Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "India’s fight against COVID-19 l ABC News" video.

  1. Dinesh D'Souza told everyone not to wear a mask. This is the result.
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  2.  @antmaster360  True, but there's a key difference: Fauci rescinded his original declaration. Although he wasn't explicit about it at the time, his objective was to prevent a mass panic and a mask shortage so that healthcare workers had first priority. Once the supply was able to meet demand, he reversed course. Dinesh never did anything of the kind, and neither did any other lunatic right-wing pundit.
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  3. You had me in the first half, not gonna lie... Nice to see some Hindu representation in here as well. 👍 🕉
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  4.  @antmaster360  Yeah, it didn't do much for his credibility. But with hindsight, it was probably the right decision at the time. If a severe mask shortage did occur as a result of his recommendation, then we likely would have lost a lot more healthcare workers in the beginning, putting us in a very bad position to fight the pandemic. So he lied about masks not being necessary for the general public, but his intentions were admirable.
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  5.  @antmaster360  This is either a gross misunderstanding, or you're not very bright. I'm opting for the latter. At the beginning there was a shortage of masks of any kind. If the experts recommend the general public starts wearing them right away, immediately there would be an extremely high demand of the top-quality masks (the N95's, as you said). It doesn't matter whether there was an abundance of lower-quality ones, like surgical masks. If there were N95's or similar PPE available, the public would have made every effort to get their hands on it. And as I told you already, the inevitable consequence is that the people who need them the most--namely, the HEALTHCARE workers (NOT "social workers," there's a massive difference)--would be unable to protect themselves, putting them at comparatively higher risk of death (because they work with known COVID patients), and thereby disproportionately impacting the trained professionals early on. And if I didn't spell this out for you clearly enough, this would invariably set us up for failure with respect to our pandemic response, because many who have the necessary expertise to treat COVID patients effectively would either be sick or dead. Try using your brain once in a while.
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  6.  @antmaster360  I think Fauci had good reason to lie. I'll say it for a third time now: If he didn't, people likely would have bought up all the available N95's, because they aren't stupid. They know (well enough of them do, anyway) that the other kinds of face coverings--cloth masks made of T-shirts, neck gaiters, bandanas, surgical masks, whatever--are not as effective at reducing transmission. Most would want to get their hands on medical-grade masks, and if the medical community wasn't well-prepared at the time (they were not), then a shortage would promptly ensue. If you've been watching the news you might remember how bad the PPE shortage for front-line workers was already; if there was high demand from the public in addition to doctors, nurses, etc., it would have been 100 times worse. My mom's a nurse, and just imagine if someone you knew had to show up to work knowing they could get sick and possibly die because they lack the PPE for protection. It's unfathomable, and that's why I think Fauci had to do what he did.
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