ok...
why should we trust anything our government officials say about stopping the spread of a virus when they’re spreading everything they possibly can across our country during a “global pandemic”?...
Because I don’t primarily rely on gov’t officials, or, at least not until I have convincing supportive info. outside of the gov’t or the MSM.
Basically, what I find around me generally supports CDC’s numbers, but, in other areas their incompetence is stupefying. It is easy to think of these agencies, and the gov’t in total as monoliths, but in reality, they are not.
For example... I have a bit of an “inside” connection WRT the CDC: The internal politics (and I don’t mean red vs. blue) and internal strife and disorganization is appalling.
As for the rest of your question, I most certainly think Fauci, etc., should be pinned to the floor as to why ALL current immigrants don’t have to pass the same sort of rigorous screening (health, morals, legal — by FBI) my wife and any other legal immigrants did, when she came to the US — and we were already many months married.