If you are hoping that the 2019 Novel Coronavirus will go away anytime soon, forget about it, according to the acknowledgements of both the current director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the United States and the current Director-General of the World Health Organization.
2019 Novel Coronavirus Going Away Anytime Soon? Forget About It.
One acknowledgement occurred during a hearing called The Urgent Need for a National Plan to Contain the Coronavirus on Friday, July 31, 2020 by the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States when Anthony S. Fauci was questioned by Jamie Raskin, who is a Democratic member of the House of Representatives who represents the eighth district in Maryland.
“Is COVID-19 going to magically disappear, Dr. Fauci?” asked Raskin.
“Uh…I do not believe it would disappear because it’s such a highly transmissible virus”, Fauci replied as he violated his own guidelines on how to properly handle a mask, which is supposed to be handled only by its straps. “It is unlikely that it is going to disappear.”
You can hear the testimony for yourself in this video.
Meanwhile, the following statement is attributed to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during his opening remarks of a media briefing pertaining to the current 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic on August 3, 2020:
A number of vaccines are now in phase three clinical trials and we all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection.
However, there’s no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be.
Bleach and Disinfectant: What Donald Trump Really Said
Moments later during the questioning, Raskin asked Fauci, “Can people cure themselves of COVID-19 by injecting themselves with disinfectant or bleach?” This question was in reference to something which is attributed to the current president of the United States during a briefing to the press and media on Thursday, April 23, 2020.
“No”, Fauci responded.
This official transcript and this video — which was posted to the official Twitter account of The White House — reveal what Donald Trump actually said during that press briefing.
LIVE: Press Briefing with Coronavirus Task Force https://t.co/dCllm9QbNQ
— The White House 45 Archived (@WhiteHouse45) April 23, 2020
“So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — uh — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it”, Trump said. “And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or — uh — in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.”
“We’ll get to the right folks who could”, William N. Bryan — who is the senior official performing the duties of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security — replied.
“Right”, said Trump. “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.”
Trump continued: “So we’ll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s — that’s pretty powerful.”
What About Another Existing Epidemic or Pandemic With No Cure?
Did you know that another epidemic — or pandemic, since it has affected people worldwide — which still officially has no cure will be 40 years old next year? It has thought to have already killed greater than 32 million people — perhaps as many as 43.8 million people — and almost 38 million people live with this virus every day.
It is called the human immunodeficiency virus infection, which can result in acquired immune deficiency syndrome — both are also more popularly known as HIV and AIDS.
As many as 1.1 million people are estimated to have died from illnesses related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, according to this fact sheet of statistics from UNAIDS, whose goal is to lead the global effort to end acquired immune deficiency syndrome as a public health threat by the year 2030.
Yes, a lot more about this virus and infectious disease is known today than when it was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981. Panic ensued back then, too. Gay men and Lesbian women were unfairly vilified with xenophobic hysteria in association with the virus and disease. People were afraid to use toilets because they thought they could catch the disease just by sitting on them, or shake hands with a person, or even be in the same building with a person who had contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
That insanity eventually abated, and treatments are available today which help people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome lead as close to normal lives as possible — plus, the mortality rate of acquired immune deficiency syndrome has decreased by 33 percent since 2010…
…but as of today — even after almost 40 years — no cure exists.
…so it would stand to reason that the 2019 Novel Coronavirus will not disappear anytime soon either — and even if a vaccine were to be released, it will likely not be effective for everybody.
Summary
I have believed that the unscrupulous politics and bumbling leadership of both the Democratic and Republican parties significantly contributed to why the current 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic is out of control — and whether you and I like it or not, these politics have unfortunately played a key role in the decimation of the travel industry, which is not expected to recover until at least the year 2024, according to this official press release from the International Air Transport Association…
…and if the reactions to this pandemic have set any sort of a precedent, the two aforementioned statements may likely only serve to prolong the agony which is currently experienced by the travel industry.
Photograph ©2020 by Brian Cohen.
