re: Fauci admits social distancing not based on science, 'sort of just appeared'.

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social distancing recommendations forced on Americans "sort of just appeared"

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Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, Co-Chair, Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Former Director of the CDC

Public health professionals will also need to work with political leaders to decide whether and under what conditions social distancing plans should be put in place

I do think that some of the social distancing measures need to be considered in places where we have high exposure and loss of cases recognized, such as the communities in Washington State, which are having a lot of disease recognized.
March 4, 2020 Testimony

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Dr. FAUCI: Yes. So, sir, it is a great question because you are right, everybody is asking it and the issue is in the spirit of staying ahead of the game right now we should be doing things that separate us as best as possible from people who might be infected and there are ways to do that. You know, we use the word social distancing, but most people don’t know what that means. For example, crowds. We just heard that they are going to limit access to the Capitol. That is a really, really good idea to do. I know you like to meet and press the flesh with your constituencies. I think——
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But I would emphasize, and I am glad you are giving me the opportunity to state it yet again because you can never state it too much, is that right now all of us, regardless of what testing is going on, need to be doing the kind of distancing, avoiding crowds, teleworking where possible. I said it many times and I will say it again, this is not business as usual. If you live in a state or a region where there are just a few or no cases, it doesn’t matter. You really need to do the——
March 11, 2020 testimony

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Remarks by the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing
March 16, 2020

DR. BIRX: Great. Thank you. And thank you for that question. So, we have been working on models, day and night, around the globe, to really predict, because some countries are in a very early stage, like the United States. We’ve been working with groups in the United Kingdom.

So, we had new information coming out from a model, and what had the biggest impact in the model is social distancing, small groups, not going in public in large groups.

March 16, 2020

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It’s a shame the former President let that weasel run the country. And apparently no one really cares.

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Ron would have done the exact same thing. Anyone would have.

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We were all told that Fauci was the all-knowing infectious disease expert, he was supposed to be trustworthy. He lied to the entire damn world. Trump was damned if he didn’t damned if he did.

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