{"id":1061976,"date":"2021-11-28T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061976"},"modified":"2021-11-28T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T18:44:45","slug":"prepare-for-the-worst-fauci-says-travel-bans-wont-stop-omicron-too-early-to-say-if-more-lockdowns-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prepare-for-the-worst-fauci-says-travel-bans-wont-stop-omicron-too-early-to-say-if-more-lockdowns-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare For The Worst\u2019: Fauci Says Travel Bans Won\u2019t Stop Omicron, Too Early To Say If More Lockdowns Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprepare-for-the-worst-fauci-says-travel-bans-wont-stop-omicron-too-early-to-say-if-more-lockdowns-are-coming%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Americans Sunday that they should \u201cprepare for the worst\u201d after the emergence of another new coronavirus variant, dubbed omicron, but stopped short of calling for more lockdowns an travel bans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-fauci-urge-americans-to-get-vaccinated-as-omicron-concern-grows\/\">Fauci<\/a> spoke with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on \u201cThis Week,\u201d addressing the measures that were already being taken \u2014 such as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-implements-travel-restrictions-on-8-nations-amid-new-coronavirus-variant-outbreak\/\">travel restrictions<\/a> \u2014 and how effective he expected them to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing these travel bans. Are they going to make any difference?\u201d Stephanopoulos asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it will slow things down, George,\u201d Fauci replied, saying that imposing travel bans on people was not likely to stop the highly transmissible virus from traveling across borders. \u201cNo way that\u2019s going to happen. What you can do is you can delay it enough to get us better prepared. That\u2019s the thing that people need to understand. If you\u2019re going to do the travel ban the way we\u2019ve done now and that we\u2019re implementing right now, utilize the time that you\u2019re buying to fill in the gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci went on to say that experts and scientists should be using the time such delays could buy them to study the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/pfizer-moderna-looking-into-escape-variant-vaccines-and-boosters-as-omicron-sparks-concern\/\">new variant<\/a> of the virus as closely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou learn what its relationship is to the antibodies induced by vaccines and above all you use this time to really put your pedal to the floor and get people vaccinated and get people boosted. It\u2019s going to give us a period of time to enhance our preparedness,\u201d Fauci continued. \u201cI think we have to give kudos to the South Africans for being so transparent so quickly by giving us this information. So they\u2019re giving us time to be better prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos asked what Fauci would advise regarding travel \u2014 particularly travel outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now people should be prudent,\u201d Fauci said, noting that any travel during a pandemic posed a risk. \u201cThe best way to protect yourself, if you\u2019re going to travel, have to travel, or want to travel, is to get vaccinated and to be prudent when you travel about wearing masks in indoor settings such as if you go to the airport, which is one of the most congregate settings you can imagine. Make sure you wear a mask. Above all vaccination will be the most important way to prevent you from being at such a high risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos then asked whether Fauci expected to see more lockdowns and mandates on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fauci says you need to prepare for more covid lockdowns, guys. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7aIxPeSvc\">pic.twitter.com\/A7aIxPeSvc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1464986528820703233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, George. It\u2019s really too early to say,\u201d Fauci replied, adding, \u201cWe just really need to, as I\u2019ve said so often, prepare for the worst. It may not be we\u2019re going to have to go the route people are saying. We don\u2019t know a lot about this virus. So we want to prepare as best we can, but it may turn out this preparation, although important, may not not necessarily push us to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see what the information that we\u2019re getting in real time tells us,\u201d Fauci concluded, arguing that it might yet be premature to discuss implementing more mandates and lockdowns. \u201cWe\u2019ll make decisions based on the science and the evidence the way we always do. But you want to be prepared to do anything and everything. That\u2019s the reason why we\u2019re playing such close attention to this and why we\u2019re all over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Americans Sunday that they should \u201cprepare for the worst\u201d after the emergence of another new coronavirus variant, dubbed omicron, but stopped short of calling for more lockdowns an travel bans.Fauci spoke with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on \u201cThis Week,\u201d addressing the measures that were already being taken \u2014 such as travel restrictions \u2014 and how effective he expected them to be.\u201cWe\u2019re seeing these travel bans. Are they going to make any difference?\u201d Stephanopoulos asked.\u201cYou know, it will slow things down, George,\u201d Fauci replied, saying that imposing travel bans on people was not likely to stop the highly transmissible virus from traveling across borders. \u201cNo way that\u2019s going to happen. What you can do is you can delay it enough to get us better prepared. That\u2019s the thing that people need to understand. If you\u2019re going to do the travel ban the way we\u2019ve done now and that we\u2019re implementing right now, utilize the time that you\u2019re buying to fill in the gaps.\u201dFauci went on to say that experts and scientists should be using the time such delays could buy them to study the new variant of the virus as closely as possible.\u201cYou learn what its relationship is to the antibodies induced by vaccines and above all you use this time to really put your pedal to the floor and get people vaccinated and get people boosted. It\u2019s going to give us a period of time to enhance our preparedness,\u201d Fauci continued. \u201cI think we have to give kudos to the South Africans for being so transparent so quickly by giving us this information. So they\u2019re giving us time to be better prepared.\u201dStephanopoulos asked what Fauci would advise regarding travel \u2014 particularly travel outside the United States.\u201cRight now people should be prudent,\u201d Fauci said, noting that any travel during a pandemic posed a risk. \u201cThe best way to protect yourself, if you\u2019re going to travel, have to travel, or want to travel, is to get vaccinated and to be prudent when you travel about wearing masks in indoor settings such as if you go to the airport, which is one of the most congregate settings you can imagine. Make sure you wear a mask. Above all vaccination will be the most important way to prevent you from being at such a high risk.\u201dStephanopoulos then asked whether Fauci expected to see more lockdowns and mandates on the horizon.Fauci says you need to prepare for more covid lockdowns, guys. pic.twitter.com\/A7aIxPeSvc\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 28, 2021\u201cI don\u2019t know, George. It\u2019s really too early to say,\u201d Fauci replied, adding, \u201cWe just really need to, as I\u2019ve said so often, prepare for the worst. It may not be we\u2019re going to have to go the route people are saying. We don\u2019t know a lot about this virus. So we want to prepare as best we can, but it may turn out this preparation, although important, may not not necessarily push us to the next level.\u201d\u201cLet\u2019s see what the information that we\u2019re getting in real time tells us,\u201d Fauci concluded, arguing that it might yet be premature to discuss implementing more mandates and lockdowns. \u201cWe\u2019ll make decisions based on the science and the evidence the way we always do. But you want to be prepared to do anything and everything. That\u2019s the reason why we\u2019re playing such close attention to this and why we\u2019re all over it.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}