I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Fauci changes tune, now says second COVID-19 wave may never happen — and mask-wearing is symbolic.

“We often talk about the the possibility of a second wave, or of an outbreak when you’re reopening,” Fauci explained. “We don’t have to accept that as an inevitability.”

“Particularly,” he continued, “when people start thinking about the fall. I want people to really appreciate that, it could happen, but it is not inevitable.”

Fauci admitted that he is beginning to feel more and more optimistic as days go by, and insists that the U.S.’s expanded capability for testing is bolstering the COVID-19 response.

Isolate the sick, protect the vulnerable, get back to work.

THAT’S OKAY, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ISN’T A BIG COLLEGE TOWN: College Dems refuse to support Joe Biden amid sexual assault allegations.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Zuckerberg Is Right—Facebook Isn’t the News Hall Monitor for Stupid People. “Facebook has had its share of word and thought policing in the past, so Zuckerberg isn’t exactly a saint on this issue. He does seem to be coming around a bit in the last several months, however.”

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Florida has proven that a measured, evidence-based response to reopening works.

THE EXPERTS AT WHO WEIGH IN: Healthy people should wear masks only if caring for coronavirus patients, WHO says.

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM OR WHATEVER: New GOP group launches $10 million campaign to get Republicans to vote for Biden over Trump.

The usual suspects are involved.

IT’S ALMOST AS IF THEY DON’T HAVE FAITH IN THOSE POLLS: 1 in 3 Democrats want to dump Biden, who leads Trump by 13 points.

MARINE RECON LAUNCHING A PUMA: A reconnaissance Marine assigned to the Maritime Raid Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepares to launch an RQ-20 Puma unmanned aircraft system while aboard a combat rubber raiding craft. Photo taken May 24, 2020.

WELL, GOOD: Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought.

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Also, some earlier speculation of mine on the role of the innate immune system here.

ONLY INFLUENCE THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA HAVE LEFT IS CHAOS: “Americans should be allowed to unite over George Floyd…But Democrats and our nihilistic media cannot allow that.”

WATCHMEN, TITANIC ACTRESS FRANCES FISHER: ‘They Want a Race War. We’ll Give Them a Race War.’ Tweet was deleted, but as of Friday at midnight, it was still in Google’s cache:

Earlier: Tennis great Martina Navratilova declares that it’s ‘time to riot everywhere!!!!’

AT THE LINE OF ACTUAL CONTROL: Indian media report Chinese armor and artillery near the LAC — the name for the boundary separating India and China. It’s really more of a ceasefire line since the border is in dispute.

Gee, just this week someone wrote about Indian and Chinese forces clashing along “The Line of Actual Control threading through the Himalayas.”

HMM: India-China border dispute: New Delhi rejects Donald Trump’s offer to mediate. “Sources in the Indian establishment ruled out recalling troops from forward positions and said there would be no immediate de-escalation of the conflict, in which troops have been locked in a stand-off for more three weeks in various parts of Ladakh, where India has borders with China and Pakistan.”

Given how aggressive Communist China has gotten, India might do well to work more closely with another superpower.

#JOURNALISM:

Nowadays, our brave media “firefighters” don’t even run toward the fires, they try to explain them away to protect the narrative. Usually, that’s just metaphorical, but . . .

Meanwhile, a friend on Facebook points out something that the press coverage won’t emphasize: “The police chief is a Democrat. The Hennepin Co Attorney is a Democrat. Amy Klobuchar is the Democrat former DA of Hennepin Co who refused to charge the very cop that allegedly ended this man’s life. The Mayor of Minneapolis is a Democrat. The Governor is a Democrat. Leftist leadership has failed Minneapolis for decades.”

MINNEAPOLIS MELTDOWN: Scott Johnson of Powerline reports on the riot and carnage in his hometown. It’s a mess.

NO MORE BAILOUTS: Dem Senator Pushes For Bailout for His Own Pension.

OH: Moscow is painting over the Russian markings on its jet fighters and sending them to fight a proxy war against Turkey in Libya.

Hillary Clinton’s tenure as SecState is still paying dividends — for Russia.

LOOKS LIKE SOCIAL DISTANCING IS OVER IN MANHATTAN: At least 70 arrested at NYC protest over death of George Floyd.

SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE: Netflix Doc Has Bad News for Bill Clinton: Witnesses Who Say They Saw Him on Epstein’s ‘Orgy Island,’ Despite His Denial.

TEXAS AG KEN PAXTON: Trump is right and Twitter ‘fact check’ is wrong – mail-in ballot fraud is a real problem.