Dr Fauci:US CV-19 outbreak perpetuated due to locking down at 50% vs European countries at 97%

[iluvtennis]

(excerpt from an inteview Dr Fauci did with BBC radio this week)

[soothsayer]

1. Well where were you, fauci?

[crickets]

2. It is a little late for him to point that out now, isn't it? nt

[LisaL]

3. You think our orange leader listened to him?

We never locked down fully and we opened up too soon. One didn't have to be a rocket scientist to see the results coming.

[soothsayer]

5. I know but they went along with it, imho

He and Birx

[llashram]

4. afraid

of getting his fuhrer at him. I mean he did and has said the right thing periodically, just not consistently. He did what his fuhrer allowed him to do. Where is Dr. Brix? Haven't heard much from her, but same deal as Fauci probably.

[soothsayer]

6. She's worse. But they both caved from pressure re: the economy

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. He's been there all along - he doesn't have the authority to shut down the country nt

[soothsayer]

9. Point is, he has not always piped up when it mattered

His silence— or watered down messaging — came across as approval of opening up too soon.

He’s guilty on original mask guidance, but he realizes now that that hurt the effort.

[FreeState]

16. And if he had piped up

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He would have been fired and replaced by an unqualified lackey. Damned if you do damned if you don’t.

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. That's what I think. Too. If he had just said what he

Thought abd wanted to say he simply would ve been replaced.

[soothsayer]

10. And I realize he's been sidelined sometimes

Maybe he doesn’t risk expulsion from the task force because he’s the only sane voice.

Idk, I like him, and it’s probably asking too much for him to risk his job just to try to save thousands of lives.

But he’s speaking up again, albeit to other countries.

[JCMach1]

8. Was never Trump's plan, chloroquinine

Was...

Lockdown was just to buy time to gather supply

[iluvtennis]

12. there is truth to what u say as Peter Navarro was on MSNBC on Thursday touting chloroquine although

FDA and WHO and EU have all deemed it ineffective for treatment of CV-19.

[iluvtennis]

11. I think trump/WH silenced Dr Fauci. You know trump/WH do not approve any US TV network requests

for Dr Fauci to be interviewed. Have heard it reported numerous times on CNN and MSNBC over last several weeks.

I believe Fauci acquiesced to trump to remain on the CV task force as he knew he needed to be there for the sake of the nation.

[Raine]

13. Trying to save his own ass

apparently ... now he says something but was silent when he shouldn't have been.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. I think that this point never gets much attention

Not only did we "re-open" too early (which some state were very reckless about) we were never actually in a state of total lockdown in this country and, as such, what we did wasn't very effective in controlling spread in the early days of this pandemic and that it's even more disingenuous to complain about how bad it was that we had to be locked down at all.

[iluvtennis]

15. + agree. nt

[tavernier]

17. He would've been straight out the door if he'd spoken up any louder than what he did.

And replaced by another Birx, even weaker.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. At least he often looked disgusted, unlike grinning Birx.

She FINALLY looked perturbed over him suggesting the injection of disinfectants, but later "Birxsplained" that behavior too... as him thinking out loud when presented with new ideas.