He's an immunologist who has worked for the U.S. government since the Reagan administration.
This doesn't sound basic to me:
Background information and profile of NIAID Director, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
www.niaid.nih.gov
It says right in that article "Anthony S. Fauci, M.D." That's his credentials. Yes, he's obviously got a lot of administrative and speaking experience in the medical field, and he has been recognized for his research work, and I don't begrudge him any of his outstanding accomplishments, but:
Fauci's credentials and admin work isn't nearly the same thing as having a doctorate in theoretical epidemiology, which Dr. Sunetra Gupta has, not to mention she's a Professor at the Oxford Martin School and part of their Central Team, or that her partner in The Great Barrington Declaration, is Martin Kulldorff, who is also a PhD and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, or other cosigners like Dr. Ulrike Kämmerer, professor and expert in virology, immunology and cell biology, University of Würzburg, Germany. Literally thousands of other medical professionals with equal or better credentials than Fauci completely disagreed with him about lockdowns, but instead of agreeing with them, Fauci's response was to misrepresent them when he made his stupid offhanded comments about herd immunity like here:
"Quite frankly that is nonsense," White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said of herd immunity against Covid-19.
www.cnbc.com
Compare that to what the other
better credentialed experts were
really saying here:
Focused Protection: The Middle Ground between Lockdowns and “Let it Rip.” Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, Martin KulldorffNovember 25, 2020 Both COVID-19 itself and the lockdown policy reactions have had enormous adverse consequences for patients in the US and around the world. While the harm...
gbdeclaration.org
Why should we care when it's almost all over? Aren't we sick and tired of hearing about it yet? That doesn't do justice to the literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives sent into chaos along with ruined livelihoods, suicides, and the numbers of deaths from poverty related causes for decades to come, that the lockdowns will be responsible for, and that Fauci was front and center in making happen.
And BTW: Yes I've read the counterpoint against the GBD, and virtually all of it continues to misrepresent it or uses fear based verbiage to scare people away from it rather than reflecting what it actually says and advocates. There has been an effort to suppress it, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's more of an effort to quell studies related to their concerns in the wake of the pandemic because it would mean having to be accountable for billions of dollars and who knows how many lives.
It is only because of your more favorable opinion of him that I put him in my gray basket, on the assumption that he honestly believes he was doing the right thing at the time. Who knows for sure? I don't. I'm just writing down what it looks like to me. When there's that much money and that much politics around an issue, nobody is immune from the condition, and he was right in the middle of it all.
Literally thousands of experts around the world disagree with his perspective on the lockdowns, but against those odds, he just happens to be in a position to misrepresent them to the point where they were being banned or discouraged from voicing their concerns? And yet you
like this guy? Seriously? Why? Grey basket — really grey – grey basket.