perhaps if he had quit in March 2020 when Trump's reptilian sycophants had tried censoring mortality rates, people would have known the truth. But then again, would anyone who is actually against totalitarianism ever be promoted to that position? People who have morals wouldn't even get hired
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Idk why he's hated here but i can tell you why I hate him.
Lied about masking working at the very beginning, losing whatever credibility he had, which undercut all future efforts
Refused to stand up to trump, thus lending his legitimacy to them
Has always pushed a vaccine as a solution, ie the solution that threatens capital the least and gives them the profits
I wasn't alive yet but wasn't he in charge of the disastrous AIDS response?
There are plenty more I can't think of, so everyone please feel free to add on
He was responsible for issues in the AIDs response but then he listened to activists and was responsible for lots of AIDs research
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I honestly think people are going too far with criticizing him on the masks thing. What he said at the time was not a lie, it was backed up by what we knew at the time. And what we knew is this:
1 - masks dont provide very good protection to the mask wearer. The purpose of masks is to protect other people from the mask wearer, if the mask wearer is infected
2 - people didnt yet, and many still dont, understand that. They think putting a mask on protects yourself.
4 - Early on in the pandemic, it wasn't yet known that a large portion of infected people were asymptomatic, and that asymptomatic people were still infectious
5 - the US was facing such a severe shortage of masks in those early weeks, that they literally went to the manufacturers in Asia and offered to pay extra to buy shipments of masks that other countries had already ordered. They outbided other countries in order to jump ahead in the line. In other cases, US based mask producing companies were ordered to cancel all shipments to other countries and redirect all masks to the US instead. (These masks were made in Asia of course)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52161995
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-masks-idUSKBN21L253
Putting all that together, you're left with this reasoning
"Mask wearing by healthy people doesnt protect the wearer from infection, (even though people think it does) and since we are facing a mass shortage of masks that will be needed for medical use, we should probably go out and tell people that theres no need to hoard masks."
So fauci went and said this
Which, is not a lie. It's the best info we had at the time. This is literally just how science works. We don't go around and say that early astronomers who said that the orbits of the planets were circular are lying because we now know that they are elliptical. They were saying the truth to the best extent that they knew at the time.
If I'm missing something here or have my info messed up I'm willing to listen.
As for not quitting, I cant imagine that we'd be better off if he had. Trump likely would have replaced him with some sycophant that would have told people to take hydroxychloroquine
Even granting that Trump may have picked worse, okay fine.
But he should not have accepted a position in the Biden admin and cited his own failure with the initial response. He doesnt need to be there, America is a country full of talented epidemiologists that can do just as good a job and in my opinion much fucking better than this ghoul.
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I prefer going by what the scientific evidence shows, not what people who are not PHD experts think. It might seem intuitive that mask-wearing by uninfected people helps keep them from getting sick, but there is a lack of good evidence showing that to be true.
For example, look at this document about pandemic preparedness that was put together by the Canadian government in 2018. if tldr look at the bolded portions. (This quote is from section 3.5.1.5)
Notice something here? It sounds quite similar to what Fauci said in March, doesn't it? That's because Fauci isn't an idiot and he wasn't lying.
Now, because we know that symptomatic spread is such a problem, we've changed our approach to make universal masking a priority. That's a choice that came up in response to evidence that Fauci didn't have back in March.
As for how imperfect protection might be no better, as Fauci said, and as that Canadian document says, there's fear (justified imo) that mask-wearing encourages riskier behavior, neglect of other preventative measures, and face touching. And again, they wanted to prevent hoarding. If you know that evidence shows that mask-wearing provides paltry (if any) protection from infection to the wearer, and if there isn't good evidence of asymptomatic spread being a serious concern, why would you tell people that mask-wearing is so serious that you should def run out and buy some, or make their own?
Fauci like Canadian researchers ignored all the evidence from Asia that masks helped prevent spread covid. Plain and simple.
Doctors in Canada were spreading this lack of research about masks with such certainty to the point that it was obnoxious. Friends of mine in HK were mystified as to why we weren't being told to wear masks.
A top Chinese scientists warned the west that not wearing masks was a big mistake: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/not-wearing-masks-protect-against-coronavirus-big-mistake-top-chinese-scientist-says
Reagan asshole. Did the whole "masks aren't needed" thing at the start. Proceeded to not quit to keep the media narrative credible for people less versed in science, but stayed on for his own ambitions masked in "oh i need to do this" so there was an easy flip-flop type narrative for people less versed in science to distrust all further info.
He was appointed by Reagon to be director of NIH, but he joined the NIH as a physician in the 60s. Idk if this position is a political appointment
I think most of it is a reaction to libs treating this guy like some legendary hero, when really he was just a stooge that stood in the background of press conferences while Trump lied and downplayed the virus. That sort of lends Fauchi's legitimacy to Trumps lies by not objecting to them.
Not that Trump wouldn't have just got someone else to do that if Fauchi quit.