Where Trump’s rhetoric of the pandemic has been ceaselessly rosy to the point of misleading, Fauci’s has been skeptical and cautious. Before that would happen, things would “have to get really, really bad,” Fauci said. So we want to use public health measures not to get in the way of opening the economy, but to being a safe gateway to opening the economy.”It's not clear what constitutes “really, really bad,” but it is clear that things are getting worse and not better. His addition has led to internal feuding and tension hobbling the team’s response even as the pandemic enters a third wave of new infections. ADBut Atlas, like Trump, advocates a broad resumption of life as normal while encouraging senior citizens to stay home.

Source: Washington Post October 19, 2020 14:02 UTC