I see. More made up lies by you. You took an old video where RFK said he supported policies that
encouraged (not mandated) all Americans to get vaccinated and applied that to him mandating the experimental "Operation Warp Speed" vaccine that Donald Trump is still proud of. That simply should RFK Jr. is reasonable and you're not. There are some vaccines, that are actually vaccines and not experimental gene thearpy like Trump's Opearation Warp Speed Poison, that are good to take. The Smallpox vaccine for example has a
95% success rate in preventing sommeone from catching smallpox (and thus transmitting). Because of that, ring vaccination, where only those who are known to have been in contact with an infected person are vaccinated, is an effective strategy for smallpox erradication. Pfizzer was forced that its vaccine wasn't even
tested for that. Nigeria was able to stop a smalllpox outbreak by using ring vaccination.
Now as to RFK Jr. castigating those who "denied the dire warnings of the pandemic" that would include Dr. Fauci and Donald Trump. In
February of 2020, Dr. Fauci was publicly saying COVID would be no worse than the flu (and yet less than a month later
Fauci was saying COVID would be 10 times worse than the flu). Trump was saying the same thing. Later
Trump told Bob Woodward that he "played down" the pandemic because he didn't want people to "panic." But nowhere in your diatribe do you have a single quote where RFK Jr. endorsed lockdowns. Some countries stopped the virus in its tracks without locking down. Taiwan, South Korea and Japan for example. Intelligence from Taiwan was shared with the Trump administration prior to known outbreaks in the U.S. regarding what was going on in China. But Dr. Fauci downplayed everything publicly because he knew his gain of function research, something Obama put the brakes on but was accelerated again under Trump, was the likely culprit. So what could have been done besides lockdowns? Well sufficient testing for one. Using a
pool testing strategy employed by some African countries, every person coming back from overseas could have been tested. The good thing about pool testing is that it alsoo protects privacy. Since all of the samples are put in the same pool, it can't be used for
Chinese DNA collection. In summer of 2020 when I was still Uber driving and coming home every weekend to check on my elderly parents I desparately
wanted a COVID test and couldn't get one. The lack of test kits for a virus that they had advance warning was coming to the U.S. is a
failure on the part of Fauci/Trump. A test has been made available in January 2020, but the Fauci/Trump administration declined to use it. This epic failure is so bad that the article needs to be looked at:
On Saturday Jan. 11 — a month and a half before the first Covid-19 case not linked to travel was diagnosed in the United States — Chinese scientists posted the genome of the mysterious new virus, and within a week virologists in Berlin had produced the first diagnostic test for the disease.
Soon after, researchers in other nations rolled out their own tests, too, sometimes with different genetic targets. By the end of February, the World Health Organization had shipped tests to nearly 60 countries.
The United States was not among them.
Why the United States declined to use the WHO test, even temporarily as a bridge until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could produce its own test, remains a perplexing question and the key to the Trump administration’s failure to provide enough tests to identify the coronavirus infections before they could be passed on, according to POLITICO interviews with dozens of viral-disease experts, former officials and some officials within the administration’s health agencies.
The slowness of the testing regimen — which, administration officials acknowledged this week, is still not producing enough tests to meet the national demand — was the first, and most sweeping, of many failures. So far there have been confirmed cases in at least 23 states, and at least 15 deaths, while the stock market plunged and an otherwise healthy economy braced for a major disruption.
But neither the CDC nor the coronavirus task force chaired by Vice President Mike Pence would say who made the decision to forgo the WHO test and instead begin a protracted process of producing an American test, one that got delayed by manufacturing problems, possible lab contamination and logistical delays.
“Please provide an explanation for why the Covid-19 diagnostic test approved by the World Health Organization was not used,” Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on the Senate health committee, who represents the hard-hit state of Washington, asked in a 3½-page letter on the testing fiasco to Pence, Health Secretary Alex Azar, CDC director Robert Redfield, and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
So far, none has been provided.
So yeah. Fauci/Trump screwed up. I keep saying "Fauci/Trump" because, after lying to Jake Tapper and saying there was "push back" to taking more active measures, Fauci admitted that Trump did everything Fauci asked him to do. That means that if Fauci had said "Let's use the Berlin test kits", Trump would have used the Berlin test kits. When Fauci said "Let's lock down for 14 days to stop the spread", Trump agreed the lockdown would be official U.S. policy. When Fauci said "extend the lockdown", Trump agreed. The first sign Trump gave of any deviation from Fauci was when he declared prayer to be essential and that allowed churches to reopen. Fauci had already
endorsed liquor stores being open as well as
hooking up with strangers on Tinder as long as your "willing to take that risk" (and use a condom and a face diaper?). This is the same person that
warned against having people who weren't "immediate family members" over for Thanksgiving. Anyway, beyond that small deviation, Trump was lock step with Fauci.
Finally you're trying to use past endorsements by RFK Jr. of Hillary Clinton and others who supported vaccine mandates as proof Fauci supported vaccine mandates? Have you forgotten that Trump endorsed Hillary and donated to her?
Anyway, THAT is how you actually give evidence for a position. Not the bullshyt shotgun approach of posting a bunch of misleading facts that don't actually support your claim. Recap, old clips of RFK Jr. saying he supported vaccines
in general (not Trump's mRNA Operation Warp Speed garbage), and policies that
encourage as opposed to
mandate Americans take
proven (not experimental) vaccines do not show RFK Jr. supported OWS vaccine mandates. And RFK Jr
rightfully criticizing Fauci/Trump downplaying the virus when they
knew it was worse than what they were saying and they did not take
reasonable steps to stop the spread like using already available test kits from Berlin does not mean an endorsement of Fauci/Trump's ineffective lockdown strategy. I don't expect you to agree. You are the person who makes excuses from Trump on such inexecusible acts as endorsing red flag laws and doing bumpfire stock bans so I don't expect you to be reasonable on Trump horrible legacy of Operation Warp Speed, draconian lockdowns, downplaying a virus to prevent a "panic", and not using aleady available test kits. But the exercise is useful for when I have further discussions with reasonable people.