Gaius Marcellus Nerva wrote on Apr 26
th, 2022 at 12:19pm:
@hiritus: Do not criticize something that you have not watched. That is why I stated, watch the entire thing. Anyone can call something a conspiracy. I don’t know why you trust Faucci. He is a murderer and a liar. And he has been for a long time even before covid. In this documentary there is nothing to make fun of. I posted this for people to watch, not to criticize it before you watch it.
@CA Everything is not a conspiracy. Actually there is no such thing as a conspiracy, there is only truth and fiction.
Have you ever heard of the “describe a film badly” thing where people intentionally make the movie sound dumb? If the actual description of the film reads like one of those, it’s probably not worth anyone’s time. I could be wrong and this film could be incredibly enlightening, or it could just be what it says on the tin and is to make money (partially through phony health supplements) off of vulnerable fools who want to hear their own beliefs regurgitated to them in some crazy new way. But again, I’m probably way off since I haven’t taken the time to watch it. It’s probably way different than that, right?
Why do I trust Fauci? That’s an interesting question, but for a different reason than you think. My conservative friends go on, and on, and on about Fauci. They talk about Fauci like he’s the Antichrist or something. They seem to be under the impression that Faucibis worshipped like a God, that his word is law. They probably have that view because their preferred media outlets feed them a constant stream of what is essentially propaganda, useless garbage to get outrage out of people. Don’t get me wrong, liberal media outlets do that as well. But dear lord, I can’t keep up with the right wing stuff. It is so often, even to a great extent, exaggerations or outright falsehoods. I was spending more time fact checking for my conservative friends than they did actually reading. I’m glad it’s calmed down.
To get back to your question, I trust Fauci because he’s just a guy doing his job. He is just the top guy of an organization with little power and that has served largely in an advisory capacity. CDC guidelines are just that, guidelines. It’s up to others to put those in place or enforce them. I have no great reverence of hate for him, as I mentioned he’s just the top figure and probably somewhat unwilling face of a bigger organization that is also just doing it’s job to work through this crazy situation. Honestly, I feel bad for the guy. He’s been made a scapegoat, and I think he’s attacked for doing his job and blamed for stuff that’s out of his control.
One more thing, this isn’t the first time Fauci has gotten a lot of public hate. During the AIDS epidemic, there was a lot of anger directed at the NIH and Fauci in particular (since he was the head honcho). People protested outside the headquarters with signs that said “F*** Fauci”. The issue was that these activists had a list of existing drugs that they wanted to get distributed to treat HIV (it’s kind of almost comical how similar this is with drugs like ivermectin today). You can’t really blame the activists, since every day many people were dying. In essence, they were trying to cut corners in the hope that at least one drug would work and save countless lives. The problem for the NIH was that this would distract medical attention from research to test this laundry list of drugs that it thought would be ineffective. However, they eventually did relent to the activists. And you know what? The activists found out that the NIH was right. The drugs they had hoped would work didn’t, and they found that they had wasted valuable time, resources, and hope. The activists then had to change how they did things. Instead of force health to submit to another poorly researched plan, and they became more supportive and informed of medical institutions, and after a while lifesaving treatment for HIV was developed. (A lot of this is part of the documentary “How to Survive a Plague”, a very interesting watch)
There might be a moral in that story.