pknopp
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Imo its more that covid brought an end to Trump, and possibly his biz losses will finally catch up to him. He treated covid as a political threat to him, so he downplayed its seriousness and came up with crackpot theories. He destroyed his own credibility for most folks. Not lincolnesque, but few measure up to that.They got to have somebody to distract the public from the treasonous actions of their president and hoped-for-future-president-again. Conservatives NEED a villain. Fauci suits them, after all he represents science and they tend to react badly to that.
Counter that to Fauci. The man built his rep moving the govt from the homophobia and failure to do anything by the govt on aids. He was the first one to actually meet with gay activists when Act Up was around. Fauci wanted to stay on till we really have a cure. And yes Fauci tried to keep people from hording masks and hydroxy .... because he was trying to save as many as possible.
There's an 2000 LA Times piece that predicts what is now happening. But I remain hopeful that most people will remember the guy's service of a lifetime.
I don't like Trump, but the reality is he was right on covid-19.
There are only 2 possible strategies, and both are fast.
If an epidemic is very lethal, like Ebola, you do full quarantine with contract tracing.
If an epidemic is not very lethal, like covid-19, then you do accelerated herd immunity.
Flattening the curve is not one of the possible choices because it just delays, and that allows the epidemic to spread deeper and wider, solving nothing.
So if you go back to what Trump said, it was to pretty much ignore the epidemic, which is the herd immunity strategy.
And that would have saved over half a million lives.
The epidemic would have burned out last March, with fewer than 60k deaths.
Technically the best is to deliberately infect those volunteers you are least likely to have problems.
You can then theoretically end the epidemic in less than 3 weeks.
Trump said it was in control and wasn't coming here. How does that make him right?