‘Fire Fauci!’ Failing The Rationality Test In The Kingdom Of Unreason
Over the weekend, Donald Trump's favorite pandemic adviser, Scott Atlas, appeared on Russian state television to deride lockdowns and implicitly criticize Anthony Fauci.
America's public health experts are “killing people with their fear-inducing shutdown policies," Atlas told RT which, again, is Russian state television. It was a surreal spectacle: A US government official charged with protecting the public from a deadly epidemic appearing on a Kremlin-backed news channel to criticize Americ
On a positive note…
“But this, like any other detachment from reality, cannot be anything but short-lived.”
I would like to think that if Trump fired Fauci, one of the major legit media outlets would pick him up and give him a platform to provide truthful information. And maybe Fauci would feel more free to call it as he sees it rather than hiding from Trump
And yet, the people who need to absorb the message would still ignore it. It all comes back to whatever glorious leader says.
I suspect that he’s not ‘hiding’. The truth is that he’s probably restricted from access to media outlets and in what information he could pass on to the media if allowed an interview. What you’re suggesting is why Trump isn’t going to fire him. Unless Trump is re-elected and no longer wants to pretend that he actually cares what happens to the American people.
Fauci’s mistake was trying to keep Trump happy enough that he wouldn’t get fired and
would be able to influence the Gov’ts response. All he did was give Trump credibility, by standing next to him while he lied to Americans.
Trump can’t fire Fauci. He’s not a political appointee but rather a Federal Civil Service employee. The Director of NIH (his “supervisor”) could with cause, and that would be hard to prove and a circus. Trump did what he could, which is to appoint a radiologist with minimal experience in infectious disease or epidemiology to be his Covid advisor. Likely the only M.D. he could find who met the ultimate test: loyalty to Trump.