https://thehill.com/homenews/news/529841-fauci-addresses-black-americans-vaccine-concerns-this-was-developed-by-an?amp
Dude, this shit is exhausting. Fauci could've been promoting a lockdown instead of promoting a narrative about how this public health crisis can only be solved through personal responsibility. Now we're pivoting to the idea that black people are irrational, and nevermind that a quarter million people were just killed as a matter of convenience and how that might affect your trust in the government.
Anyway, my mom is mad at me for saying I hope Fauci gets COVID. How could I say that about this man who has no influence but is somehow still on CNN every fucking day?
Fauci has been part of the problem from day 1 with messaging around the virus.
Early on, he tried to say masks weren't all that effective. This played into the narrative that conservatives were pushing early on with the culture war crap vs not having to wear masks.
Later on, he got into it with Trump and because no one can criticize Trump outright without him acting like a baby about it, this turned into a bunch of finger pointing and the media running endless stories about Trump acting like a schoolyard bully and being mean to Fauci.
Now he's pushing these vaccines that have had little testing and no known longterm side effects. The headline in question here is just typical identity politics from the liberal media.
The main problem is that the media and everyone pushed this narrative that a vaccine would bring everything back to normal. Our system was already very fragile and just hanging on by threads before this pandemic. After 40 years of neoliberalism and pushing to privatize industries, defund and deregulate everything, it was only a matter of time something like a crisis such as this would derail the entire thing. That's precisely what this pandemic has achieved. It's made everyone realize that our politicians and the parties they represent, make your pick Democrat or Republican, have been pushing to strip the system of all safety nets and entitlements in favor of pushing that money towards bloated military and police budgets. What we ended up with was an authoritarian police state that can launch national guard at any moment to brutally suppress protests, but can't fund it's hospitals across the country to save lives.
This initial statement has killed more people than any shithead Red State governor, and it's not even close.
Seriously, he killed over 100,000 people by lying about a common sense concept becuase the US government couldn't figure out how to make pieces of paper/cloth in large enough quantities to actually slow the spread. It's even more damning because even in the case of a lockdown, there's still millions of people who need to go to work in-person, often in tight quarters, just to keep society running, and we have to do something to make their work environments as safe as possible. God only knows how many people died doing work that in any circumstance, they would have had to do anyway, but this guy lied to our faces about wearing masks.
Masks slowing the spread of respiratory viruses is common-sense. He lied to your face solely to let the government avoid the embarassment of not being able to make 50cent pieces of cloth and paper. It's worse than Ford letting a car defect persist because the cost to fix it is more expensive . Fauci and the Surgeon General guy should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity for lying about masks.