Fauci is at least answering some hard questions.
in Fauci’s confession, “Something clearly went wrong.” The American right has a well-honed list of Faucian crimes that render this “something” into an ironic understatement, and at least some of the items in the indictment are legitimate grievances.
More to the point, the soul-searching in which Fauci and other liberals are currently engaged has absolutely no parallel on the right. Conservatives got COVID extremely wrong. Where is the accountability? Where is the course correction? The answer is that they don’t exist, because the conservative movement is incapable of engaging in them.
Start with the subject of Strassel’s snark, the COVID death toll. Donald Trump threatened to fire Dr. Nancy Messonnier, a top CDC official, for telling reporters in February 2020 that the virus would likely spread to the United States. Trump insisted that month that China was “getting it under control more and more, that the United States had just 15 people [with COVID], and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” He repeated over and over: “Just stay calm.
predicted COVID would kill just 500 Americans, before correcting a small computational error and revising the prediction to 5,000 .
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