Fauci Warns Protesters That Ignoring Stay At Home Orders Is ‘Going To Backfire’

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks during an unscheduled briefing after a Coronavirus Task Force meeting at the White House on April 5, 2020. (Photo by ERIC BAR... Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks during an unscheduled briefing after a Coronavirus Task Force meeting at the White House on April 5, 2020. (Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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On Monday morning, White House COVID-19 task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci warned the right-wing protesters defying their governors’ stay at home orders that the economic relief they’re seeking won’t come if they flout the orders.

During an interview with “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos, Fauci recognized the protesters’ frustration that the orders are “hurting from the standpoint of economics” amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

“But unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery, economically, is not going to happen,” the doctor told Stephanopoulos. “If you jump the gun and go into a situation where you have a big spike, you’re going to set yourself back.”

“So as painful as it is to go by the careful guidelines of gradually phasing into a reopening, it’s going to backfire,” he continued. “That’s the problem.”

Right-wing protesters, including President Donald Trump’s supporters, across the country have been revolting against governors’ orders for non-essential businesses to shut down to tamp down on the outbreak.

Trump, who reluctantly extended the government’s guidelines on social distancing, has been cheering on the demonstrators, describing them as “great people” and calling on them to “LIBERATE” the states in which they’re protesting.

Watch Fauci below:

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  1. Trump is always angry and petulant. Most if not all of Trumps supporters are always angry and petulant. They rant and rave and never listen. They do not take responsibility for their decisions or behavior. They refuse to compromise and hunker down in their self-righteousness. It is sickening, literally.

  2. Call them out. They’re getting paid to go out and protest about going back to work.

    And…call out their “employers”.

  3. “But unless we get the virus under control

    For any of this to matter, these protesters would have to believe the virus is real and a true threat. They dont, simply because Libs say it is. As long as the librul elites tell them it’s dangerous, they’re going to protest it is not, and therefore they wont ever see the need for getting this “under control”.

    I’m convinced we need Pelosi to publish an op-ed in the NYT on how important it is to not lick doorknobs and share food with strangers, especially in Midwestern states.

  4. Ruh roh. It’s gonna get interesting.

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