If only trump had been in office for 3 years to rectify the prior administration's shortfalls.
3 years to correct decades of problems. Many of them created by the same people that Useful Idiots like you think are awesome.
Even Fauci admitted that all the red tape and bureaucracy people like him piled on got people killed during the HIV crisis.
But you guys think Fauci is awesome.
Like one epidemiologist said about himself, he's not in government, therefore he can conduct real science.
Fauci is good at one thing at this point in my mind, standing up to Trump's gaslighting false comments to the public. His preparedness for this situation after decades in the same role seems pretty horrible.
I'm very curious to know what exactly you think the NIH does, what you think NIAID does, and what you think Dr. Fauci's role at NIAID entails.
I have no idea what those organizations do outside of manage public health for the country. I assume his position is to prepare the United States to handle a pandemic like this, is that not accurate? If it's not him, who is it?
The NIH is a funding agency. Their job is to identify unmet needs in health science and to direct taxpayer money toward basic and applied biomedical research projects that help address those needs. The NIAID, under the umbrella of the NIH, directs NIH monies toward projects that address Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Fauci's role is much like that of a hedge fund manager. He is in charge of curating what is (hopefully) a diverse portfolio of research projects working on that subset of diseases. Secondarily, the NIH is also a biomedical research institute. Researchers there run groups actively researching in their respective disease areas. I don't know this for a fact, but Dr. Fauci may also run a virology lab that trains other scientists.
That's it. There's nothing about pandemic preparedness that's part of his official role at the NIH. That's why Obama set up a task force in the first place.
So Fauci deals with known knowns? Who deals with unknown knowns I wonder?
Well, the first place you must start is understanding the redundancy on top of redundancy that exists inside the Federal Gov't. Thus, when someone says this or that was shut down, they must be laughed at profusely, because nothing is ever really shut down inside the Federal Gov't.
One place in the redundancy chain is the Office of Counter Proliferation and Biodefense within the NSC. Which still exists, was not involved in any RIF's and was simply streamlined within the operational structure.
Even the bureaucracy loving Obama Administration admitted in a 2015 directive that the NSC staff was too large and needed to be streamlined and reduced. Note that reductions in Federal Gov't most often mean simply moved to another area, nobody really losses their job.
CCP-America as a collective just won't accept the fact that the Chinese lied, and by the time everyone else, yes, even those super super smart Europeans figured out what was going on, it was too late. 5 million people had left Wuhan without being tested. Northern Italy, full of Chinese owned factories and businesses was already infected to the gills.
