Nantonaku

Nope, not buying your theory that it was some right wing ploy to win re-election. Fauci did it to himself. This old coverage isn’t from some right wing Trump supporter:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P1a3S7tKmbA

Gordie H

Question...why didn't Trump just fire Fauci last summer?

Also, it was fairly widely reported last month wrt the administration's actual strategy

Gone Flying

I thought he was in a position that the president couldn’t just fire him from.

I thought certain civil servant positions can’t be fired by POTUS

tripled

Answer. Because hindsight is 20/20

Nvrgofullretard

Why did fauci lie?

what exactly was his goal?

BoilerUP

I can't speak to what others think of Fauci; only my personal opinion.

He's a medical doctor and scientist. Scientists by training tend to not speak in absolutes and equivocate alot about things they cannot be CERTAIN of. They don't tend to be "optimistic" people in their words, not because they don't feel or believe something but because they are careful to not mislead with things that have not or cannot be proven scientifically.

Perhaps Fauci didn't use any of Trump's overly rosy language to reassure and calm the American people. Perhaps that got him cross with Trump and Trump supporters. That can all be 100% true...but it does not change the objective reality that he purposefully misled the American people with regards to mask usage in March and April. If some people feel his misleading public statements were somehow okay or justified because of the righteousness behind his decision (avoiding a public rush on scarce medical PPE) then that's a fair debate to be had.

Frankly I don't see how anybody with a shred of objectivity can listen to the man's own statements in full context of interviews available on Youtube, combined with printed interviews, and not conclude he purposefully misled the American public in March and April on the topic of facial coverings.

What did HE stand to gain from misleading the public? My opinion is nothing - he made what he felt was the best decision at the time with regards to the PPE situation. When the PPE situation changed due to Project Airbridge, so did government guidance and Fauci's own public messaging. Just own that decision - its benefits AND its downsides.

I wish people who are so quick to point to Trump's resistance to promoting mask usage would also acknowledge that shifting guidance on this issue, especially when initial statements by the scientific figurehead of that messaging campaign were later contradicted and self-admitted to be purposeful, also contributed to public skepticism.

This isn't an anti-Fauci or anti-Trump thing, this is a public buy-in for a public health initiative thing and both errors can and should be acknowledged and discussed.

If we're going to "build back better" as a nation once we enter a post-pandemic phase, we have to fairly evaluate the good AND bad actions and messages from all involved players, fairly assign credit were due, and fairly assign blame where due.

DeltaboundRedux

Nobody climbs the slippery pole of any huge organization without being a political animal first, and from a very early start. (CEOs, Generals, High level politicians, etc.)

Fauci is no different. He may very well be brilliant, but his #1 skill is balancing trade-offs; a nice way of saying he's adept at speaking out of both sides of his mouth. This doesn't mean he's "compromised", only that no one should be disappointed when he sings a different tune every day.

It is what it is.

I'd be more impressed if he was better at reducing complex information to manageable packets for the layman. The best ever at that was physicist and ladies man Richard Feynman. A truly rare breed.

Mesabah

Fauci is a big pharma salesman. Why isn't anyone asking him why there is no distribution infrastructure for the vaccine, when the taxpayers paid for the entire cost of the program in advance.

OOfff

yeah, nobody has asked why there isn’t a coordinated response from the administration.


except literally everyone

Crown

correct. He is a career bureaucrat. I had never heard of him until last year, and when I heard how long he's been in Washington, I was stunned. He's not the reason that this pandemic turned into what it did though. You can thank the politicans (mostly Democrats) who kept moving the goal posts. 2 weeks of quarantine turned into 6. Which turned into what we see today, which is one case of Covid is enough to keep entire states locked down. Think Gretchen Whitmer or Cuomo. We have been repeatedly lied to by Democrats, and people like oofff not only accept it, but blame the right for it.