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I was thinking about this last night and now can see the parallels between Fauci and at least the Covid 19 pandemic.

1. Before it really began in earnest, the pandemic was turned into a political football and a weapon against the political enemies of group to which Fauci belongs. They deliberately said the opposite of whatever President Said. Talk about guns has always been the same
2. There was and is still no attempt to get to the causal roots of the pandemic. Where did it come from? How was it spread? Instead, a bunch of rules were concocted and all of the available evidence ignored.
3. There is no analysis of why some people are more vulnerable to the worst symptoms or to what prophylactic measures can be taken to help deal with those situations. With guns, the flaws in the NICS system and the lack of prosecution of straw purchasers are also ignored.
3. The rules were applied to the "little people" while all of the Elites who made them not only ignored them but did so with excuses if they were caught. Mayor Lightfoot's having to get her hair done because she was on camera was among the most laughable.
4 Passes were given for rioters and looters to ignore the restrictions while business owners were shut down and jailed for less. Criminals with histories of gun law violations are released on subsequent arrests with no bail. I had to shake my head at the Kenosa bar shooter having had previous gun law violations while the Liberal pols rail about gun show loopholes.
5 Now, the politicians want to and are making permanent the emergency restrictions that were supposed to be used to help control the worst of the spread without any evidence that they are doing any good. Assault rifle ban, anyone?

So, yes. Gun violence is a public health crises. Not because of the danger to public health but in how the political establishment treats it.

parabelum wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:07 pm One of the biggest flops of Trump’s administration. Fauci is a detestable amoeba.

In fairness, President Trump inherited Fauci as he did many of the other Washington bureaucrats. It appears that Fauci had been as ineffective at dealing with previous health problems as he has been over this one but the D.C. cesspool has never been good about elevating people to positions of power and authority because of their skills and results. This pandemic was on Trump before he could search for an alternative to Fauci. I"m guessing that jettisoning the good doctor would have generated even more of a firestorm over Trump's handling of the matter though in retrospect, it is hard to imagine how Trump should have felt that way.

The logical fallacy is that Fauci or anyone else in that role could have guided the whole country through the Covid mess. One size NEVER fits all one looking at the diversity between NY and SD, for example. Just about everything except the rapid development of vaccines done at that Federal level was wrong and i doubt any single person could have made that different from a medical perspective. We have to take our eyes of Washington and the Faucis.