He seems to have been drawn into the vaccine/no vaccine argument that was initiated by the right a year and a half ago. They own both sides of that argument and it is the two hasps of a venus fly trap.
Jimmy cited a lot of non-scientists in his “it will be around forever” spiel. And also two scientists who are probably tainted. I know this.
In fact, COVID has been eradicated among 1.4 billion of the world’s population. Nothing highlights the folly of ideology like nature, and it just turned out that we are all as-one to nature, as we are to communists too. Jimmy needs to find a way to say this, even if it means making some word substitutions, e.g. “public health”, but probably without saying “Nothing says public health quite like Maoism” :-) But it has been an obvious truism over many decades, actually, in China.