Bill wrote:https://video.foxnews.com/v/6225847837001#sp=show-clips
Fauci's research may have led us may have led us to where we are now.
Bao wrote:. Merely the evidence of findings in Italy, Spain in early 2019 and proposals even of being found in the GB in the middle of the same year suggests that it could not have been spread from Wuhan. I see no logic to the old assumptions.
"Neither China nor Fauci are why we are in this situation. However, distrust of experts is. Not because they're always right, but because of the number of people who are determined to say they're wrong because they heard it on the internet."
However, governments have their own propaganda and their own agendas. Misinformation and disinformation are spread from all directions.
China had every reason to want to underplay the seriousness of the virus.
However, for the last twelve months, either someone believed what Trump said or they believed Fauci. That conflict is a less noticeable in China. The government there controls the scientists. Here, though, we saw a conflict every day between someone who'd spent 60 years working on infectious diseases and someone who didn't know wtf he was talking about [though he claimed that experts were surprised at how smart he was about that stuff].
2. therefore, how to make sure all/most parties are far more prepared to act quickly/intelligently next time.
1. Dr. Fauci Said Mixed Messaging Was to Blame
When asked about what went wrong with the United States approach to the pandemic, Fauci didn't hold back. The first issue is that "we had a situation where instead of concentrating from the top on the science and realizing that we must make decisions based on data and based on evidence, there was a considerable amount of mixed messaging about what needed to be done from the top down. And that really cost us dearly," he said.
2. Political Divisiveness Was “Destructive,” Fauci Said
The second complication, according to Dr. Fauci, was the political divisiveness that dominated last year. "It makes it extremely problematic to adequately address a public health crisis when you're in the middle of a profound degree of divisiveness in the country," he explained. "When public health issues become politically charged—like wearing a mask or not becomes a political statement—you cannot imagine how destructive that is to any unified public health message."
3. We Needed More “Cooperation” Between States, Says Fauci
Lastly, the United States weren't quite so united when it came to their pandemic approach. "The other thing that we learned is that some of the things about the United States specifically that under different circumstances work well, namely the Federalist approach, where you have 50 States and territories, each of which are given a degree of flexibility of doing things their own way," he said. "The federal government doesn't want to tell the States what to do. So we had a situation where the States were sort of left on their own. So we had a disparate, inconsistent response from one state to the other, which is antithetical. So the fact that the virus is the same, it doesn't know the difference between New York and Pennsylvania, between Louisiana and Mississippi, it's all the same, yet there was such a very, very strong differences, the way different States handle it. So the lesson there was, we needed to have a good cooperation between the federal government and the individual locals, which we did not have."
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