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Folks question why Fauci cheered using drug for MERS coronavirus in 2013… but now he's skeptical

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Posted by Clem 2020-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Consistency is a hobgoblin of small minds.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-08 00:49|| 2020-04-08 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 The 79-year-old Fauci has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, having served under six U.S. presidents, beginning with Ronald Reagan.

And where are we today? Government tenured, but entirely ineffective.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-08 00:55|| 2020-04-08 00:55|| Front Page Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-08 01:22|| 2020-04-08 01:22|| Front Page Top

#4 “In the beginning, those [HIV/AIDS activists] had a blanket disgust with us,” Fauci later admitted to the Washington Post. “And it was mutual. Scientists said all trials should be restricted, rigid and slow. The gay groups said we were killing people with red tape. [Emphasis added]. When the smoke cleared we realized that much of their criticism was absolutely valid.”

Sound familiar?

Posted by bbrewer126 2020-04-08 01:43|| 2020-04-08 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 those [HIV/AIDS activists] had a blanket disgust with us

BTW, why didn't we go into social spacing and lockdown back then? A disease with its own special interest group that lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-08 07:49|| 2020-04-08 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 At this point it sure looks like he is putting most of his effort into prolonging his 15 minutes of fame...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-08 08:31|| 2020-04-08 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 No. He's working with Bill Gates and big Pharm looking for a big payday. Downplaying a cheap expired patent drug.

Willing to give good odds.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-08 10:04|| 2020-04-08 10:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait. Won't the "progressives" insist that any miracle cure be placed in the public trust and not hindered by "capitalist rules?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-08 10:18|| 2020-04-08 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 If they found that the drug didn't actually work in the long run, so taking quotes from earlier when it showed promise would be misleading.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-04-08 10:52|| 2020-04-08 10:52|| Front Page Top

#10 He's a Beastbot.

Can't abide the thought that this crisis and its resolution might make Trump look good.

Posted by charger 2020-04-08 14:21|| 2020-04-08 14:21|| Front Page Top

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