You think you know EVERYthing
They’re going after Fauci, because of course they are.
Yesterday, Fauci said during the Senate’s hearing that there are serious consequences if cities or states in the United States reopen too quickly: “There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control,” he said.
Fauci’s warning contradicts the stance of Trump and Republicans who have been gunning for* a swift reopening to save the economy and took Fauci’s statement as a personal attack.
[*not “gunning for” but advocating for – I can’t offhand think of a parallel metaphor for that]
Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, sparred with Fauci during the hearing yesterday when asking the epidemiologist why schools can’t reopen if children are seeing low virus-related death rate.
“As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all,” Paul said. “I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make the decision.”
Rude piece of crap. Of course he’s not, nor does he claim to be. He gets to give the government the best possible medical advice, because that’s his job.
Later, on Fox News, host Tucker Carlson repeated Paul’s criticism of Fauci, saying: “He is not, and no one is, the one person who should be in charge when it comes to making long-term recommendations. This guy, Fauci, may be even more off-base than your average epidemiologist.”
This guy, Tucker Carlson, may be and is an ignorant hack who will say anything, no matter how crazed and mendacious, to prop up Bad Orange Man.
How about “Trumpeting for”?
Good one.
Fauci doesn’t know everything – just orders of magnitude more than any of the asshats in the administration, Congress, or Fox.
I liked what we saw when he was conferencing from home: a simple home office with modest shelves and lots of books which I have no doubt he has read. The most un-Trumplike surroundings possible.
Also good is Neal Katyal – a massive solid wall of books, stretching out of sight in all directions including up. I spotted some fat orange Penguins – the Vanity Fair Tom Jones type thick.
Yeah, but also… Everyone knows why it’s a bad idea to have kids back in school even though they are much less likely to suffer if they are infected with the virus: because they can spread it to everyone in their households! If the schools are full of kids, many more people will become infected!
Why does Rand Paul enjoy looking stupid?
I hate to break it to you, but Neal Katyal’s room background is fake. He’s admitted it:
https://twitter.com/ratemyskyperoom/status/1260400499154661377
And, unlike some (you all know who), Fauci doesn’t claim to know everything.
As for books, my students noticed when I moved my location from a room with a plain white wall (the only one in my house like it) to my computer office with a wall of books behind me. I can’t claim to have read them all, though, because that bookcase houses the to-be-read books. There are other bookshelves that house my already-been-read books.
Weird–you can see part of a bookshelf in the video view of my office space, and most of the books on it are to-be-read books, a shelf of nonfiction (gradually getting smaller) and half a shelf of fiction. My actual books are downstairs in the main room.