NIAID Director and COVID task force mastermind Dr. Anthony Fauci said he got the “chills” when he saw a massive gathering of bikers collecting in Florida for Bike Week in Daytona, advising against attending mass group events just yet.
“I mean, I understand people want to get out and enjoy themselves and get back to what would have been normal a couple of years ago but we really just got to hang on a bit longer,” Fauci said on MSNBC.
The infectious disease expert - known for doling out helpful information to the public such as telling them not to wear masks, only to take it back and say he always knew we should be - said footage of the mass gathering “gave me chills just looking at it."
“It’s really ill-advised to do something like that because you know, as a matter of fact, that people are not uniformly going to keep their masks on,” he went on. “When they finish with the rally, they’re going to go to bars, they’re going have fun, which is understandable... but they are likely going to be pulling back from some of the prudent public health measures.”
“I just hope we don’t have another surge in that area from that, It is really ill-advised,” he said.
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Bike Week is expected to draw more than 300,000 people, a crowd Fauci suggested could become a superspreader – even though last year’s political rallies, mass protests, and large-scale sporting events consistently failed to produce the surges that “experts” like Fauci predicted.
Like several other states including Texas, Florida has largely returned to normal daily activities despite COVID fearmongering from leftists using the pandemic to slam Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Sunshine State doesn’t have a statewide mask mandate, even though certain counties and cities have enacted ones of their own. DeSantis also lifted the statewide capacity restrictions back in September, far earlier even than many other Republican governors. Even still, Florida has remained far behind heavily populated Democrat-led states like California and New York, whose COVID case rate and death tolls continued to climb despite harsh restrictions and statewide lockdowns.
Even still, the Biden administration and their health officials continue to warn that the American public must continue to practice social distancing and wearing face masks for "a little longer," a unit of time measurement that appears endless. During a press briefing Thursday night, Biden warned that if these precautionary measures aren't taken, Americans may be placed under more restrictions to manage any resulting surge.