November 12, 2020, 11:09 am
Leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force Dr. Anthony Fauci has issued a very on-brand response to the news that Steve Bannon wants to mount his head on a pike outside the building as a “warning.” Fauci, always remaining calm in the face of scary things like deadly pandemics and threatened beheadings, gave perhaps one of the biggest understatements of the year.
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“It’s obviously been very stressful. I mean, to deny that would be to deny reality,” he said on an Australian ABC news program. “When you have public figures like Bannon calling for your beheading, that’s really kind of unusual, I think.”
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Kind of, yes.
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“That’s not the kind of thing you think about when you’re going through medical school to become a physician,” he added.
Former White House strategist and Breitbart founder Steve Bannon earned himself a permanent Twitter ban for stating on his podcast “War Room: Pandemic” that Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should lose their heads.
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“I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put the heads on pikes,” he said. “I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats.”
Multiple social media platforms found this to be in violation of their policies against inciting violence, which they are taking very seriously right now during this time of intense political tension in the U.S.
Fauci, ever the class act, said that he’s dealing with the stress of being targeted for violence by focusing on his work as scientists draw closer to deploying an effective vaccine for the novel coronavirus.
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“I’ve gotten through it by really focusing like a laser beam on exactly what my goal is,” he said. “I’m a scientist and I’m a physician. My goal is to develop vaccines. I think we’ve been quite successful in that.”
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer recently announced that the vaccine they’re developing appears to have a 90 percent success rate according to their own tests. If true, this is a far higher rate of success than the yearly flu shot, which averages around 55 percent.
The next challenge will be figuring out how to effectively distribute it to the people, so we’re glad Dr. Fauci isn’t too rattled by Bannon’s rantings.
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“You know, people calling for you to be beheaded, fired, thrown into the fire pit, or whatever, that’s just noise,” Fauci said. “You don’t pay attention to that.”
*First Published: November 12, 2020, 11:09 am
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