Fauci: Bad policies and poor trade offs

Fauci has a well-earned reputation for putting his ego well ahead of the science or the economics of Covid and the poor political policies that arose from that ego.

July 18, 2020. Here is what happens when you pay too much attention to numbers that shock and don't pay attention to numbers that matter. In this case, tens of thousands of Americans die and tens of millions of Americans suffer unemployment, bankruptcy and other harsh economic consequences. It has become a lose-lose situation, brought to you by 'experts,' power hungry liberal politicians, and unaccountable, no-count 'journalists'.

Some highlights:

Fauci also said he expects the public to compare the Covid-19 pandemic to the 1918 pandemic flu, which killed around 50 million people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Well, it so happens that the US death rate from the Spanish Flu was 655 per 100,000 persons (675,000 deaths in a population of 103 million). That’s obviously orders of magnitude larger than the 39 per 100,000 deaths to date from the Covid.

In fact, the impact of the Spanish Flu was not only 17X greater in terms of the overall mortality rate, but it was also a true Grim Reaper in the sense that it struck across the entire age spectrum of the population.

It actually started in the giant domestic military training compounds stood up by Woodrow Wilson to join a European war that was none of America’s business, but the virus did kill tens of thousands of 18-30 year-old draftees in their own barracks long before they got to the killing fields of France.