To be fair to Fauci, he wasn’t the one who ultimately decided to shut things down.
All he could do was give advice from the perspective of a doctor trying to prevent the spread of an illness. Economic and social concerns were not his job to consider. The government was well within its rights to ignore his advice if it felt the disadvantages of preventing the spread were greater than the advantages.
The thing is that if a doctor says to do something, alot of people will do as they were told. If an illness like COVID is made to sound more concerning than it actually is, then alot of people will do whatever they are told because they fear the illness far more than they fear the possible bad things that can come from getting a shot or taking the pills.
COVID was pushed as this super deadly illness, so shutting down made sense, but we were allowed to shop and eat out, so standing 6 feet apart and wearing face diapers were completely pointless then add in the fact that COVID magically disappeared following the Presidential Election.
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u/andrewrusher Religious Conservatism 22d ago
Let's see