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Fauci on the Way Out?

wcsu1975 said:
Trump retweets #FireFauci after coronavirus scientist comments - Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump retweeted a call to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after the nation’s top expert on infectious diseases said lives could have been saved if the country had shut down sooner during the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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It's rather easy for Fauci to say that in hindsight, but ordering a national shutdown over a few (15?) COVID-19 deaths was hardly a viable option and thus such action was also not taken by governors.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It's rather easy for Fauci to say that in hindsight, but ordering a national shutdown over a few (15?) COVID-19 deaths was hardly a viable option and thus such action was also not taken by governors.
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When trump said 15, there were far far more, he pulled that number out of his ass...
 
So Fauci said on 1/29 that the US is at "low risk" ( I believe his actual words) but Trump imposed the China travel ban on 1/31 anyway. So, who exactly is Fauci pointing the finger at? Cuomo ? Peolosi? Mayor idiot of NYC?
 
GDViking said:
When trump said 15, there were far far more, he pulled that number out of his ass...
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Well to be fair, that is where most of the crap that he spews comes from.
 
There's zero evidence that Trump wants to fire Fauci, but lets devote another half dozen threads to this anyway.
 
Like Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman of the NSC and Captain Brett Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Anthony Fauci now has to go because he told the truth and exposed Trumps total ineptness since January.
 
Taylor said:
There's zero evidence that Trump wants to fire Fauci, but lets devote another half dozen threads to this anyway.
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No more evidence than when everybody else that made a statement that touch Trump's accordion of hot buttons got fired or left like jumping out of a dumpster fire.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It's rather easy for Fauci to say that in hindsight, but ordering a national shutdown over a few (15?) COVID-19 deaths was hardly a viable option and thus such action was also not taken by governors.
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Yeah, because Trump failed on testing.

If we still did not test, maybe we'd still officially have 15 Covid deaths and in fact Trump would have claimed the virus magically disappeared. Only problem is our ICUs would be overwhelmed with unusually high pneumonia cases this year and lots of people would be dying.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It's rather easy for Fauci to say that in hindsight, but ordering a national shutdown over a few (15?) COVID-19 deaths was hardly a viable option and thus such action was also not taken by governors.
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The delay in testing is what I think is the big factor here. The warnings were there, but based on the information at the time, I don't think the current measures would have been followed since the threat perception for most in January/February was that this wasn't a problem here. More proactive testing is something that could have made more of a difference.

At this stage, I'm more interested in how we're going to handle people reentering the workforce and policies around social gatherings etc. than who did what when. The latter makes more sense to address once things settle down.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It's rather easy for Fauci to say that in hindsight, but ordering a national shutdown over a few (15?) COVID-19 deaths was hardly a viable option and thus such action was also not taken by governors.
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The pandemic warnings precede January by a country mile and you know that.
Trump was even warned of our pandemic vulnerability during his inauguration in 2017.
And the warnings kept coming and coming, increasing in tone, and Trump continued to bluster and swagger, and play golf, while gutting our support for pandemic preparedness, and then, as if that wasn't enough, it turns out he deliberately sold us down the river.

And it wasn’t only ventilators. Porter says her team “found that in February 2020, the value of U.S. mask exports to China was 1,094% higher than the 2019 monthly average.” Think about that every time you read a pick-me-up story of some designer creating PPE masks for ER staff, or some grade-school kid donating their mask. And to be clear, during this same time the U.S. imported fewer PPE and cleaning supplies, as well as fewer ventilators.
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Don't like Kos?
That's okay...the story has grown legs everywhere, so I can point to the exact same study by Congressman Porter any place you like.
 
TobyOne said:
So Fauci said on 1/29 that the US is at "low risk" ( I believe his actual words) but Trump imposed the China travel ban on 1/31 anyway. So, who exactly is Fauci pointing the finger at? Cuomo ? Peolosi? Mayor idiot of NYC?
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Er, what makes you think that Fauci 'chose' to say what he said 1/29? We've already seen what happens to Dr. Fauci when he speaks in anyway not in complete agreement with The Donald.

He gets removed for a day or so and "re-educated."
 
ttwtt78640 said:
OK, but so what? Did that make it OK for governors not to order shutdowns?
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No. Esp. not the red ones with their noses up The Donald's ass. Esp. when The Donald started lashing out in a very petty fashion, even name-calling ("snake?") the blue state govs that he believed were acting against his advice or whatever...he took offense and started in on them for anything he considered a 'slight.'
 
wcsu1975 said:
True. Trump will call it a resignation.
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It would be really against the grain of Trump to call it resignation for retirement reason. He'd have to bite his lip while saying that because He wants public display of Him hurting those who don't praise/kneel/grovel before Him.
 
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