DR. FAUCI - The Medicrat OR . . .?

 As Dr. Fauci was raised to celebrity status in the spring of 2020 by Pres. Trump, few realized how powerful the doctor would become.  Trump, who had been know as something of a germaphobe, was clearly worried about the Wuhan virus, which has now gone through many names: Corona, Covid 19, etc.  The daily tv reports on the virus that featured several medical authorities, including Dr. Fauci, and the President, raised the immunologist to national attention.  Though Fauci had made some bad predictions early in the virus era, that we did not have to worry about it, in time the rift between Fauci and Trump grew.  Fauci became more of a lock-down advocate, thinking basically about the virus and how it might spread.  Trump also had to consider the repercussions of lock-down - closing schools and what that would mean for youth, and for their parents who might not be able to work if the children had to remain home.  Closed factories and stores.  Unemployment.  Social distancing brought social isolation for many.  Drug abuse rose, and drug deaths.  Spouse abuse rose, and child abuse too.  Depression, economic and mental.  Rise in suicides.  And since the only permissable outdoor assembly was left-wing protest, riots, arsons, lootings, crime rose.  But to prevent the spread of the virus in prisons and jails, many convicts were released, and some of them quickly returned to crime.  Murder rates in large cities rose.

     Pres. Trump sought to open up society; Dr. Fauci  gave Democratic Mayors and Governors the green light for ever more crack downs.  He rarely implied they would be long.  After a month or so, there would be relaxation, people would gather, drink, eat, celebrate, and the virus would spread.  Though the death rate was mainly among the elderly or those with pre-existing conditions, the major media (pro-Democrat) would stress the case rate.  And since hospitals would earn more if a patient died of the virus, almost any death would be inspected looking for the virus, and be classified as cause of death.  The infamous Minneapolis criminal George Floyd also had the virus when he died as police sought to arrest him.  But he would not be classified as dying from the virus, because then the liberal authorities could not charge the police with murder.

      When front-line medical workers asserted that combinations of cheap drugs could cure the virus, Dr Fauci attacked them.  He demanded orthodoxy, and soon the dissenters were banned from major media and social media.  Fauci, earlier in his career, had demanded the opponenets of the HIV theory of AIDS be silenced, and he succeeded.  Free speech is not one of his values, nor free inquiry.

     Dr. Fauci seems to favor lock down, a slight loosen up, lock down, loosen, and so on for years.  Wear the mask.  You must obey.  Dr. Fauci, a carreer beaurocrat, is undoubtedly a Democrat, and "President Elect" Joe Biden will make him a chief advisor.  A frew months ago Fauci was diverting US funds to a laboratory in Wuhan, and he has friends in large pharmeceutical corporations.

     Because Dr. Fauci is so important today, and better known than the fabled Dr. Faustus, I suggest a word to summarize his views - FAUCISM.  This would be pronounced fauchism, to distinguish it from fascism.  Though they may be closer than one realizes.

HUGH MURRAY 

THE CORONA VIRUS, TRUMP, AND DR. FAUCI

                              THE SOLUTION
                              By Hugh Murray
    In 2016 I voted for Donald Trump for President of the USA.  I was generally satisfied with his leadership until 2020.  Then the corona-virus hit China, the world, and America.  In response, Trump signed into law spending trillions of dollars to try to maintain the American economy, even giving $1,200 to many (if not most) Americans.  I was shocked - the weird, highly inflationary proposal by Andrew Yang, candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President, became American policy under Republican Trump.  Far worse, Trump appointed a virus committee led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose predictions about the virus are constantly being shown as grossly exaggerated, but whose prescriptions indicate his power-hungry, narrow-minded, authoritarian approach to society.  His implicit assumptions: the virus is quite deadly; we must limit infection so as not to overburden hospitals (while closing hospitals to "elective surgeries" even when they may be necessary to maintain health and life).  Fauci's influence has pushed Trump and state governors to crack down, and place most people under quarantine home arrest.  In the past, this has been imposed on the infected to prevent spread of the disease; under Fauci's expansive government authority - it is imposed on the healthy.  The economy is crumbling.  Fauci speaks of leveling the curve, so the rise in cases become manageable.  When Trump suggests use of an old malaria drug to cure the new virus, Fauci dismisses this as anecdotal.  We would need double-blind tests, etc.  I urge all to watch the US Public Television program, "Independent Lens" about Jim Allison, a cancer researcher who had to go against the medical establishment with his cure for some forms of cancer.  His early success was just anecdotal.  Eventually, he got FDA (Federal Drug Agency) approval for double-blind studies, which were quite costly and paid for by a major pharmaceutical company.  These took 5 years, before he won approval.
    Does Dr. Fauci, who says we must continue restrictive lives until a vaccine is found, mean we must remain shut down for a minimum of 5 more years?  He dismisses "anecdotal" evidence.  So America must await the approval of Dr. Fauci before we can re-open our society.  That would be, at earliest, in 2025.  Of course, he does not give a year, just hints of the virus may rise again in the fall of 2020.  Of course, it will because many have been hidden away under house arrest, unable to get the virus and the immunity it would provide.  Fauci is power-hungry and is destroying America.
    The virus is not very deadly for those under 50.  There is no reason for schools to be closed.  It is terrible that those following Fauci maintained that older patients who had stabilized in a hospital, should be released AND RETURNED to nursing homes, where they spread the virus among the most vulnerable to the disease.  The death rate at some nursing homes is quite high, because they were not meant to handle the serious virus cases (no ventilators, etc.).  But the govt. was contending they could not remain in hospital and must be returned to nursing homes.  A murderous policy.
      An open-America policy would allow most to become infected with the virus, and for the vast majority, there would be no serious consequences.  Recent data shows many more infected than previously thought.  Most are totally unaware they had it.
    Bottom line: I voted for Trump in 2016.  In 2019 I got Democrat Andrew Yang's inflationary policies.  I also got Fauci's police state restrictions against free speech, freedom of assembly, and at Easter, even against freedom of religion.  Horrendous!
      So I propose that President Trump now run against Democrat former VP Joe Biden, but run against Biden for the nomination of the Democratic Party for President in 2020.