I don't fault Trump for not changing horses mid-crisis
A pandemic is in some ways a very unintuitive and alien sort of disaster. The sort of thing that actually IS best left to experts... when they're worthy of that trust.
The real problem here was that Fauci has been in his seat since 1984. He should have been nudged out the door in the early 00's.
He also bungled the last epidemic he was supposed to deal with, AIDS. For much the same reasons, proper response is politically untenable.
You are not allowed to shut down all travel from China. You are not allowed to tell the gays to keep it in their pants so they don't practically genocide themselves
I don't fault Trump for not changing horses mid-crisis
A pandemic is in some ways a very unintuitive and alien sort of disaster. The sort of thing that actually IS best left to experts... when they're worthy of that trust.
The real problem here was that Fauci has been in his seat since 1984. He should have been nudged out the door in the early 00's.
He also bungled the last epidemic he was supposed to deal with, AIDS. For much the same reasons, proper response is politically untenable.
You are not allowed to shut down all travel from China. You are not allowed to tell the gays to keep it in their pants so they don't practically genocide themselves
He should have been nudged out in the 80's...