Returning some sanity to science, 74-year-old President Donald Trump appointed 65-year-old Stanford University Hoover Institution fellow to the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Once Trump realized that 80-year-old National Institute of Health [NIH] Chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci used his position to undermine the White House, Trump wanted to return balance to the White House message on the Covid-19 crisis. Fauci urged Trump to lockdown the country to slow the spread of the virus in April and May, causing untold damage to the U.S. economy. Fauci’s a high-paid government bureaucrat collecting a $400,000 government salary no matter how many ordinary Americans are tossed into unemployment. Fauci’s loved by Democrats and the media because they use him to undermine Trump coronavirus policy.
Unlike Fauci who encourage economic and school closures, Atlas thinks it’s counterproductive to shut down businesses and schools. Fauci and certain media outlets accused Atlas of encouraging Trump to follow “herd immunity,” something Sweden did, refusing to lockdown businesses and schools through the coronavirus global pandemic. Somehow Sweden survived, including all its school children, without causing catastrophic damage to their. economy. Atlas has been the lone common sense voice from “science,” reminding his critics that he has no political motive to get America back on the right track. “I think a lot of criticism stems from people who are either politically motivated or are interested in maintaining their own stature in the public eye,” Atlas said of his critics. You know Atlas is doing something right when billionaire Democrat-donor Bill Gates criticizes him.
Gates called Atlas out for “crackpot COVID theories,” preferring to follow his Univ. of Washington Center for Health Care Metrics and Statistics, whose computer-based forecasts about the course of the Covid-19 crisis have been all wrong. Gates told 48-year-old Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom in March that 25.5 million or 60% of California would be infected by May. California recorded today its 842,150 cases and 16,359 deaths, a death rate of about 1.9%. Gates’ wild forecasts have influenced Newsom to extend a highly restrictive lockdown, causing a $54 billion budget deficit, threatening cuts to education, health care and homelessness. Yet Gates has the nerve to criticize Atlas who’s been a source of reason for Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force. Democrats and the media talk of Atlas specialty of neuroradiology, calling it irrelevant for an infectious disease crisis.
Atlas has been a distinguished fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution for many years, whose expertise isn’t limited to one medical specialty. “Somehow that charge that I am not an epidemiologist or I’m not a virologist, or I’m not a public health official has been repeated, and it’s ridiculous,” Atlas told the press. Atkas responded to unfounded attack against his credibility. “I’m not here to be an epidemiologist. I’m here because I can translate complicated medical science . . in a way that is in plain English and understandable by the public and by the White House,” Atlas said, refuting the mindless repetition said by Fauci to the press. Atlas recalled Fauci urged citizens to wear goggles, continue social distancing and washing hands. Atlas said it was preposterous when CDC chief Dr. Robert Redfield said if everyone wore masks we’d beat the Covid-19 in a month.
Atlas recalled Fauci ridiculed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), an opthamologist by trade, for saying people develop different types of immunity. “To ridicule that statement shows a complete lack of understanding and lack of the current scientific research,” Atlas said of Fauci’s criticism of Paul. Atlas said Fauci used “media contact to make public criticism of other people out of insecurity,” not understanding the Fauci is a Democrat looking to score points against Trump before the Nov. 3 election. Trump grew tired to Fauci’s constant interviews in the anti-Trump press, acting innocent while he was baited into answering questions critical of the president. Atlas explained his presence on the Task Force as to give some common sense to medical advice coming from Fauci and State Department immunologist Dr. Deborah Birx, urging Trump every time they see a spike in Covid-19 to lockdown the country.
Trump learned firsthand what it was like to contract coronavirus, getting state-of-the-art treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center. In what will be known as the Trump protocol, Trump received Regeneron’s polyclonal antibodies, Gilead Sciences antiviral drug Remdesivir and the powerful anti-inflamatory steroid dexamethasone, all seemed to dramatically improve his Covid-19 symptoms. Returning to the White House after three days, Trump hopes other infected Americans get the chance to take the same medications he got at Walter Reed. Tonight’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City focused heavily on the Covid-19 crisis, something 55-year-old Sen. Kamala Harris blasted the White House for failing to stop nearly 215,000 deaths. Harris said, without proof, that she and 77-yea-old former Vice President Joe Biden would have done a far better job managing the virus outbreak.
