Dr Fauci made mistakes. But his persecution is a travesty | Margaret Sullivan
www.theguardian.com
It’s easy to second-guess decisions made during the pandemic. That doesn’t justify the Republicans’ politicized response
  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    51·
    16 days ago

    He didn’t make any mistakes. What he predicted came true and he always gave his opinion on the best evidence at the time.

    I cannot believe people are pushing this bullshit if we didn’t live through all of this just a few years ago.

    Fauci was saving lives, while Trump, Rogan and the rest of the right wing grifters were telling people to inject bleach into their assholes…

    https://youtu.be/wWxqBaWt5uY

    • kljafgg9r0@lemmy.world
      22·
      15 days ago

      He lied about wearing masks and told people not to wear them, directly leading to thousands of more deaths and cases. What are you smoking?

      • pastaq@lemmy.world
        2·
        14 days ago

        Lied is doing a lot of dishonest work here.

        • There were mask shortages and they wanted to ensure the front line medical staff around the country had masks first
        • When he said that we didn’t yet know about asymptomatic transmission.
        • There wasn’t any data yet on how the virus spread.
        • There wasn’t data on if homemade cloth masks would be effective.
        • He reversed this stance a month later when the data supported the guidance.

        This is the kind of bullshit peddling that causes people to mistrust science. He made a decision based on the best evidence at the time, and then continued to update that stance as new information came in. What you’re doing is exactly the kind of post-mortum FUD that the person you replied to was talking about.

        • kljafgg9r0@lemmy.world
          12·
          14 days ago

          There were mask shortages and they wanted to ensure the front line medical staff around the country had masks first

          Okay, so you already admit he HE LIED. And it’s a ridiculous reason anyway, hospitals don’t get masks at the grocery store, they have their own suppliers. He could have even told people to wear cloth masks!

          Japan and a bunch of other countries were already masking up. It’s so basic anyone who graduated high school biology could tell you this was an airborn disease and that masks would help.

          He reversed this stance a month later when the data supported the guidance.

          No he didn’t, there was no ‘data’ to support the guidance. China, SK, and Japan and more were already masking up.

          Your first sentence also contradicts this-you said “There were mask shortages and they wanted to ensure the front line medical staff around the country had masks first” There it is, he knew masks were working, and he told people not to wear masks. Not because of ‘new data’ but because he wanted to prevent mask shortages, which didn’t work anyway and helped the disease rapidly spread because people were told not to mask.

          God you people are so pathetic defending this misinformation that literally killed thousands of people.