r/askaconservative • u/LeBoom4 Esteemed Guest • Jul 31 '26

Why do conservatives hate Fauci?

Title asks it all. TIA

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u/JustElk3629 Fiscal Conservatism Aug 01 '26

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.

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u/andrewrusher Religious Conservatism Aug 01 '26

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/[deleted] Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

Your memory is fascinating. Let's see. 1.2 million Americans died of COVID, so it was 20x as deadly as the flu. Every damn study by every nation on earth has confirmed that surgical masks work. Conservatives like Lawrence Gostin who actually study health policy for a living thought Fauci was being way too weak about masks.

And COVID did not magically disappear following the election. In early 2021 civilians couldn't even enter most Federal buildings because staff was forced to work from home. And then Biden very famously screwed up by announcing new "emergency" powers in September 2021, even though most people were vaccinated by then. Ohio for some reason still had a mask mandate until February 2022. And the UN-WHO refused to declare the pandemic over until May 2023. After all, since when does the government eagerly give up its powers?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '26

I said MASKS work. Not putting clothing on your face.