Tony Fauci, who I knew personally for a time in the 1970-1980s, has managed to function at a high level in the Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations.
To work under the control of political appointees of both parties for that long involves a certain skill set, which I and most people lack.
Love letters are certainly one of the tickets for admission to the game. Is it disgusting? To normal people, sure.
But, if you want to spend your life understanding the human immune system at the highest level and making revolutionary discoveries that save lives, keep science alive, and protect your scientists from politics while the people who pay for your labs all want happy talk and photo ops every single day, sometimes you write letters.
“But, if you want to spend your life understanding the human immune system at the highest level and making revolutionary discoveries that save lives, keep science alive, and protect your scientists from politics while the people who pay for your labs all want happy talk and photo ops every single day, sometimes you write letters.”
I can understand that.
What has not been explained, AFAIK, is the disparate response between H1N1 and COVID-19.
Yes but the letters are not drippy, they are professional. He clearly never intended these letters to be made public since they are marked secret.
Perhaps he will write a note to President Trump.