This is a pretty good clip. I think you can really pull a couple of items out of here that really underscore how
1) Good people who get into leadership positions have to compromise their message to deal with the moronic part of leadership
2) A lot of leadership is morons.
1) Fauci saying we are out of the pandemic stage. We are all feeling that but the numbers right now are as bad as many time slices of the past 2 years. We are still at 325 deaths daily, which would be double a bad flu year. Cases are actually pretty high for any time that isn't "Omicron peak". I think he's probably in the position where he knows the hospitals aren't completely fubar and is getting decent cooperation from Biden, all the non-idiots are vaccinated and will probably be fine, so just throw in the towel and let those 325 idiots who get unlucky die per day.
2) China lockdowns. That's some serious bad leadership. Even at the beginning we knew it wasn't like the genie could go back in the bottle and we get COVID to zero and it's gone - even the most strict inhumane policy, there would be at least one new patient zero and it would roar back very quickly. If the US had to start over (magically removing our fatigue) - we'd do a lot of things differently, quicker on the masks, lighter hand on outdoor stuff, etc... and probably hit a sweeter spot. But the Chinese are now going into a ridiculous lockdown despite this hindsight, and their leaders are too proud to pull in foreign MRNA vaccines that they have the ability to just jam in everyone's arms because they are a repressive state, but no they are sticking with Sinovac
3) Kamala taking Paxlovid. You can't say follow the science over and over and then not follow the science. "The science" doesn't indicate that she needs Paxlovid. She's taking it anyway because it's a scientifically approved COVID treatment in general, see I'm doing the right thing, sort of a proxy for vaccination, but she's taking it outside of recommended protocol. When you don't follow the actual scientific protocol, it opens the doors for the charlatans because who the hell knows what's really the science.