by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

Why does Fauci think that people “don’t trust” science and refuse to listen to authority, as he recently said?

Is it because he, personally, has participated in a lie along with Trump and the media, and so have you?

Oh, and he still is participating in and promoting that lie — for example:

He also defended the stay-at-home orders as having saved “millions of lives,” and drew attention to anti-science bias and the disproportionate impact the virus is having on the black community.

That’s an admission of a lie — in print.  When you’re an alleged scientist you only get one.  As soon as you lie the first time everything else that comes out of your mouth is no longer entitled to be treated as “science” since science never includes lies.

Let’s recap.

The original statement with Trump’s “15 days to slow the spread” was was clearly stated in the title of the action:

It was intended to flatten the rate of infections; nobody made any claim originally anywhere that we could actually prevent infections.

That’s because you can’t prevent a highly-mobile, aerosol-spread virus that is materially infectious from non-symptomatic individuals from spreading through the population.  For an infection that is not materially infectious unless you’re symptomatic you can successfully, given enough effort, trace and quarantine people before they infect someone else, but for any agent that is infectious before symptoms become apparent it’s flat-out impossible to do once the first few infected people get into the population at-large; you will miss too many potential transmissions and some of them will occur.

A slowed infection rate does not prevent any infections at all; it simply spreads them over time.  If that prevents Joe with a heart attack from finding a full hospital and thus he lives where he would otherwise die then that might be worth it.

But that’s what we were trading off; we were never trading off infections and deaths from the virus itself.

In the context of deaths note that approximately 2.7 million Americans die every year from various causes.  This is the lens through which we must process all claims of death “from” or “with” this virus.  A 5% or 10% increase in said death rate is bad, but it’s not catastrophic.  Second, we must separate out the pulled forward deaths from caused deaths — that is, those that occur now but were going to occur in the next couple of months anyway versus those that occur years or decades before they otherwise would.  And third, we must face our personal responsibility when it comes to the ability to change outcomes for ourselves.

During my April 28th podcast (fast forward to about 7 minutes if you don’t want to listen to the whole thing) I pointed out for what was probably the 10th time since I have started covering this virus as a journalist that any expectation of permanent immunity has no scientific basis whether through infection or vaccine when it comes to coronaviruses.

This in turn means that the lockdowns and screaming Karen nonsense is stupid; we are all going to get the bug and after a year or so we can all probably get it again!

There is nothing we can do about that and there never was once we let it through our border, which was inevitable given that even today in the face of this pandemic we have refused to slam closed the border with Mexico, among others.  Only 100% isolation with a hard 14-day quarantine for anyone entering into the United States for any reason whatsoever had any possibility of working to stop the virus from getting in here and exactly nobody from either side of the aisle was willing to do that, even though Trump did have the authority to do so.

For those who think any lesser action would prevent the virus from getting “out of control” may I remind you that there are tribes that have essentially no outside contact in the Amazon that have had this bug rip through them.  How’d they get it?  Do you really think we can do better at preventing transmission than a nearly-100% isolated small group of individuals living off the land?  Never mind that very same model — complete isolation — was attempted with the Spanish Flu pandemic on multiple island nations and failed.

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