Yeah, here's the thing. That famous "let's use bleach and strong light" conference didn't include Fauci. Neither did any conference. For months. He was uninvited.
And let's clear something up: Fauci did not say “masks don’t work.”
During an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” in March 2020, Fauci actually said that “masks are important for someone who’s infected to prevent them from infecting someone else.” But he added that face masks generally do not provide the “perfect protection” from getting infected “that people think” and so “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”
Fauci still said he was “not against” anyone wearing a mask “if you want to do it.” Although, he warned that if everyone wore them it “could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it,” particularly health care providers and people who were ill.
His comments were in line with CDC guidance at the time to conserve face masks for health care workers and those who had COVID-19 and had symptoms. (source: https://www.factcheck.org/2021/02/scicheck-video-wrong-about-fauci-covid-19/)
@Graylight All what you stated was true however Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx were the medical professions that by their choice kept quiet while trump acted like a medical expert and they enabled his stupidity.
Not once did I see either medical professional express pure outrage over him while hundreds of thousands died.
@Graylight He did his best to keep his job instead of making the high profile this death deserved. Not once did he interrupt trump when he should have. I mean come on the bleach statement was ridiculous and they just sat calm.
@Aliveshock Had he not kept his job and a louder, more "agreeable" expert had been brought in, would he have had the platform he did? The CDC immediately cuntered Trump's claims. As the head of the CDC, this [i]was [/i]Fauci's voice. [i]And he was never at the press conference about bleach and light.[/i]
As for Birx, and I'm not a fan, she did immediately counter Trump as he explored his groundbreaking treatment ideas. [quote] “Not as a treatment,” Dr. Birx said, adding, “I haven’t seen heat or light —” before the president cut her off.[/quote] Should she have tried harder? Maybe. But that's he boss and we'd never see her again. Mike Lindell would've taken her spot.
@Graylight Why have resignations if they don’t happen at the most critical times? He still had the ability to make a difference at that time last year and didn’t. Joe would have hired him in January and we could have saved more lives as people woke up to the buildup of death the country was suffering. The CDC was also compromised under the previous administration. We lacked any positive leadership at the critical press conferences and it was very sad for our country.
@Aliveshock He did. As the head of the CDC, it was being countered as early as that day on CNN. The CDC issued cautions the next day. He went on to speak of it for weeks.
But honestly, if you have to tell someone not to drink bleach, then maybe it's time to cull the herd. This country is a soft, soft place for idiots who think you should wear plastic dry-cleaning bag on your head or make toast in the bathroom. There comes a time to say, enough.
@Graylight I disagree. There are enough stupid people as made obvious in the January 6 “1776” attack on the Capitol. We almost ended up with a dead Congress because of trump’s stupidity. trump should be in jail now.
@Aliveshock He should be. But all the loopholes we allowed politicians to make for decades have given him a free pass in business. The jading of America has made it impossible to prosecute him for crimes against women unless there's videotaped evidence reviewed by the Supreme Court and signed off by Jesus. And as a politician, he managed to gather followers so loyal through the use of terror management and their basest fears that an objective judgment of any kind whatsoever in Congress or DC nothing but a fantasy.
Trump is accountable for each and every word he's said, written or typed. He's accountable for every action he's taken. But he didn't fall from the sky and he didn't create anything that wasn't already growing here.
@Graylight He was enabled by a Republican senate that should have impeached him and your argument was competent until you forcefully inserted religion for some unknown reason.
@Aliveshock Insertion would redirect the topic, complicate or obfuscate the topic. A passing reference - a nod, if you will - to the promoted and well-known religious right is not "insertion of religion." You, sir, are deflecting. If you need it, I've got a mirror.
