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What's any of that got to do with Dr Fauci? Covid was a global crisis managed by thousands of health policy bureaucrats across the world.
On policy, Fauci did pretty much the same as the rest of them which is follow advice from official organisations like the WHO. He didn't save the world by coming up with some crazy idea which 'might just work...' like the final scenes in a Hollywood film. He's just took the advice of the agencies whose job it was to provide it, and then relayed that advice to his staff.
Where there was uncertainty about best practice he didn't even do particularly well, nor particularly badly either, both of which, of course can only be judged in hindsight. America's experience policy-wise was about middling.
He certainly obfuscated more than was helpful about the likely origins, which doesn't make him a great person, but I'm not sure that made any difference to the course of the pandemic.
Anyone whose overall assessment of Fauci is anything other than 'meh' needs to spend half a day with Médecins Sans Frontières and see want real heroes look like.
This is literally his job. His role is to be a central figure with the medical knowledge and training to be able to understand the reasons for those recommendations and to approve them for dissemination to the general public.
Like every credible medical professional, Fauci is a scientist. Scientists don't deal in absolutes. Ever. With a situation like COVID, where basically every virologist was clamoring to study the thing, there was very little truly provable information around. In that position, you cannot make blanket statements about policy when the foundational data you're working from is not trustworthy.
The choice to obfuscate any information about the origin was done for this reason too. In that position, it is simply unethical to state something as fact when the information you have is unverified. RFK does that shit all the time and every single time it happens, scientists have had to come out and say "No. The thing the secretary of health just stated as fact is untrue and you should not trust it." Maybe it's because I'm old enough to remember what things were like before, but it's fucking insane that the general scientific community has to come out and refute official policy.
Exactly. That's his job and he did it. That's it.
As to the obfuscation. He went on the Newt Gingrich podcast and said the idea of a lab origin was a conspiracy theory without any scientific basis eight days after a meeting he had with top scientists at which the majority were of the opinion that it probably was. In what way is that 'not stating something as fact when it's uncertain'?
He'd just come from a meeting where he'd been told it was uncertain, and he stated publicly that believing it amounted to conspiracy theory.
I can't understand why people defend the man. I can't understand why anyone would particularly hate him either. He's just a normal political appointee.