As I said, he is the president's healthcare advisor. It is not his place to weight the economic consequences of keeping the country closed or open. His job is to advise the president as to the likely healthcare outcomes. In fact, he would be an utter fool to advise the president to open up the country when medical data is telling him other wise.As Fauci said to the Senate, he gives advice on public health, not economics. He was not hire to give the president advice on the economy.
Unfortunately, our beloved Dr. Fauci’s advice, and silence in some cases, has set the stage for his patient, the American People, to suffer and endure enormous harm, which he has brazenly attempted to justify by repeatedly saying he doesn’t give economic advice. And yet, his very oath requires him to take cognizance of economic problems which predictable may result from his advice.
A Modern Version of the Hippocratic Oath requires a doctor “… that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.”
So, tell us, how many deaths have resulted from the medicine prescribed by Dr. Fauci?
What about Dr. Fauci advising elective medical procedures like mammograms, colonoscopies, and PSA tests, to come to a halt, how many early detected cancers have gone unnoticed? And how many scheduled dental cleanings were suspended, because of his advice, during which time more early cancers could have been detected?
And what about suicides as a result of his advice to shut down businesses, i.e., those owners who have lost everything they worked for because of Fauci's irrational advice?
From statistics, available to Fauci, sound reasoning indicates that focusing on and protecting those with underlying medical conditions which make them more susceptible to the deadly effects of the virus, would be a logical course of action, since the remaining portion of the population would not suffer significant casualties if it practiced common sense hygiene.
Your love affair with Fauce is misplaced, at least when one applies common sense and logic.
JWK
As far the number of deaths due to keeping the country closed, that falls primarily in the realm of conjecture. What is not conjecture is 88,000 deaths in 10 weeks and there is nothing to indicate that the number will not rise significantly as many precautions are dropped.