In the 1978 comedy Animal House, the character Flounder is distressed to find his 1964 Lincoln Continental badly wrecked following a string of hijinks with his fraternity brothers.
The line was meant as a joke, a bit of tongue-in-cheek ribbing for the role Flounder’s fraternity brothers played in the trashing of his car. It’s a perfectly outrageous thing to say in a perfectly outrageous comedy. It’s funny because it’s a sentiment that should never be uttered in sincerity. Certainly, one wouldn’t dare to use it as a real-life defense for the mismanagement of a real-life public health debacle.
He added, “But 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. But I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other.”
One of Fauci’s many public spars with Sen. Rand Paul proves as much. During one of the earlier congressional hearings on the pandemic, Paul warned of nationwide school closings in 2020, saying, “If we keep kids out of school for another year, what’s going to happen is the poor and underprivileged kids who don’t have a parent that’s able to teach them at home will not get to learn for a full year.”
In response, Fauci shot back, “I’m a scientist, a physician and a public health official. I give advice on the best scientific evidence.”
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