From the many things that I have learned from being a state police Trooper and Investigator is that I should never trust what people tell me, unless it can be corroborated. Of course, this does not include the simplest of things such as, if someone would tell me that itâs hot outside. After all, itâs late in July, we are in Pennsylvania, so yes, it most likely is.
Not being an epidemiologist or any other type of scientist puts me at a disadvantage. The doctor could tell me almost anything connected to epidemiology and I would believe him. In the early stages of this disease, the doctor was kind of all over the place with his advice. âNo need to wear a maskâ to âEveryone should be wearing a mask.â âNo need to close the bordersâ to âItâs best to close the borders.â And so on.
Dr. Fauci has won just about every award or medal in science that is available, including his work on Ebola, HIV and SARS, plus others. So, based on that, I shouldnât doubt any of his comments or advice, except that I do. Why? My main reason is because even though Dr. Fauci has been acclaimed as the know-it-all in diseases and especially viruses, other doctors with less astonishing resumes have from time to time contradicted some of his assertions. This causes confusion, at least on my part it does.
I must admit, right from the first time that I heard him speak on TV, I found him to be questionable with some of his responses to the questions asked by the press. I canât put my finger on just what it is about him, but he kind of gives me doubts about some of the things that he reports on. For example; here is a segment from an article that I read in âNational Geographic.â
âIf you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated ⌠Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,â Fauci says. Based on the scientific evidence, he also doesnât entertain an alternate theoryâthat someone found the coronavirus in the wild, brought it to a lab, and then it accidentally escaped.â
It was my impression that this was something that the entire scientific community had agreed upon. Now, I read this and say to myself, âWhat? Where did this come from?â Thereâs much more that I could write about this, but I know many of our SF members do not like or read long posts, so I will stop here, but in closing, I would just add that each of us has to decide for ourselves how we are going to separate the facts, the truthful facts from the b.s.