Link? I've never claimed to be "world-renowned" at anything, and I've certainly never been kicked off any farm. I did choose education over farming. Still seems like a good choice, to me, the way Trump's tariffs and forever wars are treating farmers.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@qparker the failures of the cdc and our agencies were alarming. couple that with the false info, propaganda, news nonsense, and people won't lock down again.
Yep. And I'm not saying we should or shouldn't lock down ever again. I don't subscribe to the idea that there was some nefarious plot to get us all to lock down in place. I do think on some levels the powers that be that were scared shitless, tried a course of action that they thought was best and for whatever reason couldn't admit they were even partially wrong on anything. I do think preventative measures probably saved lives - how could staying away from people during a contagious outbreak not save lives - but there were elements of what happened that I'd hope future generations will learn from and do differently under similar circumstances.
I just pray to God that this current generation never has to face a far more serious and deadly pandemic.
@shooter good lord as woke and soft and goofy as you are education is THE only place you would ever fit in. a room full of normal adults would put you in a dumpster
I fit in just fine in corporate biotech for 15+ years. Now, though, I can decide what to work on. Being woke or not woke really doesn't help or hurt the ability to (say) design small molecules to block the activity of the Lassa virus envelope protein and prevent its attachment to mammalian cells.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
there were levels to the negligence.
it started with trump allowing fauci to talk. fauci is never going to consider the broader policy implications. he should have been the info for trump not the speaker. trump was incompetent
then the agencies we rely on were useless. cdc didn't even have a means to track people. tests were fckd up. they were just the embodiment of what most of us think of gov
then the politics began and the virtue signaling. the crazy left. masked up. locked down. incomplete statistics and stories. fear-mongering.
the expected retaliation from maga with group get togethers with no precautions
then the hypocrisy blm marching an inch apart but hey we thought we couldn't do that. well it's blm now we can.
our country isn't equipped. not homogeneous enough
MAGA: Trump's operation warp speed saved lives! Bravo!
Also MAGA: Covid was a hoax and the vaccines were for population control!
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
powers that be that were scared shitless, tried a course of action that they thought was best and for whatever reason couldn't admit they were even partially wrong on anything.
This. It’s one of the things we need to learn from. It was one of Fauci’s biggest weaknesses.
there were levels to the negligence.
it started with trump allowing fauci to talk. fauci is never going to consider the broader policy implications. he should have been the info for trump not the speaker. trump was incompetent
then the agencies we rely on were useless. cdc didn't even have a means to track people. tests were fckd up. they were just the embodiment of what most of us think of gov
then the politics began and the virtue signaling. the crazy left. masked up. locked down. incomplete statistics and stories. fear-mongering.
the expected retaliation from maga with group get togethers with no precautions
then the hypocrisy blm marching an inch apart but hey we thought we couldn't do that. well it's blm now we can.
our country isn't equipped. not homogeneous enough
No, it started with Trump downplaying the pandemic because he was afraid of how it would effect the election.
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@hurryinghoosiers no there were precautions that good have been taken. we knew who was at risk and who wasn't. but because of politics and people like you blanket practices took place to the detriment of countless people who were never at risk. am i going into things that are too difficult for you to understand? kids in school didn't need to be in masks. it was absurd. among many other things. am i straying too far outside of the propaganda you allow to guide your life and decisions?
Oh for god sake. Go ahead and pull the back of his underwear up over his head already!
Downplaying? Trump was part of the hysteria.
He absolutely downplayed it early on. Even claimed it would be over by Easter. You don’t remember this? Fauci has several entries about Trump trying to downplay it and asking to be “positive” about it too.
You could read this for yourself in links provided here. Serious question and not meant as an insult - did you stop reading when you retired? As a lawyer you probably had to read a ton so it wouldn’t totally surprise if you cut way back.
Downplaying? Trump was part of the hysteria.
Your ignorance is astounding. Trump downplayed it until he couldn't hide it any longer. It was nothing to be worried about. Over by Easter. It will go away. Just inject disinfectant and poof it will be gone. It's just the flu. Understated the number of deaths that were piling up multiple times because he was worried the real numbers would effect his election in November.
As soon as he realized that he couldn't hide it any longer, he became more worried about who he could blame (China then Fauci) to distract from his shit response to the pandemic. Because it obviously had nothing to do with him firing the Pandemic Response Team in 2018 nor that he waited so long to take it seriously to get the public moving on taking precautions in a timely manner (sarcasm). By the time precautions were taken, it had already taken many lives. And then there was a lot of pushback about taking precautions in a pandemic because Trump and republicans politicized it to get people to blame dems for having to social distance.
Everything Trump did was about trying to win the election and not about being the adult in the room to lead a coherent pandemic response in order to save lives during a deadly pandemic. And now you still have idiots that think taking precautions didn't save lives. See Probert for an example.
have some hooky accidentally coming out of your Murt-hole.
Grow a pair and tag me next time you tubby, red headed, POS.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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I don't understand what the gotcha is supposed to be here, at all. The tidbits released show Fauci talking to virologists about what they knew and didn't know about a very new infectious agent. There's really no meat there.