Fauci: Downplaying Coronavirus Threat Is ‘Not A Good Thing’ | MSNBC

Dr. Anthony Fauci responded to reports that President Trump wanted to play down the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, saying that doing so with any serious threat was "not a good thing." Aired on 09/11/2020.
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Fauci: Downplaying Coronavirus Threat Is 'Not A Good Thing' | MSNBC

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  1. That’s why you told the American people it was just like a flu and face masks were required.
    Come on doctor faucci, what’s your relationship with world health organization?.

    1. @Jay H If I get paid you probably get paid. I can accuse you of that also. I lived in country next to the Soviet Union and I do not want to live in a communist country. Listen to the Cuban man who gave warning to america. A man who escaped Cuba.

    2. @Joel Vasquez The low information people just know how to chant ignorantly with hatred and emotion instead of talk about facts.

      As an independent I notice that democrat news complex only calls trump names, and makes emotional scare tactics. The late night show propagandists who call themselves comedians just throw insults.

      The republican talk show hosts are lawyers mostly that i listen to. They are put in the position to argue the emotional propaganda tactics.

    3. @BBallTV Agreeing with things that are factual doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. You have absolutely missed the mark on so many levels with this comment.

    1. @Emperor Charlemagne what people??
      I am not white or black
      I am not Democrat or Republican so what people do you speak of

    1. @Google User I don’t think we had over 190,000 deaths from H1N1 in the United States. Look it up and get back to me.

    2. @Rex H bill wilson sent a link. Click on it. Maybe you will quit spreading your lies when you read the article. What you fail to understand is everything you say has been proven wrong! Yet you continue the lies! Just like a good little democrat.

    3. Oh look Covid19 taking care of cleaning up the air and our gene pool of selfish people who don’t wear masks to protect others.

  2. Coming from the same man who attended a baseball game around other people while NOT wearing a mask, practice what you preach doc

    1. A second person from Sweden just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. I know this trash doesnt report the news so I’m taking it upon myself. Latinos for Trump!!!A second person from Sweden just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. I know this trash doesnt report the news so I’m taking it upon myself. Latinos for Trump!!!

    2. @Renee H Exactly. Every single one of these politicians AKA overlords keep on telling their peons to wear a mask when they themselves don’t wear one.

  3. Yeah because mass panic is ALWAYS a good thing right??? Remember when you couldn’t buy f’ing toilet paper? Cmon sheep.

    1. @Chris L Dont be so simple-minded, in many countries their leadership spoke the truth about the virus without mass panic. I guess Trump doesnt have the leadership skills to do that.

    2. Sometimes it is healthier to panic to a certain degree than to be deprived of the truth and end up dead because you follow the business as usual strategy.

    3. and your rim got awfully dirty during that rush and you’re still looking for someone to stick it with right?

    4. The mass panickers were majority Trump cultists who were screaming their love for Coward-in-Chief Bone Spurs as they SELFLESSLY stocked up for their large inbred families.

  4. Fauci also said different things than he does now too. I’m old enough to remember when he was opposed to the travel bans

    1. Dr Popper youtube reads from Dr’s you won’t hear from now They use 27% of tests for covid why? because the others might reveal it doesn’t exist -Dr Popper

    1. This emergency will cease on November 10th one week after the election because once Trump is re-elected it won’t have any political value……….

    2. We should sue pharma they are in this because they broke the laws that state they cannot do trials this soon period in groups pro bono Dr Popper reads from Drs you won’t hear from now youtube

  5. “In all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has NEVER been the driver of outbreaks. The driver of outbreaks is ALWAYS a symptomatic person…”

    “An epidemic is not driven by asymptomatic carriers.”

    — Dr. Anthony Fauci

    1. When you know better you do better, once Americans started testing positive without symptoms Dr Fauci told us to put on a mask

    2. Nobody knew all there is to know about COVID-19 when it first arrived. Dr. Fauci’s analysis reflects the consensus of the scientific community. The first reports of asymptomatic spread of the disease were faulty and therefore were discounted. But more and more evidence accumulated and the scientific consensus changed, and Dr. Fauci’s public remarks changed with it.

    3. Jack Komisar – unlike Trump who started off knowing how dangerous it was and telling his suckers to keep working, and when new evidence cam ego mind kept telling his suckers to keep working.

    1. You mean peaceful protest wearing these peaceful protests they burn down multiple buildings. That type of peaceful gathering is legal but praying on the church is not

  6. Fauci is more two faced than Harvey Dents coin, he literally just said on another interview that what the president said was what they spoke about prior to each press brief and that they were in agreement with what to tell the American people. So really this guy is a joke; just like Biden, Fauci says what he needs to say based on who he is talking to and what the political wind says. Stay classy MSNBC and Fauci…..

    1. @TJ
      How many Democrat governors and mayors are on video saying things just like, “Come to Chinatown?” They are, essentially, the “presidents” of their states and cities.

    1. @peacefulheart Nice, that’s the equivalent of “I know you are, but what am I?” We used to use that one on the playground.

  7. “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels

    1. Question to Dr Faucci,

      Both Sweden and Belgium have the same population. While Belgium followed Faucci social distance Sweden didn’t, but Belgium have death double of Sweden.

  8. “You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool some of the people some of the time.” Donald J. Trump

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