Trump is blaming Fauci now, says he 'made a lot of mistakes'

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/07/10/covid-19-coronavirus-new-mexico-parks-nevada-bars-starbucks-masks/5411146002/

Fauci told the Financial Times he was "sure" his messages were sent to the president even though the two have not been in close contact in the past several weeks.

The comments from the Trump administration's director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases came as Trump has been critical of Fauci and spoken openly about issues on which they disagree.

In a Thursday interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump said Fauci had "made a lot of mistakes" but called him a "nice man." Trump also said "most cases" of coronavirus would "automatically cure. They automatically get better."

Fauci also in the FT interview said Trump was incorrect in claiming 99% of coronavirus cases were "harmless" and may have conflated some statistics.

[onecaliberal]

1. That murdering piece of shit is too stupid to shit the fuck up.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. With that pyscho it's always someone else who is to blame for his shit.

[MoonRiver]

2. Dr. Fauci's only mistake was hooking up with that POS!

[HotTeaBag]

3. Fauci did downplay the severity of the virus and it's risk the the US initially.

But as with all good scientists, when presented with more information quickly understood what was happening and spoke and acted in accordance with the new information.

[Champp]

5. How very Republican of the Republican Casino Hustler in Chief

[Ms. Toad]

6. I agree that he made a lot of mistakes -

but they are pretty much the opposite of the mistakes Trump is suggesting.

He lent his reputation in support of bad Trump policies by largely remaining silent or, at best, when Trump lied or promoted unsafe practices using weasel words to avoid contradicting him. That provided some credence to early missteps (don't wear masks), and now continues to allow people to point to misleading early statements by the government that Fauci knew (or should have known at the time) were false. Those statements are now pointed to as standing for the proposition that the the health experts in the government will say anything to achieve the desired political goal - so we can't trust what they say to be fact-based now.

I get the motivation: Better to be inside in the hopes of influencing decisions than on the outside. But given the political climate we're in, when people truly believe facts are just another form of opinion, it was irresponsible. It will take at least a decade to recover from these well-intended, but ill-advised, attempts to avoid being fired.

[TheFarseer]

7. I think experts

not sure if it was Fauci specifically, did us a great disservice by initially telling us don’t wear masks - Leave that for health professionals. They should have been unambiguous in their advocation of masks.

[SoonerPride]

12. Fauci and the CDC initially said not to wear masks because they were afraid the public would buy all

..........of them and we had such a shortage on PPE they wanted medical people to have them.

So it wasn't a health recommendation as much as it was a supply and demand recommendation.

Of course Donny Dumbfuck doesn't know or care why the guidance changed.

Or that we are still short of PPE.

Or that 135,000 have died.

[TheFarseer]

13. Why didn't they tell us that

And recommend people make cloth masks like lots of people ended up doing? Maybe people would have bought them up anyway like toilet paper but that would be better than having that misinformation out there. I remember them saying stuff like masks are counterproductive because it makes you touch your face more and some other reasons. It gave cover to people that want to say “they don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m going to do what I want”

[aikoaiko]

8. I won't evey forgive Fauci for fucking up the mask messaging.

He wasn't alone. The WHO screwed that up, too.

[Amy-Strange]

9. Talk about calling the kettle black...

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Is that racist remark? Sorry, but sometimes I can't tell.
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[Boomerproud]

10. It's passed time that Dr. Fauci stops smiling and

taking 45s crap. Get a spine. My empathy pool is near empty.

[HipChick]

11. Usual MO - Projection..

[Andy823]

14. I knew it would happen

sooner or later, it's what trump does. There will be a lot more blamed before this is over!

[WyattKansas]

15. If Fauci get fired by Donald Dumbass, I hope he instantly is on the News nonstop going into...

Detail exactly how tRUMP is continuing to fail miserably and exactly how he screwed the country.