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Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert

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Re: Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert

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This is absurd. The cdc failed completely.

Dr Anthony Fauci isn’t head of the CDC, and it’s the White House that has taken control of executive narration, hence why the CDC has so few televised statements these last 2 months.

It’s been a persistent theme that if you looked abroad at media and foreign scientific and government announcements, you’d get a pretty good predictor on what your own government might begin to merely signal as precursor weeks from now.

So people have been trying to form fuzzy pictures based on the disorganized interleaving of ad hoc mayors, governors, business leaders, institutions, all making their little ad hoc decisions.

Re: Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert

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But isn't he am "old white man" who is "mansplaining"? Suddenly, meritocracy doesn't seem so bad after all, I guess.

Nice straw man you built and then deconstructed. Nothing about meritocracy prevents old white men from being recognized or successful.

Not a "straw man" at all.

Also, in the second part of your answer, you seem to agree with me. I am not criticizing meritocracy, but those people who try to get rid of it. And who are now very silent, suddenly.

Re: Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice straw man you built and then deconstructed. Nothing about meritocracy prevents old white men from being recognized or successful.

Not a "straw man" at all. Also, in the second part of your answer, you seem to agree with me. I am not criticizing meritocracy, but those people who try to get rid of it. And who are now very silent, suddenly.

"Meritocracy" doesnt exists and very likely never will.

Re: Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert

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This strikes me as tone deaf at a time when the focus should be on systemic failures and possible improvements, and the millions who will be impacted. This is a defense in fear of Fauci being let go, given the patterns of the administration in many other areas.

so is that Dr Fauci's fault or the administration's?

Re: Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a "straw man" at all. Also, in the second part of your answer, you seem to agree with me. I am not criticizing meritocracy, but those people who try to get rid of it. And who are now very silent, suddenly.

"Meritocracy" doesnt exists and very likely never will.

Of course it does, at least in the West. Maybe not a perfect meritocracy, but that is... or rather was, the ideal to strive for.

Re: Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert

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This is absurd. The cdc failed completely.

Dr Anthony Fauci isn’t head of the CDC, and it’s the White House that has taken control of executive narration, hence why the CDC has so few televised statements these last 2 months. It’s been a persistent theme that if you looked abroad at media and foreign scientific and government announcements, you’d get a pretty good predictor on what your own government might begin to merely signal as precursor weeks from now.…

Google has been plastering CDC stuff all over YouTube. Almost like the CDC made an end run around the TV blockade.
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