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Opinion: What's behind the attacks on Dr. Fauci

Opinion: What's behind the attacks on Dr. Fauci

Opinion: What's behind the attacks on Dr. Fauci
Dec 05, 2021 3 mins, 9 secs

He became so much a part of everyday life over the past two years that people started naming their pets "Fauci," although not quite at the rate owners called their cats and dogs "Zoom."

Yet, as Frida Ghitis wrote, Fauci has been the target of increasingly overwrought attacks from the right for his role supporting vaccines and other proven measures to stem the pandemic.

The Auschwitz Museum in Poland, on the site where Nazis murdered more than 1 million human beings, mostly Jews, rebuked Logan," calling her words "shameful" and "a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline."

Ghitis observed, "as long as there's a massive propaganda effort aimed at keeping people from accepting the vaccine, the arrival of Omicron is one more warning shot, one more sign that the pandemic can exploit social weaknesses, divisions and cynicism to continue preventing us from getting back our full lives.

"At least five conservative radio hosts who warned their audiences against the vaccine have died of Covid in recent months," wrote Nicole Hemmer.

Daystar is part of a cohort of religious "media outlets that enormous audiences of Americans consume on a regular basis, and that most political outlets tend to ignore."

The Omicron shadow

It's still not clear how serious a threat the Omicron variant poses, but it's already casting a shadow over people's lives, wrote David M.

But there's still such a long road ahead until we're once again made whole."

South Africa was the first nation to identify the Omicron variant, and numerous world leaders responded by restricting travel from the country and several others in Africa.

The promises heads of states made at the G20 summit in October to be collaborative in rebuilding the world tourism sector have seemingly been disregarded -- and these travel restrictions are a misguided result...if Omicron cases had first emerged in a North American or Western European nation, would similar travel bans have been implemented?"

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His 'new Christmas present'

In the past four months, there have been 32 shootings at K-12 schools in the US.

The consequences would be massive, wrote Mary Ziegler: "To overturn the 1973 decision would be a profound statement about women's liberty and autonomy -- a social and political earthquake that would fundamentally alter the lives of many."

She added, "A decision eliminating Roe would mean that somewhere between 20 and 25 states would criminalize virtually all abortions, transforming the lives of people across large swathes of the South and Midwest.

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AND...

The Sondheim legacy

Steven Spielberg's long-awaited film revival of "West Side Story" opens in theaters this week, just days after the death of Stephen Sondheim.

The movie reminds us, Gene Seymour wrote, of Sondheim's "spectacular Broadway breakthrough in 1957 as lyricist to Leonard Bernstein's music and Arthur Laurent's libretto updating 'Romeo and Juliet' from Italy at the hinge of the 13th and 14th centuries to the meaner streets of upper Manhattan in the middle of the 20th."

The comparisons people have made between Sondheim and the creator of "Romeo and Juliet" are not far-fetched, Seymour observed.

But, Seymour argued, the song "Being Alive" from the 1970 musical "Company" is the closest thing in Sondheim's work to the Hamlet soliloquy.

"Indeed, any musical soliloquy -- and there are dozens of them -- from Sondheim's collected works are such compendiums of emotional range and complexity that they can be viewed as mini-dramas of their own," Seymour wrote.

"Steven Spielberg's West Side Story 2.0 is an ecstatic act of ancestor-worship: a vividly dreamed, cunningly modified and visually staggering revival," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw.

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