
Originally Posted by
duped_samaritan
Nice job Druff. It worked on BCR.
I don’t know what you mean by this? I just quoted Druff because it was on topic. Lie might be too strong, but I was reading everything back then, so nothing Druff posted influenced my thinking whatsoever on this subject
I also don’t agree with his take on Trumps handling of this virus in any way or the idea we get the same results under any administration.
I saw the statement you posted where it gives greater context to his earlier comments. I was aware of that back when it happened.
I knew PPE was short. I also recall initially that before Fauci was in the inner circle, many in the medical world were really pushing Trump to add him to the inner circle because he was so respected. I recall thinking that Fauci was kind of saying the right things to get added to the team imo.
For example. I remember back when Fauci was saying things along the lines of, “at the moment, the flu presents a much bigger risk.” I put it in quotes but I’m going from memory. He said many similar things like that. Sometimes he’d follow it up with some clarifying statement, sometimes not.
That was factually true at the time. That’s sound science. But it also was music to Trumps ear. It kind of ignored the fact that while thats true right now, we can ballpark how much risk the flu will be going forward within some range, while this thing is a whole different beast.
Most of us who were following it closely were far more alarmist than him.
So when I say lie or swamp, thats probably too harsh. I like him. I think he’s a good guy. I also think he emphasized things in such a way that he thought would get him in the room.
If he had phrased things in such a way early like.” the flu presents a bigger problem this week or month, but this virus if it spreads could potentially kill millions”, then I don’t think he gets into the room to help guide decisions.
There was this brief time early where he was very cautious in his statements, at least that I saw, in such a way that would appeal to Trump. We ended up locking things down. Trump did go from it will disappear to taking it seriously for a brief time, so maybe it was an effective approach?
I just don’t think you can have that position he has has occupied without being a bit of a political animal yourself, and I saw shades of that early imo, and was a little put off by it back then. We are talking a matter of weeks. Feb-March, people went from kind of cautious statements to the upmost serious statements very quickly.
I guess I would ask you, if we had a different President, do you think he makes more serious warning statements earlier? I think he would have. I think he would have spoke more freely imo. If I believe that, then I think he was playing politics. I believed it then. I still take his word 100 times out of a 100 over Trumps.