I took another look at the "hearing wrap up" press release from meeting that the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held with Dr. Fauci. Very sad performance by the committee.
Given that Dr. Fauci has spent more than half a century devoted to protecting the world's population from infectious diseases, given that he has been credited with saving millions of lives, you might expect that the "Key Hearing Takeaways" listed in the wrap up would help us with questions like: How can we prevent another pandemic? What steps can we take to protect everyone throughout the globe from the next new virus that challenges us? How can we best organize our public health system to work as effectively as possible?
Not a single one of the "takeaways" related to such questions. In addition, in the "Member Highlights" section of the wrap up, not a single member said anything that was forward looking and visionary. Rather they tried to outdo one another with "gotcha" statements and "he said, she said" types of comments about the past.
We need strong, bipartisan leadership that enables us to make government work to promote the health and livelihood of all. We certainly do not have that leadership in place right now.
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