[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

No offense but I'll take Dr. Fauci's advice over yours.

Fauci said he does not anticipate a situation where a national shutdown will be necessary.

That's the other problem - there's literally hours of conversation from Fauci (who has been an invaluable source of information throughout this) - but it's being cut apart piecemeal to be put to use by both sides to their own ends.

This is just 6 minutes of almost literally more information than one can actually listen to, but it illustrates my point a bit:

“It’s certainly going to get worse before it gets better.” NIH official Dr. Anthony Fauci says it could be up to “eight weeks or more” of shutdowns and working from home as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the U.S. https://t.co/OSp7OkbziN pic.twitter.com/bS1IQiAy58

— Good Morning America (@GMA) March 13, 2020

You can literally cull out whatever message from this 6 minute interview as you want to cull. You can pull this '6-8 weeks' line as GMA did on their header and disregard the 'i hope it will be shorter' line. You can cite the 'i think we should proportionally shut down schools' section or note that he also says he doesn't anticipate a national shutdown.

I would absolutely encourage people to listen to Fauci over me - duh. The guy's great. But actually listen to damn near everything he says. He's not really an alarmist, nor does he claim to know what's actually going to happen. And again, he's using that same curve - the curve that REQUIRES acquired immunity - in his presentation so again, I think it's hard to say he's advocating for any kind of national halt.

So how is 'Dr. Fauci's advice' clearly in opposition to anything I've said?