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Aliveshock Fauci took the Hyppocratic oath. A physician is first to do no harm.
Which do you think would do more harm:
• telling off the Pres. & his lie squad, creating a furor for a few days, and very likely being replaced by a lying yes-man; this would have removed Fauci from the directorship of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the "national institutes" which collectively comprise the NIH, and removed his authority, access, etc., and would have effectively taken him off the board in a very trying time for which he has studied & worked for MANY years...
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• stay, take some blowback from Trump, but continue to have an important position of his own from which to have a consistent, clear, simple message; this would preserve his institutional knowledge, contacts/network, his access to info & other peers/coworkers around the world, and give him.an independent power base from which to counter Trump, his lying "press" secretary, etc.
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I think he looked at what would be most likely to do harm to his patients, the entire nation, and he chose to swallow his pride/vanity, and show us not only truth, but to do so with professionalism, ethics, and showing people what an ethical, professional person *could* do, as well as representing reason & an active, ongoing scientific investigation.
Again, be an armchair critic, but Fauci took that oath and I believe he stood by it.