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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: NAG1 who wrote (455674)10/20/2020 9:41:41 PM
From: Kip S  Read Replies (3) of 542946
 
I was reading an article where it said that in a poll about who they trusted about COVID, 68% trusted what Fauci was saying and about 40% trusted Trump. I find it incredulous that only 68% trust Fauci and as much as 40% trusted Trump.

I think you know who the 40% are.

As for Fauci, 68% is about my trust level. He has been distancing himself more recently, so maybe somewhat higher lately, but early on he made a number of statements I personally recall that were either wrong or indefensible, IMHO. He stated early on that masks were not necessary for the general population--just for healthcare workers--at a time I am 100% sure he knew that was not true (Don't have exact date handy.) I know the reasoning, that healthcare workers deserved "first dibs" on the masks, but that statement was indefensible to me.

Secondly, he stated a number of times that we would have a vaccine by the end of November or by the end of the (this) year. He certainly knew at that time that anything approved in that time interval would not have proven safety and efficacy. I will cut him a very little bit of slack on this one because now it at least appears possible that a vaccine may be approved by yearend, but the very limited supply (if any) is not at all what he was inferring in those earlier statements.

I don't mean to be too hard on him, as he was under a lot of pressure, but I still parse what he says carefully.

Needless to say, my trust in the other in the poll is a negative number.
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