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2020-04-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Betrayed: The Rise And Fall Of Dr. Fauci
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Posted by Clem 2020-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Alas, my wife, and children, consider Dr. Fauci the "expert" whereas all I have to offer is "facts".

Sad.
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-19 00:26||   2020-04-19 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Weasel.
What liars and poltroons we're saddled with...

In a way I'm glad that their mendacity and spinelessness are being laid bare by this episode.

This nation desperately needs a new political class -- and an entirely new, independent, competent, at least somewhat honest media class to keep watch on the political class.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-19 02:01||   2020-04-19 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Trump has been busy, he'll find his General Patton sooner or later. Hopefully sooner. Fauci is not Patton.
Posted by Beau 2020-04-19 02:29||   2020-04-19 02:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Fauci made no such recommendation in February, but was rather saying the exactly opposite that month

Exactly like
His Swedish counterpart? Prisoners of WHO?

Fortunately, you had Trump, whereas Swedes had Lofven.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-19 05:16||   2020-04-19 05:16|| Front Page Top

#5 As "cult of personality" goes, Fauci has the personality of a small plastic soap dish.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 08:10||   2020-04-19 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Fauci is not Patton.

Settle for a short Chelsea Manning?
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-04-19 11:19||   2020-04-19 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank heavens he's not loudmouth idiot Gen. Honore either...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 11:25||   2020-04-19 11:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Patton: "make the other poor [Chicom] bastard die for his country..."
Posted by Lex 2020-04-19 11:28||   2020-04-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref #7: OD'd on Avery Island Tabasco at an early age. Nothing anyone can do. Stuck on crawfish.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-19 11:33||   2020-04-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 And supposed conservatives continue their slide to becoming leftists. People don't like what Fauci's said (or they imagine he said), so he must be a demon, and must be destroyed.

His "changing statements" may have something to do with getting more information, rather than incompetence or some nefarious plot. But we can't allow that, because we can't accept mere humanity from officials; we demand they must be gods. So conservatives become the left.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-04-19 11:43||   2020-04-19 11:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Loyalty is a prime conservative trait. Fauci should not be publicly undermining his boss by feeding CNN-trolls.

If this is a war, he's approaching Gen. McClellan territory.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-19 11:47||   2020-04-19 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 If Fauci weren't a Bill Gates stooge, then he might get some more slack.

But, good point, Rob.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-19 11:47||   2020-04-19 11:47|| Front Page Top

#13 My beef with Fauci is he forgets he's a Health Advisor, not the POTUS, and his input and info will guide TRUMP'S decision, not the other way around.

Trump has to take the economy, national security, and other factors into account as well. Fauci has the luxury of being able to neglect those
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-19 11:48||   2020-04-19 11:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Fauci "It's very difficult to go back and say that. I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives".

Hindsight is one thing,being a consistent bus driver is another.This is his whole friggen job,mitigating a response. He's not a weatherman guessing wrong if it's going to rain Sunday or not.

Posted by bbrewer126 2020-04-19 11:56||   2020-04-19 11:56|| Front Page Top

#15 The man is a bureaucrat, not a practitioner. He does what bureaucrats do, he dithers, with a bent to saying things that make matters worse.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 12:00||   2020-04-19 12:00|| Front Page Top

#16 Classic bureaucrat...been in the same job for how many years now?
Posted by Clem 2020-04-19 12:04||   2020-04-19 12:04|| Front Page Top

#17 His "changing statements" may have something to do with getting more information

Did anyone hear any 'expert' say "We don't have enough validated information yet to give solid advice or make a valid estimate of what's to come"? Bueller?

Did we have any honesty as in "Here, let me pull this out of my a$$"? Bueller?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-19 12:15||   2020-04-19 12:15|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ this
Posted by Lex 2020-04-19 16:24||   2020-04-19 16:24|| Front Page Top

#19 Got it, P2K, you need your hand held to know that decisions have to be made with incomplete information, and that later information can make it appear you made the wrong decision.

Most of us, though, are perfectly aware of the fallibility of humanity and the existence of causality.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-04-19 17:20||   2020-04-19 17:20|| Front Page Top

#20 Maybe he needs a seat on the Ron Brown Express?
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-04-19 17:28||   2020-04-19 17:28|| Front Page Top

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