On the right:

In three weeks Ivermectin eradicated Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state of 250 million hence comparable in population to the USA (See "I'm a Real Doctor not a Medical Doctor" for background);

New Zealand "Covid Zero" policy has finally been renounced by the government in the face of growing popular pushback (the policy has proven muy fascistico and did not stop the current wave).

On the left, Tony Fauci is doubling down. He is not sure if Americans will be able to start gathering by Christmas, and he wants to remind people that, "There comes a time when you do have to give up what you consider your individual right of making your own decision for the greater good of society." That "greater good" being devised and defined by… people like Tony Fauci, who is doubling down on the epidemiological theory that has been surrendered by New Zealand and utterly falsified by Uttar Pradesh. But sure gives a lot of power to people like Tony Fauci.

This only looks like an authoritarian coup: You must go along, because science.