Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’

> "Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did. I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the C.D.C.’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that."

Reminds me of the buck passing I saw from the local school board when I attended a meeting to oppose mask mandates during the public comment session. The superintendent was absolutely thrilled that the policy had just been handed down from the governor's office, so he would not personally have to defend forcing young children to strap completely useless bits of cloth across their faces day in and day out. "It's out of our hands!" And today, I'm sure that if you pressed the governor on that decision, he would pass the buck to the state health department or whoever.

> Earlier in the pandemic, the leftist magazine The Drift mocked Fauci as “Doctor Do-Little,”

Some context to that link. The "leftist" magazine is suggesting that Trump killed hundreds of thousands of people with his shockingly poor handling of Covid, and that Fauci should have loudly stated that and gladly been fired for it rather than stay and try to do damage control.

Which is the exact opposite of the others listed as critics were saying.

"people whose loved ones were in the hospital were denying that it was Covid"

Consensus based reality collides with actual reality. Believing something does not make it true.