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I absolutely despise Fauci (he literally botched three pandemics), but if he's targeted it'll be for all the wrong reasons.
Bring on the downvotes, libs, as always, they don't change facts. He botched AIDS so badly that gay rights activists were calling for him to be executed by firing squad. He opposed lockdowns for doctors returning from treating Ebola, creating a significant risk for a major domestic outbreak just so a couple people could go out to bars and shit.
But most importantly, he lied to all of us about masks, saying they don't work, even saying they would increase your chances of catching Covid. Like 80% of the bullshit anti-maskers pushed came directly from the CDC, before they said, "Oopsie! Turns out we were wrong!" There was never any evidence or any reason for them to say masks don't work. No international organization ever made those sorts of claims, and in other countries they somehow knew to wear masks right from the start.
The reason he lied is to cover Trump's ass after he sold off all the PPE. They wanted to discourage the public from buying masks so that doctors could have them, but this breach of public trust is largely responsible for creating the anti-mask movement. And once they actually started telling the truth, the public was able to contribute by making cloth masks and donating them to hospitals.
~~Mods, I know you're going to remove this comment for "misinformation" (daring to impugn the honor of a liberal media darling), but when you do, please comment a reply listing a single false thing I said, because I base my beliefs on evidence and would love to be proven wrong.~~
I stand corrected on the last point, apologies to the mods for that presumption.
Your personality is insufferable. You really talk like that?
in b4 “ad hominem, that’s wrong,” because I know you’ll immediately fire off about that.
Maybe you should chill the fuck out and stop searching for new ways to be passively antagonistic.
If I said what I did in the nicest way possible, I'd get just as many downvotes.
Also, to be pedantic, it's not ad hominem, it's tone policing 😜
Real “the enemy of my enemy is my hero” energy from the Morning Joe crowd. Fauci has been terrible, but mostly for different reasons from why Republicans say he’s been terrible.