I find it somewhat amusing that the slurs you espouse about Dr. Fauci are the same as espoused by the opinion shows on multiple media outlets.
I know this wasn't addressed to me, but I am curious as to what you are getting at here. Because "multiple media outlets" have the same opinion as we do, then our opinions must be wrong? Or that we can't think for ourselves and just regurgitate what "multiple media outlets" say? Or are you saying that "multiple media outlets" that we share the same opinion with are the same as the "MSM" that we claim to distrust (if so, I wonder if you could give examples)? Or are you suggesting that while other's opinions are shared by "multiple media outlets", your's aren't, your's are entirely your own?
In any case, I don't see where "multiple media outlets" make something right or wrong, especially as multiple media outlets may disagree with multiple other media outlets.
Dr. Fauci has years of experience actually fighting disease. He doesn't have 'handlers' nor does he 'crave the limelight' -- he appears often in media to continue expressing the current policies based on science.
It appears to me that is at best opinion. It very much appears to me that Fauci is not very trustworthy and in fact is enjoying his position and power, and I think he is afraid to go against the WHO, the politics of the day, and even China, especially when those who disagree, no matter what experience they may have, are in danger of being censored.
Yes, he'd changed from 'no masks' to 'yes masks' as the former was to prevent a run on the limited PPE quantities and reserve them for hospital workers, and the position changed when science showed mask wearing to reduce the spread and additional PPE quantities became available.
It wasn't just ever-changing "science", he stated definitively that masks don't work.
Who would have ever thought we'd get to the point where it is considered okay for our leaders and policy makers to outright lie to us because they're supposedly doing it for our own good? That is more evidence that we are at a very dangerous point in our history. And at the same time we're being lied to, other opinions, no matter what evidence may be behind them, are being censored as dangerous. Isn't this how totalitarianism starts?
Couldn't they just have directed the supply of masks to hospitals, which I think is just what they did anyway? Maybe even encouraged people and organizations to make masks? Oh, wait, didn't they do that?
I would be ashamed to admit that I lied, but apparently Fauci finds it preferable to saying that he just didn't know what he was talking about. But, yeah, sure, we can trust him.
The only people of note who claim masks are not effective are Rand Paul, Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, Tucker Carlson. They for some odd reason are telling everyone of their own mind set they are worthless. It depends on what news source you read or follow. I read several, including those the GOP contends is good. ( I refrain from calling them the ":right" because often they are not , but whatever works.)
Aardvark, are they really the only people, or just the only ones you know of? Are you sure they have said they are ineffective, or have they questioned to what extent they are effective? Are you sure they just made it up on their own without any evidence or listening to knowledgeable people in the field?
This is all another indication of the state we're in. Aardvark can correct me if I'm wrong, but I saw some of what Jordan and Carlson said, and as I recall they asked questions that Fauci, and apparently many of the "multiple media outlets" and other partisans didn't want asked. It compounds the danger when not only is it okay for leaders to lie, but questions aren't allowed.
It also further shows the divide; there is no middle ground, either you agree 100%, or you are 100% wrong. If you question exactly how effective masks are, how long we'll have to continue wearing them, why we have to continue wearing them after getting the vaccine or recovering from the virus; then you're 100% against masks and anti-science and need to be SILENCED! I think it was Carlson who pointed out that true science used to be based on the ability to ask questions and look for the answers. But then Carlson's evil for suggesting such a thing, so what he said needs to be taken out of context and misrepresented so we can see how evil he is.
Anyway that's my thoughts, and if you don't agree with me you're evil!
(At least that seems to be the attitude everyone has any more. But I know a lot of people are understandably under a lot of stress now days.)