Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Firing Fauci would be a 'disastrous mistake': Guy Benson" video.

@Donaldson7185 : Yes. That's why I depend on CNN for all my news. gag Trish is over the top in a low-cut blouse. The fact is, the experts have been all over the map on their recommendations. Fauci is one of those experts who's changed his tune numerous times. It's clear that the experts, themselves, don't have a clue. NOTHING we get out of China is to be trusted, yet you mouth-breathers recite CCP propaganda talking points as if Xi is traipsing down the mountain with stone tablets. And a medical doctor is always going to err on the side of medicine and may not fully understand the much greater harm that will result from leaving EVERYthing shut down for too long. There's some serious risk:benefit analysis that needs to take place, and medical experts aren't the end-all, be-all. "Thanks for saving me from the virus! Unfortunately I died of starvation." (or from some crazy lefty first-time gun owner who doesn't think that background checks and mandatory waiting periods apply to THEM, as they point the gun they're looking to buy at the guy behind the counter, with their finger on the trigger.). Frankly, I'm more worried about the idiots who swamped the gun stores in a sudden re-discovery of the 2nd Amendment.
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Trump in January: We're shutting down travel from China. People like you in January: Trump is a racist xenophobe. Fauci was telling us not to wear masks or change anything we're doing in late February. WHO is following the Chinese Communist Party Line. China refused to let anyone into Wuhan MONTHS ago, when people were concerned about a possible epidemic. They bent the knee to China and continue to do so. China either lied or are IDIOTS making statements about how the virus isn't transmitted person to person.
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robbie G : New York Times sucks. So does CNN.
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Max Powers : Ummmm. Trump's approval ratings are higher than ever.
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@chriscrux4556 : Yup. I became a (somewhat skeptical) Trump-supporter, simply on the basis of the lunatics who freaked when he got elected. And not just the fact that they freaked, but the strategy and tactics employed to take Trump down at any cost. I'm a small 'l' libertarian, myself. And I despair that we will ever find our way to a free society, with limited government.
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@sidesdivide6155 : AND HE TAKES TWO SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM WHILE EVERYONE ELSE JUST GETS ONE! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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@georgeford6056 : That's pretty close to my thinking. Working for the past 4 administrations just tells me the guy should be retired, already. That's why I also think William Barr is just going to string things out and tell everybody "Nothing to see, here!" As if working for Bush means I should trust him!
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@richardsmith1161 : Career bureaucrats are a law unto themselves.
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If you're a politician, the worst thing you can do is take the high road. You have to counterpunch every time somebody takes a swing at you. I think people like you are just upset because Trump is the ONE PERSON in government, today, who uses the same scorn and ridicule that have been leveled at conservatives for decades and he uses it against the left. The left can dish it out, but can't take it. Just like their brownshirt-Antifa proxies.
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robbie G : Yup. Although when the shut-down first occurred, I thought it was an over-reaction, given all the deaths each year to the REGULAR flu (up to 80,000). I still think that the total shutdown is over-reacting. We just need to adapt to social distancing for a while, be smart, and shift to online solutions, where possible, especially in education.
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@erisofterra8986 : Fauci is NOT a man at the top of his game. He was THE expert everybody turned to, and he's gotten it WRONG. All the might of the U.S. Government behind him, with the president's backing, and the sonofabitch was telling us "Nothing to see, here!" Sure, they're on the same side, supposedly, but when your best friend gets you in a bar fight, it's time to part ways.
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@bruno-vicious : This rings at least semi-true. As a libertarian, I'm often in the position of "With friends like these, who needs enemies?" Sometimes, the arguments made on FOX for the so-called 'right' are just as bad as the over-the-top lies and conspiracy theories of the left-establishment media. I'm to the point, now, where if a network's business model is commercials every 5 minutes, they're not worth watching, because they've been sanitized by the advertisers and everything else is just right- or left-wing talking points. I'm just an old-fashioned, limited-government, individual-rights, free-market-capitalism (Adam Smith. Read Wealth of Nations if you haven't, already.) kind of guy, and NOBODY'S ON MY SIDE! Regressive faith-based ideologies on BOTH sides.
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CNN is god-awful. If it weren't for conservative critics of CNN, I wouldn't hear a PEEP out of that network, because I never watch it. You sound pretty level-headed about this.
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Fauci's medical opinions are fine. But he's NOT running public policy. What good is it if he minimizes the deaths directly from the virus, if we all die of starvation or descend into chaos? There's a balance, here, and I'm not just taking a doctor's word, because doctors aren't economists. Trump's seeking that balance between minimizing the medical threat without killing the patient by OTHER means. "We don't want the cure to be worse than the disease." And I'm totally OK with questioning the "infinite wisdom of experts." Let the questions be asked. Listen to what the experts' responses are. Make judgements. The juxtaposition of disparate ideas is what separates us from the totalitarians. Arguing is how we arrive at a better approximation of truth, guided by facts, evidence, and reason. (SJWs need not apply.) I don't think anybody knows the proper balance, for sure. If the supply chain is broken because its members are sick, then we die. If the supply chain is broken because of government force, then we die. If the economy tanks, then all the wealth that the left so desperately want to re-distribute by force won't exist to BE re-distributed. They're always trying to gut the goose that lays the golden egg, because of all the shiny yellow metal they imagine in its belly, just there for the taking, er ah, re-distributing. Personally, I think people just need to be careful, and not cut off their noses to spite their faces. Big crowds? Bad idea. Breathing on baby and grandma? Bad idea. Going to work if your work doesn't require large groups and close contact? Good idea! My job's gone totally online and I haven't missed a beat. Jobs for professional shoppers should be a huge niche, just waiting to be filled. You can be a big tipper to your delivery person, save money, save energy, and reduce the spread of the virus by a factor of at least 2, and maybe 3 or 4, because those professional shoppers can service 2 to 4 orders at the same time. More shopping. Fewer people. Feeding truckers maybe won't be a Truck-Stop thing for a while. Some enterprising person will find a way to fill their bellies and keep them rolling, if we LET IT HAPPEN. All kinds of ways to keep the supply chain going, without unnecessary exposure. Frankly, I think small-scale entrepreneurs would solve the problem faster and with less harm than a MILLION experts in Washington, D.C. Shutting everything down is just stupid. But we probably won't arrive at anything sensible until liberals start running out of groceries and demand that the economy re-start. Until they do, their hysteria will not permit public officials to do what needs to be done, which is mostly NOTHING.
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