‘Hell No’: Cruz Slams Fauci For Suggesting COVID Restrictions Might Be Reinstituted

On Sunday, after Dr. Anthony Fauci cited the Facilities for Illness Management saying that if the USA noticed a big surge from a COVID-19 variant, significantly one which may lead to a rise in hospitalizations, restrictions on the general public is perhaps reinstituted, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) fired on Twitter, “Hell no. For petty tyrants like Fauci, they solely have one device of their toolbox: authoritarian restrictions. Sufficient is sufficient.”

Hell no.

For petty tyrants like Fauci, they solely have one device of their toolbox: authoritarian restrictions.

Sufficient is sufficient. https://t.co/01aTNDh3gE

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 20, 2022

Fauci , President Biden’s chief medical advisor, was talking to the host of ABC’s “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos, who requested, “What’s your tackle this BA2 variant?

“Properly, as was mentioned, it has this diploma of transmission benefit over the unique Omicron however not a multifold benefit, so it’s about 50 to 60% or so extra transmissible, which implies, in the end, over time, it would take over because the dominant variant,” Fauci answered. “It clearly, all through the world, it’s about 80-plus p.c, 85 p.c of the isolate. In the USA it’s nonetheless someplace round 30%. So it does have an elevated transmission functionality.”

“Nevertheless, once you take a look at the instances they don’t look like any extra extreme and they don’t seem to evade immune responses, both from vaccines or prior infections,” Fauci admitted. “So the underside line is we seemingly will see an uptick in instances as we’ve seen within the European international locations, significantly the U.Okay. the place they’ve had the identical scenario as we’ve had now; they’ve the BA2, they’ve a leisure of a number of the restrictions comparable to indoor masking and there’s a waning of immunity. Hopefully we gained’t see a surge; I don’t suppose we’ll. The simplest option to stop that’s to proceed to get folks vaccinated and for individuals who have been vaccinated to proceed to get them boosted. In order that’s the place we stand proper now; we are able to count on to see a rise, sure.”

“We’ve seen this leisure of restrictions all throughout the nation proper now. Any purpose to reverse that?” Stephanopoulos requested.

“I don’t suppose so George, not proper now,” Fauci replied. “I don’t see us going again into any extra actually very strict of restrictions.” Then he cautioned, “However you all the time should have the type of flexibility: Bear in mind when the CDC got here out with the type of modifications of their metrics which might result in the rules of what areas or counties within the nation ought to have a masking indoor? They made it very clear that as you pull again on restrictions, if we do see a big surge, significantly one which may lead to a rise in hospitalizations, we’ve got to be ready to pivot and maybe reinstitute a few of these restrictions.”

“However proper now, at this level, George, I don’t see that,” he added.

Later, Fauci acknowledged, “We simply can’t stand nonetheless; significantly as we look like in considerably of a low within the instances, the place instances proceed to return down, deaths proceed to return down, and hospitalizations. That’s not time in any respect to declare victory as a result of this virus has fooled us earlier than and we actually have to be ready for the likelihood that we’d get one other variant. And we don’t need to get caught flat-footed on that.”

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