Porteroso said:
Forest Bueller_bf said:
Porteroso said:
He clearly did his best. The vaccines saved many lives. They were wrong about some things too, but novel virus was novel. You zealots crow that you were right all along but you simply didn't want to comply with any restrictions in the first place. Not like you had the upper hand on the science. Of course admitting where you were wrong is too complex. So you play Fauci to be some evil terminator of American freedom. The world, yet again, is so simple when black and white.
This is a simplton answer.
Call everybody that disagrees with you zelots and non-conforming and then call them stupid.
The fact is when I saw Fauci at a game without his mask on, I knew he was pumping snake oil at some level. If he really believed what he was pumping, he would have followed it to a tee.
The world in general handled this as poorly as possible. We weren't dealing with the 1918 Spanish flu or the plauge. We were dealing with a disease that was terrible for the vunerable.
Death rates under age 50 and not immune system compromised were nominal, under age 40 tiny, the death rates for 30 and under were infinitesimal. Once this was established then appropriate measures should have been taken to protect the vulnerable and normal life continued.
What is simple is hindsight. In the moment there was real fear because the virus seemed to be killing young adults. And it was changing to become more infectious. We are simply lucky it never changed to become more deadly. It is not the CDC's job to set policy, but simply to try to control the spread of disease.
The issue was not really with the cdc, but that there were no appropriate checks on it, people with the power and wisdom to balance what the cdc said with what was best for the country. Both Trump and Biden sort of handed the reins to Fauci, who was simply not qualified to do anything other than give his opinion on what might save the most lives.
But why would modern America have had these hard checks and balances in place? Again, it was novel. I'm sorry (not really) but your post is the one of a simpleton.
I agree, the first part of the Covid outbreak I followed the protocols like a simpleton, like almost everybody else, got the shots, did everything. It made little difference. People got fired over not taking a marginally helpful shot. When the man behind masking was not wearing his mask in public, as well as other "famous" people who pushed it hard, I knew it was marginal at best, garbage at the worst. When the "summer of love" hit and all the rioters and protesters ingnored any rules, and not a word was said, I knew it was garbage,.
You calling me a simpleton, well, that's fine. Looking at the people who don't consider me a simpleton, that is validation enough to know better.
That said we are all simpleton's at some level for some particular subject matter. We can't all be experts on everything like yourself and my father in law.