BUCK: Walensky. She runs the CDC. I mean, this is somebody who I think she was a pediatrician before and she’s a very loyal Democrat, which is quite obvious. She has been willing to say this is likely to become endemic. Remember, pandemic is on all the people; endemic within the people, right, meaning that it exists within a population. She says covid is likely to be endemic.

WALENSKY: I think that we have seen now that, um, this is likely to become an endemic, umm, disease here in the United States and really around the world. We have many diseases that are, umm, endemic, influenza being one of them, that cause minor challenges year after year and that we can handle and tackle — and that may very well be what happens with covid.

BUCK: So beating the virus, making it go away… Remember, people were talking about measles. Remember all the measles talk, Clay? “Oh, it’s just like the MMR vaccine for kids,” and people like us were saying, “No, it’s more like the flu mandated and mandated every few months.”

CLAY: It’s never going away. That’s what we’ve been saying for a long time, that this is… Remember when they got so mad when you would say any sort of comparison to covid and the flu? Covid is now the flu, and it’s going to be here forever. And the covid shots, at least so far, appear to be roughly as effective, somewhat, as the flu shot.

So if you just track everything that Rochelle Walensky and others have said, everything he said’s a lie, Buck. It was only in May that they said this thing was gonna disappear once we got to 50%. Dr. Fauci said we wouldn’t see any more spikes; you don’t have to wear masks anymore, anybody — remember it was vaccinated or on unvaccinated — and now here we are with many states having their highest level of covid despite the vaccines that are widely distributed and widely accepted.

BUCK: And what do we do with the fact that we already know this is becoming endemic? Every policy that is being adopted right now, the same or similar circumstances logic will apply to its adoption when it comes to covid in a year and another year and another year. Otherwise, someone explain how. What’s the answer going to be? Oh, caseload will be low? Well, we’re at preemptive level now, Clay. Preemptive measures. It’s not about caseload, necessarily. Folks, the madness is fully here now, so we have to address it.