Of course it pays off. Fauci is the highest paid employee in the entire Federal government
Heād be making many times more in private sector. The work heās done in medicine has saved many thousands of lives and thatās before the pandemic.
Oh? And what exactly is the work heās done? Did he develop the vaccine? No. Did he come out early on and say that we donāt need masks? Yes. Has he sucked up to liberal media outlets to undermine the Trump administration while sucking up to Democrats? Yes. Heās a $400K parrot.
Fauci is an elite physician. Best of the best. His government salary is that of an average physician.
Fauci lied people died.
You dumb piece of republican turd How many died because trump had one finger in his mouth and the other up his ass?
Trump saved millions of Americans by restricting travel from infected nations while you evil freaks screamed for open borders.
Yeah. I don't get that. He totally did the right thing, had the right impulse, out of the gate. But then he quickly backed away from it and begin telling people it would just go away (when he knew better). It's like being right was uncomfortable territory for him, and he was compelled to go back to being hopelessly wrong. His voters kinda like hopelessly wrong.
ACTUALLY, although I am an extreme leftist, I have to admit Trump was right to say that covid-19 would quickly go away. It WOULD have, if we had allowed it to spike and then let herd immunity end it by using up all the easy, local, hosts.
That is what ends ALL epidemics, and by "flattening the curve", we prevented it from ending. Essentially we conserved host, keeping the virus alive and well.
So, social darwinism?
No, the death toll would be far less if we just let it peak and burn out locally.
That sounds like fake news to me. Everything I've read from reliable sources suggests the opposite. Especially since it's not a "local" problem.
Not fake news if you examine any historical epidemic event.
You can't use Bubonic Plague because that is more complicated, in that there is also a dual host population of rodents, and they also did not know about the fleas, lice, bedbugs, and other insects that essentially made infection ubiquitous.
But look at the normal infection curve, and it only lasts a month or 2.
Then look at the infection curve when you "social distance" like the Spanish flu of 1918, and you see they artificially kept the epidemic around for about 2 years.
Epidemics always start out and boil down to it being solved locally.
If everyone quarantines for example, then in 14 days all localities will have eradicated the virus and it will be gone.
Quarantines work because they are fast.
But they need things like contact tracing, we were unwilling or unable to do.
About the only other strategy is to achieve herd immunity through increasing the number immune.
And the fastest way to do that is through variolation, (deliberate infection of those who are not likely to be harmed by it).
Since young people are almost not effected by it, that would have been quick and easy.
What you always do NOT want to do is give any epidemic more time, like we did by "flattening the curve". That guarantees the widest possible spread, to the least frequent circles of contact, and makes ending the epidemic impossible.
And speaking of "reliable sources", how many times did you notice them lying to you? Like when they claimed no one had inherent immunity, but then it turned out most people were asymptomatic, (which means immune). Or like when they claimed there was no immunity because people were getting infected more than once, when clearly immunity can NEVER prevent infection, but just mean you become asymptomatic?
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