‘We have a serious situation here’: Fauci warns COVID-19 could be as bad as 1918 flu pandemic. https://bit.ly/2ZwoRl1 https://twitter.com/FOX10Phoenix/status/1283729395820064772 #fauci #Phoenix
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you want to get rid of the one guy in government who knows what's going on here?
> knows what's going on here
@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix Well #Trump is a dummy when it comes to this stuff but he needs someone better and more reliable than #AnthonyFauci
@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix He's been very unreliable and wrong a lot of the time, more recently leading Americans astray with alarmism and bad recommendations.
Constantly changing his mind about shutting things down, predicting things would be far worse than they ended up being, etc.
He's probably a good guy and likely means well, but his advice has just been lousy, ever-changing, and hard to follow. You can't ask people to trust someone who can't be consistent.
If you say, "if you don't take action, X will happen" so people take action - then X not happening doesn't mean you were inconsistent.
And changing his mind - this is a basic misunderstanding of the scientific process.
You don't understand; it's not that his predictions are wrong (while that can be an issue too), but also that his recommendations tend to be inconsistent. It seems that, not just him but the team at large tends to change their recommendations over and over again. Thankfully this doesn't seem to have been a problem fairly recently, he seems to remain consistent in that we need to reopen things soon.
But another issue is his chronic pessimism that he uses to sell fear to the people. The virus would have to mutate into a far more powerful and lethal version in order to even come close to the 675k #USA death toll of the Spanish Flu pandemic. 675 million people would need to be infected. And earlier on he said we should not take comfort in lower death rates in the face of rising infection counts. Why not? Common sense tells us that he is being at least a tad manipulative/misleading in that regard.
@lnxw37a2 @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix Why is the death rate going down while infection rates rise? Surely this must be some highly deadly disease...🙄
@lnxw37a2 @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix I don't think the worst in necessarily over tho. The are likely countless immunocompromised and elderly people who haven't been exposed. The key will be finding an effective way to isolate or protect them from the rest of the population. By and large most people will be fine, but people in those groups won't.
