COVID-19 (f/k/a "the Coronavirus")

[pacearrow02]

Lick your finger and see which way the wind is blowing today to determine if we are listening to experts today or blaming them for being wrong.

What I think is shocking is that if Trump really believes Fauci is doing a bad job he has the power to fire him... yet, he doesn't.

Why is that?   Is it because he actually thinks he is doing a great job?  Or is it because everything that goes wrong he can use Fauci as a scapegoat?  But if he is so incompetent and keeps getting things wrong... then why won't the big boss man fire him?  Doesn't that show poor judgement?  SO WHICH IS IT?

These questions are rhetorical by the way.

Because of the pedestal the media has placed Fauci on, it would be political suicide to formally fire him.  Instead it seems he's been largely sidelined the last few months with dwindling influence on the task force and with the administration because he's been wrong on damn near everything.

[The Lens]

china 91,306 cases  4739 deaths...chaaaaaa right!!  they've harvested more kidneys from their "organ donors" than this

My brother in law runs the Asian business of an American hospitality company.  He saw his business dip to 6% of capacity in Jan / Feb / Mar and then come back online.  Many of his properties are owned by Chinese nationals.  Whenever I press him on China's transparency, he says he feels very confident that China is being forthright with their numbers. 

It comes down to behavior, they test the hell out of people, they isolate and quarantine those sick / exposure and their contact tracing is manhunt level.  It's just a completely different approach. 

[Galway Eagle]

Because of the pedestal the media has placed Fauci on, it would be political suicide to formally fire him.  Instead it seems he's been largely sidelined the last few months with dwindling influence on the task force and with the administration because he's been wrong on damn near everything.

This checks out since cases have skyrocketed to higher than when every major city in the country was shut down.

Don't worry though Dr Atlas knows how to make the optics look better

[Hards Alumni]

Because of the pedestal the media has placed Fauci on, it would be political suicide to formally fire him.  Instead it seems he's been largely sidelined the last few months with dwindling influence on the task force and with the administration because he's been wrong on damn near everything.

So, by this logic Trump should not fire an employee for being 'wrong on damn near everything?

Bold leadership.

You seriously buy this line of thinking?  Rube.

What has Fauci been wrong about?  Unless you're still counting the mask thing.  Which he retracted months ago.  Which he has explained a countless number of times.  Enlighten me, please.

[The Lens]

Because of the pedestal the media has placed Fauci on, it would be political suicide to formally fire him.  Instead it seems he's been largely sidelined the last few months with dwindling influence on the task force and with the administration because he's been wrong on damn near everything.

Fauci has modestly said all we can do is learn and he gladly admits when he's wrong.  But if he was wrong on damn near everything you'd have an army of medical people lining up to protest and that's not the case.  You get might get a dozen or two here and there but hundreds of thousands of doctors / scientists have stood behind him.

[wadesworld]

It's all a conspiracy.  Fauci is wrong on everything, but this country is so obsessed with getting rid of Trump that nobody will say anything or report on it, other than the perfect Fox News.  Just you watch, if Biden is elected president, covid will be gone within 2 weeks.  I've been told as much by more than one Trump supporting coworker/friend.

[Skatastrophy]

It's all a conspiracy.  Fauci is wrong on everything, but this country is so obsessed with getting rid of Trump that nobody will say anything or report on it, other than the perfect Fox News.  Just you watch, if Biden is elected president, covid will be gone within 2 weeks.  I've been told as much by more than one Trump supporting coworker/friend.

So.... vote Biden to get rid of the coronavirus? I agree with your coworkers on something, so it's a start.

[forgetful]

It's likely more than this, but not as many as you seem to be hoping for.

As if this were some sort of morbid competition between countries.

To give an idea of differences in approach. My colleagues in laws were stuck here from China because of COVID. Recently, they were given permission to return. They had to have a negative test 2-days before travel in order to even be allowed on the plane. When they arrive in China, they will immediately be tested again, and then moved to an isolation facility, where they will have to stay for 14-days, get another negative test, and then they will be allowed to return home.

