Not defending Fauci per se. one of the things I learned working at a hospital is that the infectious control people will keep you up at nights with their “alarming” stories.
It has really just been a matter of time before a virus with some danger got loose in the world. Our Emergency Prep team pulled out our plans for excercises during the Ebola outbreak a few years ago. This lead to a lot of discussion on what could happen.
So, long story short: This has been on the horizon for a long time. The Administrators and politicians never wanted to spend a nickel on something they could not understand, so they never funded the appropriate stockpiles.
As I wrote, this is not a defense of Fauci. Just an explanation of who was talking about this years ago.
“Just an explanation of who was talking about this years ago.”
I noticed periodic articles predicting a pandemic for at least a couple of years, and wondered what was up.
I speculated that we were being gaslighted, groomed to panic when the powers that be told us we should.
As it happened, we were told to panic over COVID, and many people did.