Dr. Anthony Fauci says staying closed for too long could cause ‘irreparable damage’
He’s right. People are going to look at other people and see lepers and they’re gonna be scared.
The problem here is we should’ve had testing. We’ve had around 12 million tests so far? We should’ve had 100 million tests so far. Trump knew about this from January according to intelligence briefings and we’ve only had 12 million test at the end of May? This is should be a crime. So instead of testing, what do Republicans do? They attack Dr. Fauci. What the hell?
Actually; he's not a buffoon; he just plays one on TV. He's mostly just criticizes Trump at every turn; beyond that, he's not of much use. That he's served in an administrative role for 40 years doesn't demonstrate expertise; it demonstrates that he's just a deep-state, professional government worker. He probably was once better at medicine than he is today but that's gone.
I used to be the best object C# programmer I knew - and I knew a lot of C# programmers. I've been working as a software architect and then supervisor and then data analyst and then supervisor again for so long that I recently declined a great opportunity to interview for a C# developer because I knew I couldn't keep up. I've just done too many other things since then.
So, Fauci might be a great administrator and he might be a great budgeter and planner and run one hell of a meeting. But he doesn't know shit about medicine or science anymore.
Proof of his hypocrisy is in his immediate challenges to Trump on hydroxychloroquine, calling the field experience of thousands of doctors just anecdotal (which it was, which doesn't make the experience wrong). He repeatedly criticized it for not having a double-blind, randomized, peer-reviewed, published study - as though patients who were dying had time to wait for that. Then, when the patented remdesivir came into the picture, he was all over cable TV talking about how promising it was - without having a single double-blind, randomized, peer-reviewed, published study. He killed people by giving aid and comfort to those politicians who decided to play doctor by banning a drug proven safe by literally over a billion doses prescribed and then proved it was all a farce when the Gilead patented drug came into the picture.