perhaps if he had quit in March 2020 when Trump's reptilian sycophants had tried censoring mortality rates, people would have known the truth. But then again, would anyone who is actually against totalitarianism ever be promoted to that position? People who have morals wouldn't even get hired
Idk why he's hated here but i can tell you why I hate him.
Lied about masking working at the very beginning, losing whatever credibility he had, which undercut all future efforts
Refused to stand up to trump, thus lending his legitimacy to them
Has always pushed a vaccine as a solution, ie the solution that threatens capital the least and gives them the profits
I wasn't alive yet but wasn't he in charge of the disastrous AIDS response?
There are plenty more I can't think of, so everyone please feel free to add on
He was responsible for issues in the AIDs response but then he listened to activists and was responsible for lots of AIDs research
Even granting that Trump may have picked worse, okay fine.
But he should not have accepted a position in the Biden admin and cited his own failure with the initial response. He doesnt need to be there, America is a country full of talented epidemiologists that can do just as good a job and in my opinion much fucking better than this ghoul.
Fauci like Canadian researchers ignored all the evidence from Asia that masks helped prevent spread covid. Plain and simple.
Doctors in Canada were spreading this lack of research about masks with such certainty to the point that it was obnoxious. Friends of mine in HK were mystified as to why we weren't being told to wear masks.
A top Chinese scientists warned the west that not wearing masks was a big mistake: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/not-wearing-masks-protect-against-coronavirus-big-mistake-top-chinese-scientist-says
Reagan asshole. Did the whole "masks aren't needed" thing at the start. Proceeded to not quit to keep the media narrative credible for people less versed in science, but stayed on for his own ambitions masked in "oh i need to do this" so there was an easy flip-flop type narrative for people less versed in science to distrust all further info.
He was appointed by Reagon to be director of NIH, but he joined the NIH as a physician in the 60s. Idk if this position is a political appointment
I think most of it is a reaction to libs treating this guy like some legendary hero, when really he was just a stooge that stood in the background of press conferences while Trump lied and downplayed the virus. That sort of lends Fauchi's legitimacy to Trumps lies by not objecting to them.
Not that Trump wouldn't have just got someone else to do that if Fauchi quit.
"no need to wear a mask" --Fauci, March 2020
"it's safe to use the subways" -- Cuomo, March 2020
"the virus is nasty as hell" -- Trump in a leaked private conversation, Feb 2020
"I'm gonna sell my stocks because I know there's a crash coming" -- Senators, Jan-Feb 2020
And now the liberals everywhere defend this as "he was responding to a mask shortage, to prevent a run. We needed to save masks for health-care workers."
Which, first, just nationalize the fucking mask distribution holy shit. Second, you can just tell people to make their own masks? They even did that months afterwards.
But more to the point, even if this was absolutely true and justified and necessary and democracy is evil and people must never know the truth and you have to lie to the rubes for their own good, he has to resign by the libs' own stupid rules of narrative. You can't be both the guy that lies to people for their own good and the meritocratic authority in whom everyone has to trust. It's not some noble sacrifice, fall-on-your-sword-for-the-greater-good morally ambiguous choose-the-lesser-evil moment if you stay in your position of power and suffer no consequences for it.
I had an argument with my lib mom about this, I said Biden still hadnt opened the cages and let the kids out or had a plan to reunite those kids with their parents or caretakers. Instead hes been spending executive orders and Senate time on performative bullshit and trying to get peoples hopes down gently about stimulus and the vaccine.
Well, it's easy to criticize apparently and what would I do about? Me specifically. The only thing I could do as an individual is storm the fucking detention centers and kill whichever jackbooted thugs I could and open the cages myself or die trying - I dont think that's a particularily effective course of action but that's al I can do as an individual without collective action and a political mandate.
But no, thats evil. Those ice guards are "just following orders." We didnt even kill the low level Nazis for the nuremburg trials (a hint that the far superior method of killing and hanging the low level fucks was better). But seriously, if you're an ICE prison guard the only moral thing you could do is free those people surreptitiously or quit if you dont have the balls to do it. Anyone working there is immoral and an enemy of the people - what do we do with our enemies in an ongoing class war that we're losing? It isnt keep the camps open and forgive the big guy in charge on account of how much is on his plate.
I was happy about not having read his name in some days and then this thread reminded me that he exists.
