I am reminded of the phrase “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Applicable to just about any endevor.
I’m reminded of the Eisenhower quote: “When the battle starts, plans are worthless, but before the battle, planning is everything.” (paraphrase)
People with fancy computer models are probably useful when nothing much is going on. People can sit back and imagine a lot of What Ifs, and perhaps make some recommendations about Risk Mitigation and whatnot. I see some value in that.
But when a pandemic strikes, people need to put away their computer models, they need to save the fancy statistical analysis for later. The data they would be working with is almost certainly flawed, so what’s the point?
Resources should go to managing people who are actually ill, and also to making sure that the rest of society is able to stay on track. Having someone like Fauci actually make decisions is a bad idea.