Seems rational to look over the roles of Fauci & Birx as they helped implement a public health response. But, rationality may not have been the driving force from Day1. What if Trump's responses had been dictated primarily by concern for income of his businesses? If Trump had received the most prescient scientific projection of the pandemic in January, what did that look like? Fair to say, on the evidence available then, that the pandemic was already beyond control, short of draconian restrictions on travel & movement. If Trump knew that, he may have decided the risk of greatly diminished income from retail customers to his hotels & golf courses with a complete shut-down of the USA was greater than the losses to be expected from having the pandemic spread. He, on those grounds, may have decided that picking up the pieces of his businesses after a year or two of the pandemic, was an outcome he was prepared to accept, similar in principle to getting back on his feet after a bankruptcy.
Dr. Fauci's has been part of the huge and ineffective public heath bureaucracy for over 50 years. His repeated assertions that he is a scientist and not a politician are disingenuous. As you well know, you don't survive as a top administrator of a huge government agency without being a politician.
Whatever Trump's shortcomings (and there are many), Fauci's duplicity on masks, travel bans, lockdowns, vaccine development timelines etc. significantly reflect on his efficacy as a scientific advisor. His praise for Cuomo's inept performance in New York displays his political bent.
If the "pandemic playbook" left by the Obama administration put public health officials in charge of the response then the Trump Administration was right to not follow it. Public health expertise is only one factor in mounting an effective response. What was missing (and apparently is still missing) is leadership and transparent and consistent decision making
It's easy and natural to blame Trump for the mess that we are in. However the incompetence and complacency of our public health bureaucracy needs to be investigated, exposed and fixed. In addition, the roles played by Fauci and others in gain of function research on corona viruses and their collaboration with the lab in Wuhan lab needs to be better understood. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html There appears to be a coverup underway to avoid a comprehensive determination of the source of the current pandemic.
Seems rational to look over the roles of Fauci & Birx as they helped implement a public health response. But, rationality may not have been the driving force from Day1. What if Trump's responses had been dictated primarily by concern for income of his businesses? If Trump had received the most prescient scientific projection of the pandemic in January, what did that look like? Fair to say, on the evidence available then, that the pandemic was already beyond control, short of draconian restrictions on travel & movement. If Trump knew that, he may have decided the risk of greatly diminished income from retail customers to his hotels & golf courses with a complete shut-down of the USA was greater than the losses to be expected from having the pandemic spread. He, on those grounds, may have decided that picking up the pieces of his businesses after a year or two of the pandemic, was an outcome he was prepared to accept, similar in principle to getting back on his feet after a bankruptcy.
Dr. Fauci's has been part of the huge and ineffective public heath bureaucracy for over 50 years. His repeated assertions that he is a scientist and not a politician are disingenuous. As you well know, you don't survive as a top administrator of a huge government agency without being a politician.
Whatever Trump's shortcomings (and there are many), Fauci's duplicity on masks, travel bans, lockdowns, vaccine development timelines etc. significantly reflect on his efficacy as a scientific advisor. His praise for Cuomo's inept performance in New York displays his political bent.
If the "pandemic playbook" left by the Obama administration put public health officials in charge of the response then the Trump Administration was right to not follow it. Public health expertise is only one factor in mounting an effective response. What was missing (and apparently is still missing) is leadership and transparent and consistent decision making
It's easy and natural to blame Trump for the mess that we are in. However the incompetence and complacency of our public health bureaucracy needs to be investigated, exposed and fixed. In addition, the roles played by Fauci and others in gain of function research on corona viruses and their collaboration with the lab in Wuhan lab needs to be better understood. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html There appears to be a coverup underway to avoid a comprehensive determination of the source of the current pandemic.