Posted on 05/12/2020 11:35:33 AM PDT by RandFan
Anthony Fauci bluntly told Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday that he has never put himself up as the definitive authority on the coronavirus pandemic.
"I have never made myself out to be the end all and only voice in this. I'm a scientist, a physician and a public health official. I give advice according to the best scientific evidence," Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a Senate hearing about the coronavirus pandemic.
Fauci pushed back on Paul's comments that scientists should "have a little bit of humility" because they do not know what's best for the economy.
"As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don't think you're the end all. I don't think you're the one person that gets to make a decision," Paul said. "We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side saying there's not going to be a surge, that we can safely reopen the economy, and the facts will bear this out."
Fauci responded that he doesn't give economic advice.
"I don't give advice about anything other than public health," Fauci said.
Paul, an ophthalmologist, predicted that there won't be a surge in positive cases and deaths in states that are currently reopening their economies.
Paul said he thinks public health officials who model diseases should own up to being wrong if there's no surge, "because I think that's what's going to happen. In rural states we never really reached any sort of pandemic levels in Kentucky and other states."
Paul also suggested that children should go back to school in the fall because he thinks they are at low risk for catching COVID-19 and have such low levels of mortality.
Fauci responded, noting that humility is saying there's a lot people don't know about the virus, especially about its effects on children.
"We really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children, because the more and more we learn, we're seeing things the virus can do that we didn't see from the studies in China or in Europe," Fauci said.
"You're right, in the numbers that children, in general, do much much better than adults and the elderly, and particularly those with underlying conditions, but I am very careful and hopefully humble that I don't know everything about this disease, and that's why I'm very reserved in making broad predictions," Fauci said
Is this a joke?
Fauci has given diktats on everything from when/if NFL should have a season at all, to meeting women on hookup sites like OKCUPID which he thinks is great.
Paul, an ophthalmologist, predicted that there won't be a surge in positive cases and deaths in states that are currently reopening their economies.
Paul said he thinks public health officials who model diseases should own up to being wrong if there's no surge, “because I think that's what's going to happen. In rural states we never really reached any sort of pandemic levels in Kentucky and other states.”
President Trump needs to listen to Rand Paul.
And just when I thought you couldn’t sound any more retarded you go an exceed expectations.
President Trump made the mistake of making Fauci the center of attention and he just loves it. The President needs to elevate some other doctors. Have a panel and let them talk back and forth and have the President have them around a table the way that Trump did when he talked to those people who had covid19 and got over it.
To clarify my previous post regarding China.
I don’t know the root cause of the virus being unleashed. My assessment of a deliberate attack is based on what we know and have rehashed -
they stopped domestic travel from Wuhan and continued international travel #1
they appear to have influenced the WHO to downplay the seriousness of this for advantage #2
they refused to allow outside access to the virus and share what they knew #3
they played politics with it after they allowed it to be unleashed upon the world #4
Our nation will likely descend into partisan chaos in the coming months prior to the election with fingers pointed all over the place about this virus, the government response, and the deaths and economic damage.
Let us never forget the real culprit in this virus. The CCP. Even if Fauci (and others) got is as badly wrong as we now suspect, he will never be a pimple on the butt of blame for China in my estimation.
“why hasn’t he for seen a global pandemic “
He did:
Prepared the gov’t? Not so much.
Most people still aren't aware of his actions and statements over the years prior to this “crisis”. He's walking a tightrope and as much as he loves his dems, he can only help them by hurting us, and many of his statements are geared towards hurting the nation long term as a whole until he is called out on them and forced to moderate his opinions.
Chortle!
When was Dr Doom ever reserved about making any predictions?
That's all he does everyday. Go on CNN or whatever and spew out garbage predictions based on garbage models.
What a joke.
I’m with Trump too. But I think he made a YUGE mistake listening to the little pip-weasel and should put an end for his continual undermining of Trump’s attempts to return us to normal.
SCARE TACTIC
It’s pathetic to watch Trump cozy up to the little prick, his buddy, “Tony,” every day.
Dr. Doom Fauci: “People dying because of public policies that I advocate is not a health lated issue.”
He said he didn’t give economic advice but two weeks ago he was saying Georgia was making a mistake by opening up.
Fauci doesn't have the humility or self awareness to understand he needs to stop the non-stop interviews. He is obsessed with fame, like Avenatti.
LOL... Less than 300,000 deaths worldwide, but the lockdown saved millions!..... So when will Sweden have corpses lining their streets?..... Since you’re so certain that the lockdown saved millions, would you care to give me an estimate?
Hypochondria is a mental disease. Quit living in fear, even you have to admit this has not worked out the way the doomsayers predicted. This is nothing worse than a flu.
Yeah, Doc, but the press did exactly that.
And you should know that the dumbest folks on the planet are the media - and you allowed them to put you there and said nothing.
So shove it, you never correct “leader”.
Shove it again.
Make it hurt.
On what exactly?
Y'all have scapegoated Fauci because you didn't like the direction (Shutdown) the country chose to go in.
You can't scapegoat a creep who has spent the last few months scapegoating himself. His own words will hang him.
It's slightly worse, but not of the order of magnitude to keep this economy shut down now that the curve is flat to down and we have tests and equipment to deal with the additional hospitalizations and unlike Cuomo, we know to also focus on nursing homes..
What evidence? We just found out that 66% of folks in the hospital with the virus were homebound. How could that be?
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