Here, in most states you can still go out and get a beer and spit in each others faces.

[Galway Eagle]

Here, in most states you can still go out and get a beer and spit in each others faces.

I'm just not seeing a problem here.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Maybe that's cause the administration was listening to the exPerTs who were saying the same thing.

Your pic indicates that is from 2017

[MU82]

Maybe that's cause the administration was listening to the exPerTs who were saying the same thing.

Bravo! Every couple of days, you manage to post how wrong Fauci was in the beginning without ever following with the fact that he acknowledged his mistakes, corrected them, and has been spot-on on just about everything since mid-March.

Meanwhile, your emperor has only gotten more and more and more wrong and has put even his supporters in harm's way repeatedly. What a great "leader" you worship!

But yeah, it's all Fauci's fault.

[tower912]

Yep,  Fauci acted like a scientist and reacted to the science and data rather than digging deeper into a political foxhole.  I like people who are smart enough and open minded enough to evolve with new data.

[Jockey]

1st report of a patient with Covid and the flu in California.

[pacearrow02]

Bravo! Every couple of days, you manage to post how wrong Fauci was in the beginning without ever following with the fact that he acknowledged his mistakes, corrected them, and has been spot-on on just about everything since mid-March.

Meanwhile, your emperor has only gotten more and more and more wrong and has put even his supporters in harm's way repeatedly. What a great "leader" you worship!

But yeah, it's all Fauci's fault.

Every couple days I point out Fauci's mistakes and every couple minutes you point out Trumps, we're both extremely annoying.  Congrats

[The Sultan]

Every couple days I point out Fauci's mistakes and every couple minutes you point out Trumps, we're both extremely annoying.  Congrats

Fauci has corrected mistakes and altered his view as we learned more about the virus.

Trump is still lying.

Comparing the two of them is stupid.

[Skatastrophy]

Every couple days I point out Fauci's mistakes and every couple minutes you point out Trumps, we're both extremely annoying.  Congrats

If you're not making mistakes and learning from them, you're not sciencing.

I haven't seen Trump learn from a mistake yet.

[GooooMarquette]

Fauci has corrected mistakes and altered his view as we learned more about the virus.

Trump is still lying.

Comparing the two of them is stupid.

Yep.

If you're not making mistakes and learning from them, you're not sciencing.

I haven't seen Trump learn from a mistake yet.

And yep.

[MU82]

Fauci has corrected mistakes and altered his view as we learned more about the virus.

Trump is still lying.

Comparing the two of them is stupid.

Sigh.

But I guess I don't blame hoopy/chico/Cheeks/Pace. When you have to defend the indefensible, you are desperate enough to try anything ... even if you have to be wrong over and over and over again.

[pacearrow02]

If you're not making mistakes and learning from them, you're not sciencing.

I haven't seen Trump learn from a mistake yet.

How are you supposed to learn from mistakes if you've never made one?

[Hards Alumni]

How are you supposed to learn from mistakes if you've never made one?

Actually funny

[forgetful]

If you're not making mistakes and learning from them, you're not sciencing.

Ain't this the truth. Some of my biggest discoveries were due to mistakes, or failures, and being attentive enough to realize the gold nugget in the heaping pile of mistakes/failure.

[shoothoops]

New Stanford Study:

18 Trump rallies led to 30,000 COVID-19 cases, and 700 deaths:

https://twitter.com/AaronBelkin/status/1322376679407325184?s=19

[wadesworld]

New Stanford Study:

18 Trump rallies led to 30,000 COVID-19 cases, and 700 deaths:

https://twitter.com/AaronBelkin/status/1322376679407325184?s=19

China's fault.

[Uncle Rico]

New Stanford Study:

18 Trump rallies led to 30,000 COVID-19 cases, and 700 deaths:

https://twitter.com/AaronBelkin/status/1322376679407325184?s=19

Morons are gathering again

[tower912]

Winning.   Making America number 1 again.     Spreading his message to his enthusiastic followers.