[hinckley buzzard]

Fauci has been around since Reagan and the AIDS epidemic. He has always been a bit over reactive, charitably out of an abundance of caution.The worst thing that could happen for someone in his shoes is to be seen as making a prediction which underestimates the outcome.

[SamAdams76]

Fauci has been around since Reagan and the AIDS epidemic. He has always been a bit over reactive, charitably out of an abundance of caution.The worst thing that could happen for someone in his shoes is to be seen as making a prediction which underestimates the outcome.

Correct. It is better to overestimate the deaths and be the hero when it doesn't happen than to underestimate and then be declared incompetent and made a scapegoat of later.

Don't understand why others don't see that political reality.