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🇺🇸 Fauci’s Farewell

🇺🇸 Fauci’s Farewell

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Fauci’s Farewell

Dr. Anthony Fauci delivering an AIDS-related talk in 1985. Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0)

Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced he would retire from his current role. Fauci has been the most recognized public face in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reporting From the Left: Fauci to leave federal government in December after decades as nation's top infectious disease expert (CNN)

Reporting from The Right: CNN, MSNBC, and more shower Fauci with praise after reveal he will step down: 'In Fauci we trust' (Fox News)

From The Flag: Dr. Fauci’s efforts to inform and guide the public throughout the pandemic have been met with both overwhelming support and intense vilification. Here’s how both sides are reacting to his announced retirement.

LEFT-LEANING SENTIMENT

Dr. Fauci Is a Dedicated Public Servant. Vilifying Him is Unjust.

Fauci could have avoided his vilification by leaving much sooner, but he was resolute in his commitment to providing a public service.
We’re unlikely to find another public official as committed as Fauci, given the malicious attacks inflicted on him by Republicans.
Even under President Biden, Fauci has remained a punching bag for the right. His persistence amid the onslaught is honorable.

“Fauci carried all our angst and anger with patience and decency” Robin Givhan, The Washington Post: “Fauci is a man who is publicly at ease with contradictions at a time when people want absolutes. What politicians call flip-flopping and voters call mistakes, he calls science. In science, there’s a difference between a hypothesis and a theory. The former is an educated guess; the latter is an assessment based on data. It takes a while to get to the answers, to settle on a theory. But we know that. We learned that in middle school science. Trial and error. The sludge test. Our forgetfulness has been willful. But Fauci just kept telling the public what he knew, where things stood, what he hypothesized at any given moment as he awaited the data. … It was terrifying knowing that we were living in a real horror movie and there was no guarantee that a hero would come along to save the day.”

“We May Never See Another Lifelong Public Servant Like Anthony Fauci” Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic: “Fauci understood that as new pathogens appeared more frequently, it became increasingly likely that one would emerge with the rare set of capacities for pandemic spread—and that it would drive our public health and health care systems to the brink. What he probably did not—could not—understand was how that pathogen would convulse our politics. After all, Fauci, who announced on Monday that he’s retiring in December, is a relic of an era when government service transcended partisan warfare. The reign of President Trump ended that era—to many Republicans today, the government is just a tool to exact revenge on political enemies—and Fauci’s departure from NIAID shows why we should fear what comes next. … The demonization of Fauci is about more than one man. It’s the ultimate triumph of the right’s politics of grievance and lies. There’s only one party that still believes in a politics of efficient, effective government, and we’re all the worse for it.”

One more opinion piece from the Left: Thanks, Dr. Fauci, for working to keep us all safe CST Editorial Board, Chicago Sun Times

RIGHT-LEANING SENTIMENT

Good Riddance

Fauci pushed for policy measures with an unfounded certitude, and many of those measures have been more damaging than helpful.
The ego behind Fauci’s views on the pandemic led to incredibly destructive policies, and he’s unlikely to be held accountable.
Fauci is announcing his retirement in anticipation of a Republican-controlled Congress that may attempt to hold him responsible.

“Dr. Fauci and the Covid Rule of Experts” The Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal Opinion: “His reassuring authority won acclaim in the early weeks of the pandemic as Americans struggled to make sense of the threat. 'Fifteen days to slow the spread,' he famously said in March 2020, and the Trump Administration and America picked up his refrain. … The two weeks would stretch to two years. The uncertainties of the pandemic’s course weren’t his fault, but the certainty of his policy prescriptions certainly was. … He and a passel of public-health experts used their authority to lobby for broad economic lockdowns that we now know were far more destructive than they needed to be. He also lobbied for mask and vaccine mandates that were far less protective than his assertions to the public. Dr. Fauci’s influence was all the greater because he had an echo chamber in the press corps and among public elites who disdained and ostracized dissenters.”

“Good riddance to dangerous Dr. Fauci” Post Editorial Board, New York Post: “He demanded contact tracing, a measure as costly as it was useless. He called for economic shutdowns and national school closures. He ridiculed efforts to focus protective efforts narrowly on the truly vulnerable — the elderly and the immunocompromised. He mocked the idea that people who recovered from COVID had some degree of natural immunity (after having once proposed it himself). … His overgrown ego, in short, led him to promote the most destructive federal and state policies in recent US memory. … Yet Fauci’s chief sin likely came before COVID even reached these shores: As chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he championed and oversaw funding for labs in China that performed gain-of-function research on viruses. Then, as the face of the nation’s coronavirus response, he joined the drive to render unmentionable the idea that the virus might have leaked from that Wuhan lab.”

One more opinion piece from the Right: Tucker Carlson: What Else Has Dr. Fauci Lied About?

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America’s Trust in Fauci Declined

At the beginning of this year, polling found that Americans' confidence in Dr. Fauci’s guidance was waning. Specifically, the survey determined that the belief that Fauci was giving trustworthy pandemic advice had fallen to 65%. This figure was 71% seven months earlier, in April 2021. (Annenberg Public Policy Center)

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