It's Fauci's job to give medical advice. That's what he does. He flat out stated that his recommendations are purely medical and without consideration to other effects. He went with the data he had, which sucked and was off by orders of magnitude and there was, and is, an over-reaction based on that incorrect data.
The problem is not with him, it is with the fact that this side, based on woefully incorrect data, is all we've been seeing. People are now programmed to think it's the only thing that matters and we should just act as if there will not be secondary consequences.
We need to see the economic consequences also laid out in neat little charts that people can understand as right now these consequences have been kicked down the road to buy time and cooperation, but those chickens will come home to roost.
We also need to see the fact that these measures, while slowing the virus, do not solve the problem. The longer we hide without an actual plan to control the virus so as to not overwhelm the hospital systems, which is how this was all sold, the longer this goes on. We also need to see more accurate data, as what we've been using to make these decisions is incomplete and inaccurate.
We need to hear from economists. We need to see the numbers on foreclosures, bankruptcies, unemployment and how all of these continue to increase over time. People need to see both sides of the issue so they have some clue as to what they're actually agreeing to. Right now they don't. At all. Instead they've become useful idiots parroting the story they've been told, which is incomplete, and are tools of their own destruction in many cases.
They've been sold 'stay at home' 'do your part' 'we'll get through this' blah, blah, but those are empty words. There is no action to end load mortgage, rent or other debt payments, and forbearance is not that, it is nothing but a trap, with a balloon at the end that people will not be able to pay. There is no action to give property or business owners a tax holiday for the duration of however long they decide to lock people out of their incomes.
There is no real action that to this point has a meaningful actual effect on people's ability to stay afloat. Period. Not for businesses and not for private citizens. These tiny payments aren't going to do that for any period of time.
It's all nothing but kicking the can down the road to get compliance and promising people "it's all going to be fine" just march blindly along and "do your part" without any real plan as to how to fulfill those promises. Right now they're patting people on the head, cooing a bunch of empty words at them for compliance and marching them right off a cliff.
It is not going to be OK. Not the way things are being done now. The banks are lining up at the buffet, offering these forbearances, knowing full well that at the end of them people will not have the money to pay these balloon payments, as they are not working, and they will be foreclosed on. The banks know this. Foreclosure and eviction proceeding have been delayed, meaning they cannot be started, but, again, that is meaningless BS meant only to kick the can down the road to avoid some very bad press as families are thrown into the street and told to shelter in place under a bridge somewhere. Once that is lifted banks and landlords will act and millions will have their shit tossed onto their lawns and be in the street. It's not going to be OK if we continue on this path. Don't believe that nonsense for a second.
It was buying time, to get the testing and reagents to run the tests, and more swabs to run the test, and more ventilators, and more personal protection masks and robes for doctors and nurses, and PPE for all front line workers like grocery clerks, policemen, emts, Wal-Mart etc workers, and PPE for gosh darn Nursing home attendants and nurses.... And to get the drugs we need from China for patients in IFthey need the ventilators.
If we had started heavy testing in late January a d early February, isolating the positives, and contact tracing and isolation for them etc...
the protocol to contain an epidemic, in every epidemic scenario book written, which was not done by our pandemic team..... caused the mess we are in... And panic by the stock marketeers.
By getting the numbers lower, it will allow states a second chance at testing, isolating, and contact tracing....isolating them.... rince and repeat.
Which gives the rest of us, our freedom, and the economy going.
