Truth to power ... too little, too late
As hard as I try, I can’t quite buy the arguments of Drs. Fauci and Birx.
While Trump’s outrageous lies and clownish theories minimized the dangers of COVID-19, the two contagious-disease experts did little to tell the real story - the one that was obvious to both of them.
Yes, Fauci’s body language and nuanced contradictions suggested that he wasn’t all aboard with Trump’s nonsense, but he could have been a lot more explicit in his contradictions. Meanwhile, Birx remained inscrutable.
They didn’t call B.S. on Trump when it could have helped most, they say, so that they could stay on the team and work for the good of the country from within.
That makes sense to some extent, but surely they soon recognized that strategy wasn’t working. Trump was not about to listen to reason. While he continued to downplay the threat, COVID19 continued to kill Americans and ravage the U.S.
Those who knew the truth - Fauci, Birx, writer Bob Woodward, etc. - should have joined forces and made their case against Trump’s catastrophic lies.