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So when Fauci was wrong, it was only because it was a novel virus. No harm, no foul. When Trump (who was largely being advised by Fauci, by the way) was wrong, he bungled it.
The biggest “failure” that I can see in this article is that he claimed we couldn’t have known this would happen and wasn’t prepared, and a lack of coordinated testing early on. Guess what? Once widespread testing was free and available, the virus continued to spread like wildfire. Not just here but all over the world. It was an extremely contagious virus. The mixed messaging on masking was 100% on Fauci but in this article gets blamed on Trump (not that it mattered, clearly masking was ineffective because everyone I know who wore masks all the time still got covid.) Every country in the world shut down borders, in this article Trump gets blamed both for not shutting them down fast enough and for shutting them down too fast causing people to rush home. There were thousands of hospital beds and ventilators the administration put together that went unused.
