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Originally Posted by spence
If you listen to the actual interview Fauci qualifies that statement very specifically.
I know you’re busy, here it is in full.
http://www.catsimatidis.com/dr-antho...rus-in-the-us/
His remark is based primarily on very thorough port of entry screening measures that he anticipated but never really materialized.
Hell, my sister landed in the US from an international flight in mid March as things were really blowing up and didn’t even get as much as a single question related to the pandemic when clearing customs. On nearly the same day a flight of spring breakers flew from her departure airport landing in the US with 44 infected.
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OK, so I listened to the full interview and there was no hint of Fauci backtracking or qualifying its being, as I quoted him, “a very, very low risk to the United States,” Fauci said during an interview with radio show host John Catsimatidis. “But it’s something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously... It isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about. Because we have ways of preparing and screening of people coming in [from China]"
Whether or not something did or didn't materialize later doesn't take away from the "messaging" he gave at the time which was similar in essence to the so-called "downplaying" that Trump was excoriated for. According to wdmso and, I presume, all anti-Trumpers, Fauci is allowed to "evolve" his thinking, but Trump is not. And that's the point I was making.
Obviously, it turned out to be more serious than Fauci thought. Or than Trump, or Pelosi, and Diblasio, and most other lefty commentators thought and expressed at the time. But Trump is the dummy who gave us bad "messaging" which caused the crisis.