But, later in the piece, he looks at some of the specific American problems.
And, no, he does NOT target Donald Trump. Nor Greg Abbott.
The St. Anthony of Fauci, to Blue MAGA/Blue Anon, looks worse and worse with hindsight:
On
February 11 (2020), a month before Ryan’s press conference, Anthony
Fauci, Nancy Messonnier, and Ron Klain had taken the stage at an Aspen
Institute panel on the novel coronavirus led by the superstar
infectious-disease journalist Helen Branswell. Several times, Fauci
repeated that he believed the virus was low-risk — later clarifying that
it was important to communicate to the public that it was low-risk, in
part to protect his own credibility and the credibility of the
public-health Establishment. “To this day I do not understand why,”
Branswell recently wrote. A few days after the panel, Fauci described
the risk of the coronavirus to Americans as “minuscule.”
We
need to hear this, and Blue MAGA needs to abandon yet more of its
anti-Trump tribalism. On my other blog, from a philosophy perspective,
I've talked about Fauci's "Platonic noble lie" on masks.
But wait! There's more!
(A)t
every opportunity, Fauci was counseling the opposite — calm in the face
of the storm. On February 15, he told an interviewer that the flu was a
bigger threat to Americans. For another month, he was still advising
against masks. It wasn’t just Fauci (whom the upstart leftist magazine
The Drift recently mocked as “Dr. Do-Little” in what likely won’t be the
last reconsideration of the sainted physician).
I've already started my retake!
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