦#WeKeepUsSafe: COVID-19 pandemic is not over (just because Biden administration goes silent)

In the face of another tide of the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron, the response by the Biden administration is to see nothing, say nothing and do nothing. 

Read the full article: The silent phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: Biden administration does nothing as US cases begin to rise

The White House is publicly arguing that the country has finally arrived at a promising new stage in the pandemic fight—one that a recent spike in COVID cases won’t spoil.

Politico recently wrote

This goes completely against any sane public health advice and, as some experts have noted, is being done quite openly on the basis of political calculation.

What’s going to happen is that we’re going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk they want to take.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently said on ABC

Unabashedly, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s medical adviser, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have openly endorsed the White House’s view to allow the population to face another surge of infections, suggesting people can make individual choices on the amount of risk they want to take.

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Such comments, however, do not qualify as sound medical advice for a highly contagious, rapidly evolving airborne pathogen in a highly mobile, interconnected, global society. In the final analysis, the political motivation of Fauci’s statement shows it is a threat to the working class, which has always assumed the largest burden of the pandemic.