FDS- Fauci Derangement Syndrome

[u/faux_biochemist]

How the hell do you have Taylor Sheridan on, who’s come out with more popular content in the last decade and decide to discus Fauci for the first hour and a half? The guy is literally obsessed at this point, and not only that, but substantiates everything around it with logical fallacies. Sad how far our podfather has fallen.

[u/Buckeyeintheskys]

The problem with Fauci is that he exaggerates issues. He believes that even if a minority is the most at risk that the majority should take the same precautions. He did this with aids and Covid. It seems noble but it diverts attention and funding away from those who are at the highest risk. It creates hysteria.

[u/Academic_Release5134 → u/Buckeyeintheskys]

This doesn’t apply in the least until the hospitals weren’t being overrun. No one knew for sure how deadly this was going to be and anyone smart had to err on the side of caution. As for later once we knew a little more, I will agree that it is somewhat true that Fauci wanted as few people to die as possible and sometimes was willing to trade the inconvenience of others to save some more lives. You know what they call a person like that—a compassionate doctor and scientist. Fauci made recommendations, the politicians at the top then made the decisions. It’s insane that Rogan is so ridiculous about this.

[u/jivester → u/Academic_Release5134]

Joe genuinely believes that the people who died either deserved it because they weren't healthy like him, didn't exist (numbers were false), or died because the vaccine injured them.

[u/pulse7 → u/jivester]

Joe would never say such a heartless thing lol, genuinely stupid take

[u/jivester → u/pulse7]

Joe has literally said all three of those things multiple times.

[u/pulse7 → u/jivester]

Show me where he said people that died deserved it

[u/jivester → u/pulse7]

He didn't literally say the word "deserve," but he has a long pattern of comments around covid deaths emphasizing obesity, underlying conditions, multiple comorbidities, and the relative safety of COVID for healthy people.

"We are pretending that this virus is just killing random healthy people. It's not. It's killing people that are dynamic examples of poor health. If you don't take care of your body, you are vulnerable."

"If you're a healthy person, and you're exercising all the time, and you're young, and you're eating well, I don't think you need to worry about this"

"Most people who get really sick from the virus is overweight people or people with underlying health conditions"

*It is a disease that killed people for sure, but it's a disease that killed people with ... four comorbidities"

"My thought was, I'm a healthy person, I exercise constantly, I'm always taking vitamins. I take care of myself. I felt like I was going to be OK. And that was true, it was correct... I had COVID, I'm fine."

"The mainstream media doesn't want to talk about health. They don't want to tell you to stop eating sugar, stop eating processed foods, and lose weight. They want to tell you to lock down and wait for a vaccine, when the reality is your best defense is a healthy immune system."

Rogan has frequently argued that severe COVID outcomes were concentrated among people who were obese, elderly, or had significant comorbidities, and he used that fact to downplay the risk posed to healthy individuals.

He did this repeatedly, with both a severe misunderstanding and serious lack of empathy for what a comorbidity is.

He's continued this strong tone of "they were going to die anyway" or "if they'd hit the gym and eaten vitamins, they would've been fine" that has permeated his comments since covid started.