On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 11:15:30 AM UTC-6, Eric Greenwell wrote:
2G wrote on 12/28/2020 11:19 PM:
On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 9:41:14 AM UTC-8, Bob Leve wrote:
I'm amazed at the number of seeming experts who are littering this site with passionately uninformed opinions yet don't seem to have the credentials or expertise of an infectious disease MD or actual governmental experience..
Lets get back to what this site is about: Sharing information about the wonderful sport of soaring!

You're right (that they are not MDs). However, we have leaders who also aren't MDs but believe and act like they are. So, let's hear from some real experts:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0
This study ranks the effectiveness of virtually all COVID interventions by various governments. It is shocking that certain popular measures (closing restaurants and crisis management plans) might actually be doing more harm than good. And the wearing of masks is fundamentally ineffective as determined by 3 of 4 analysis methods. And our national expert, Tony Fauci, admits that he is "nudging" his herd immunity level based on public polls! Sorry, but this is a *******ization of science. And he is far from being the only one.

There was no "*******ization of science" in Dr. Fauci's public remarks early on, because he was
trying to educate laymen, not reporting to other scientists. He had to do so when there was no
vaccine or reliable measurements of the virus transmissibility, so the estimates of the
percentage of vaccinations needed for herd immunity spanned a wide range. He chose a number
towards the lower end of the guesses, because he thought it would serve the public interest
better, and told us we really didn't know for sure.

But I agree there were some that did distort the science in their announcements, but the big
majority of the public soon learned to choose Dr. Fauci, and those like him, over the
"downplayers".


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We must absolutely be talking about two completely different, but totally valid Anthony Faucis.

The one I saw on live television in February of this year stated "americans have nothing to worry about" when asked about the threat of Covid-19. He did that interview on Fox News. A week later he did another interview on USA Today where he added exactly one sentence as a qualifier and that was "those who travel" might face some risks.

February, 2020.
If that was not downplaying the risk, what is it exactly that you call it?

One month prior, January of 2020, Trump issued travel restrictions that applied to China.

Facts -

Seattle diagnosed the first three cases of Covid-19 in the United States. The doctors saw a common set of symptoms in two patients and developed a protocol. Why? because the CDC had none. The CDC didn't have one for another month and a half AFTER these patients were being treated. The doctors saw a common thread with two previous patients and retested blood samples only to find they had two more cases on their hands.

While I think it's great and it's grand that you have enormous trust in Fauci, I'm puzzled how it is you do not see him as a....what was that term? Oh yeah, a "Downplayer".