BUCK: This is not from two years ago.

Fauci claims “we are certainly not over” COVID, and adds “We don’t want to disrupt your life, we don’t want to force you to do anything, but do some common sense things that have been proven to be effective.” pic.twitter.com/NKknXqClUW

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 12, 2022

That’s from this morning. Welcome back to Clay and Buck. That was “The Fauch” whose telling us, “Yeah, just test regularly and mask up indoors and get your fourth booster and get ready for more boosters starting this fall.” Clay, we keep saying it: They’re not done, and then they say things like, here’s the White House covid coordinator, Ashish Jha telling us, “Oh, no, it’s not done!”

JHA: We’ve made great progress. When you think back to where we were two years ago. Uhh, we had all of these capabilities now, vaccines, we had great (unintelligible) illness, but the pandemic isn’t over, the virus is still out there evolving, and we gotta stay on firm footing here and continue to battle this.

BUCK: Gotta continue to battle? What does that even mean? Everyone gets covid all the time. Everyone’s getting it everywhere.

CLAY: It’s like trying to fight a battle against the cold.

BUCK: The cold, that’s right!

CLAY: The common cold. If I had told you… If we had been doing this show two and a half years ago when the “15 days to slow the spread” happened back in March of 2020 and we had miraculously had these clips of Fauci and we were telling you, “Hey, he’s still going to be saying this in July of 2022,” I’m sure he’ll be saying it in August too,” would anyone have believed us? I just… I don’t know when they are going to acknowledge in the Biden White House, basically, we can’t do anything about covid.

Just like, by and large, we can’t do anything about the common cold. Just like, by and large, there’s not that much we can do about the flu. It’s here. We don’t have a national war against the flu every year where the Faucis of the world are still being given a great deal of attention. Increasingly, vast majorities of Americans are just tuning them out because of the oversell, The boy who cried wolf factor.

When Joe Biden said back in December there’s going to be a winter of death for anyone who didn’t get the covid shot and then the covid shot really didn’t have much of an impact in terms of stopping spread at all. We played a clip earlier from Rand Paul which I thought was great, Buck, pointing out that the covid vaccine — if you want to say it’s a covid vaccine at all, it has to deal with the Alpha version of covid from over two years ago. It makes no sense. Absolutely illogical at this point.

BUCK: They’re not gonna let it go. It won’t stop until we make it stop, Clay.