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by michaelborromeo 2224 days ago
Facts by themselves aren’t political or have an agenda.

The decision to present certain facts, the other facts you compare those to, and the manner in which they are presented, however, invokes agendas and politics.

No matter how much people claim otherwise, doctors presenting facts have agendas. This includes Dr Fauci.

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Is trying to protect as many people as possible an agenda? How about wanting to do one’s best in researching medicine? Or are agendas always sinister?

What’s your area of expertise? If someone asked you to give a talk about your area of expertise, what are some agendas you would choose from?

Or are you making the point that no human is 100% emotionally detached from their work?

If you ask Dr Fauci he’ll say let’s save as many lives as we can. Taken alone no one can argue with that.

His agenda is to save lives. Obvious.

So he will make as strong a case as he can to support the measures to save lives.

If you pay attention to him and only him it makes sense to lockdown until there is a cure or vaccine.

Now tell me, does that make sense for every single person? From age 10 to 100, rich, poor, healthy, sick, for several months or even a year+?

There are costs to Fauci’s agenda which he ignores because that’s not his job but also it doesn’t make sense for him to talk about the costs.

You think of an agenda as a bad thing but it’s not it’s just the thing someone wants to get done.