Fauci said ‘no’ when asked if he would stay on as National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases director under Trump again

MOTHER FUCKER YOU ARE 81 YEARS OLD AND HAVE HELD THE SAME JOB FOR 38 YEARS. YOU NOT ONLY FUCKED UP THE HIV EPIDEMIC, YOU ALSO FUCKED UP COVID. TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO WEAR MASKS AND ONE MILLION DEATHS IS YOUR LEGACY. WHY ARE YOU HINTING THAT YOU’LL CONTINUE DOING THIS INTO YOUR LATE 80S IF :whywhywhywhywhy: WINS?!

  • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I fucking hate this piece of shit. Not only did he fuck up the AIDS crisis, he also would have completely fucked up on Ebola if it had ever gained a foothold in the US:

    https://mronline.org/2022/05/12/our-covid-blunder

    They made their laissez faire obvious in 2014. The outbreak of Ebola, with its 40% case fatality rate, triggered alarm about the disease spreading across America, and state governors demanded mandatory quarantines for healthcare workers returning to the U.S. from afflicted regions. But Dr. Tony Fauci did not want his colleagues subjected to quarantine, and went on mass media to blast New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia and Florida, declaring their quarantines ‘unscientific’ and ‘draconian’. Again, Ebola’s case fatality rate is 40%.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      I actually know the people who took the lead on handling Ebola. They were much more competent than Fauci, thank goodness. They also never go on TV, because normal officials and doctors don't do that. This man has always wanted to be a celebrity.

      • D3FNC [any]
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        2 years ago

        I worked with a local public health organization during ebola and I cannot emphasize this enough, if county officials hadn't stepped up we'd all be dead right now. I have never been so enraged at an organization as the CDC during ?2014 or whenever it was that ebola came to the states. Several days late and several dollars short is the most charitable description I could possibly offer. Absolutely institutionalized incompetence. Really hammered home just how the expectation is that we are completely on our own and this country only operates for the benefit of the wealthy.

        And yet when covid hit I was still somehow shocked at how badly we mismanaged that.

        • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Shit, I never realized the country was in that degree of precarity when ebola hit. Are there any good reads or videos about what you're talking about, or just ebola in general?

          • D3FNC [any]
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            2 years ago

            I mean we all saw it play out with covid, somebody figured out we had people with potential exposure already in the United States; they immediately contacted the CDC expecting them to take charge, or give guidance, or "send a team." And then nothing happened - for days. Fortunately our public health department was willing to dust off some laws that were probably written for tuberculosis and scarlet fever, immediately put the family in isolation, bleached everything they had ever touched, hospitalized the main patient, and monitored the hospital staff to make absolutely sure any contamination was detected immediately. We were also lucky that it was a fairly weak version of ebola compared to the other strains.

            After all the heavy lifting was done, some insufferable nerd finally came in from Atlanta and just ragged on everything we did. Which was, you know, handle it quickly and efficiently, and most important, EFFECTIVELY. I heard that guy went on to publish several papers on his success.

            But yeah this was during the Obama administration, Mr Healthcare himself and the CDC was already gutted and politicized. Public health infrastructure was dismantled decades ago, I couldn't even guess as to when other than reflexively blame Reagan.