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@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix

Well the problem is that nobody trusts him anymore specifically because he's been so unreliable. He's been all doom and gloom and all the while the remains largely non-lethal. A lot of people prefer to follow what is happening in the real world to what someone might say from a political pulpit. It's easier for people to distrust Fauci than other pundits because people like are talking about people's motives; Fauci is talking about things that are objective and it's easier to see whether or not he's objectively wrong or not.

If the "experts" had just said "masks are good, wear those in public" the entire time, that would've helped. They knew for most of this time that they are at least somewhat effective. Problem is, when people actually followed their advice when they said to buy masks early on, they realized that the medical community couldn't get masks due to the shortage, they told people not to wear masks. People said okay, stopped buying masks, but then the "experts" said to wear masks again, and thus people are like "make up your dang mind" and don't trust them anymore.

It would have been far better to tell people to make their own masks instead of not using them at all.

Now the experts are right on a lot more than we give them credit for. It's just the instances of false alarm and bad advice that chip away at our faith in them. For me personally my faith in the Task Force as a whole has started to grow, due to a combination of more reliable recommendations as well as listening more to pediatricians and doctors rather than his own intuition, but still Fauci has shown no signs of getting better. It's been a good run but he's got to go, man.

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix

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 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.

@tuxcrafting @realcaseyrollins I don't know if it's a real pattern, but when I was in school, it seemed like everyone had July and August birthdays.

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix

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.

@realcaseyrollins
I'm doing great just lonely in my room with the computer

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix He's been very unreliable and wrong a lot of the time, more recently leading Americans astray with alarmism and bad recommendations.

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix Well is a dummy when it comes to this stuff but he needs someone better and more reliable than

@realcaseyrollins struggling with mental health seems to one of the few unifying topics these days
@realcaseyrollins @tuxcrafting @11112011 lol like they expect wealthy people to volunteer for an experimental vaccine. Poor people the world over are always the guinea pigs.

They're definitely the last in line for any effective treatment as well. Interesting article, thanks.
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