That isn't "enabling", and Fauci said as much as he could to try to keep bringing the information up to snuff and the conversation at least near the rails if not back on track...
@SomeMichGuy trump led the conversation way too often when Fauci should have had charge of the subject. That is why resignations exist and should be implemented.
@Aliveshock If you look at what Fauci saw in the Trump landscape, I think you can understand his choice.
We watched as many good, competent, serious civil servants were savaged, fired/dismissed, and replaced not only with yes-men/-women, but also with completely incompetent fools, often with no background in the subject area.
Yes, Trump was a disaster, and his handling of the US "response"--such as it was!--to the pandemic is criminal.
Fauci provided a consistent, quiet, assured, authoritative counter to the wild claims of Trump. We had various sources of "information"--actual & "dis-"--over the course of the Trumpian plane crash of a response, but only Fauci (if one were to choose between him & Trump) had ANY sort of credentials to make someone believe in their information.
I am glad we had this voice of reason in a national administration riddled with fools, anti-science, anti-Constitution, and ever-spiraling conspiracies.
If he had exited, it wouod have made news for a few cycles, then he would have been replaced by someone without their own thought process, or someone without Fauci's ability to keep on presenting, [i]ad nauseum[/i] (for him), the facts about the best practices, the state of infections in tge US, etc.
Difficult, and easy to be an armchair critic.
It makes more sense to attack the people in Congress who defaulted on their duty to the Constiution by enabling the fools to run roughshod over us all. They defaulted on thrir oaths. Fauci did not.
@SomeMichGuy Fauci might as well not been there because when it was compelling for him to stand up for the vulnerable of the country; he kept quiet. He didn’t downright lie like Birx but his silence was deafening especially when he knew from the very beginning that it was more than a flu and air transmissible. We would have worn masks much sooner. I attribute that directly to Fauci. But he does have people to make excuses for him now.
@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...
OR
• 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.
??
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.
@SomeMichGuy There is no need to insult me as an armchair critic! You don’t deserve that liberty my friend. Fauci knew in January 2020 that the disease was transmitted through the air and said NOTHING but let trump press his disinformation further. It took so long for the public to understand the nature of this disease and that is FULLY Fauci’s responsibility which he totally failed.
