One of Trump’s major deficiencies in handling this is the complete omission of medical professionals on the Task Force who have ideas similar to Dr. Atlas. He has by my count, 5 doctors on the Task Force including the execrable Drs. Fauci and Birx, SG Adams, Dr. Redfield and Dr. Carson in his role as HUD Secretary. Sadly, he is letting Birx and Fauci control the narrative on this.
Oh yes indeed. And they have got him locked in a box that I don't know how he's going to get out of. If he contradicts either of them, the lame stream media will set up a great hue and cry that "Trump is anti-science!!!" That's the kiss of death these days....
It seems to me that Drs. Fauci and Birx see the world through the lens of their shifting (and shifty) model. NOTHING is outside of that model, no other considerations need to be addressed. It's all "data,, data, data," and "testing, testing, testing." But what "data?" And what "testing?"
What qualifies as "data" is what fits their model. Other data are irrelevant. And what on earth are they testing for? That seems to shift around a lot, too.
And evidently they are blithely unaware that contract tracing boils down to monitoring the movements of private citizens and invading their privacy. Are we willing to sacrifice personal liberty because liberty is negligible in their model? After all, you can't weigh or measure "liberty." The scientific method cannot deal with things that are substantially immaterial.