Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Dr. Fauci: 'Below where we want to be' on Covid-19 vaccinations" video.

  1. Dear Mr Sciutto and Dr Fauci, Thanks Jim for some very, very good reporting on all aspects of life in your country, from the Trump Administration to the current pandemic. In the country I live in on the other side of the world, tourists who come from a country with a new strain of the virus, a 55% higher infection-rate strain, were ordered by the police to remain at their ski resort only to bolt in the night and 100 of them left the quarantine and risk spreading the new variant of the deadly disease more. It makes me think of a Russian tourist I was talking to, and when I mentioned that people here get to decide for themselves what's right or wrong to do on some issues, he surprised me in saying that in Russia, "people need to be told what to do. That's why democracy doesn't work there." I, of course, was revolted, but now, when we hear Dr Fauci, who is one of the most respected public health officials known the world over, tells the American people how to lessen the contagion by wearing masks and staying home rather than traveling over the holidays, we hear that millions of people took to the highways, trains, planes to visit their friends and families and of course raising the possibility of getting infected. People probably don't know that this dreaded disease now has 60,000 people in the UK on long-Covid. A 38 year old doctor got the disease, recovered, but can now only walk a maximum 200 meters. She cannot climb the stairs without a railing. What I see is that people not only in Russia, but everywhere, need to be told what to do when a pandemic starts with no exceptions. This folly of independent people risking their lives and the lives of others because they think their liberty is more important than common sense is an indication of why it was one of the cruelest acts of fate for America to have an unfit person like Donald J. Trump in The White House. Trump's mental illness has been made apparent by him going golfing while Americans are dying.
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