Anthony Fauci and Covid-19

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Yesterday was Tony Fauci’s day in the bullseye in Congressional hearing about  dealing with Covid-19.

This morning, Jeff passed along Paul Krugman’s take on this and other similar issues, and it is worth your time to read.  I’m a subscriber to Krugman.  Here is his column: “Reality is a Communist plot”.

Anthony Fauci, who I really didn’t know much about before Covid-19, was the person needed for the time of crisis.  His demeanor, credentials as a scientist and all gave hope.  Sure, there were occasional wrong calls, but as anyone who’s ever dealt with a crisis knows, you do your best

We all lived through The horrid time of Covid-19.  At the end of the pandemic, February, 2022, I was hospitalized for surgery for Colon cancer, and my roommate was a young man struck down with long Covid.  He was not happy.  He had been an AAU calibre basketball player, but when we were roomies, he could barely walk, and was becoming morbidly obese.

I often think about him, but I can’t stay in contact.  I knew only his first name.

I responded to Jeff’s forward, today, with my own brief comment:

“I only saw pieces of the public execution of Dr. Fauci yesterday, but like you all, I lived through Covid-19 – in fact, I turned 80 May 4, 2020, which executed a planned surprise party (or so I heard).  Birthday dinner [for two] was takeout from Appleby’s….
 
I was in one of first rounds of the new vaccine, and managed to avoid getting Covid-19, etc.  I started my ’sanity drives’ then just to get out of the house a couple of times a day and do a short drive somewhere in the general neighborhood.
 
But I most remember, this morning, the year we got the Salk polio vaccine in Wahpeton ND.  I was a teenager then [1955], and there was no nonsense.  (A college friend who got polio…spent his college years navigating the halls and stairs with crutches – his legs didn’t work.  His upper body was incredibly strong.  Carl died two or three years ago.  His last years he had to endure post-polio.)
 
Hang in there.”

I’ve mentioned before the several on-line columns I subscribe to – well-informed opinion writers.  Paul Krugman is one of them; Heather Cox Richardson@, Joyce Vance, Tim Snyder (with his ten part free series on Hitler and Stalin now in segment three), Robert Reich, Garrison Keillor and, most recent, Heather Delaney Reese (with her own excellent commentary on the issue, today).   These, along with the Minnesota Star Tribune, are my own windows on the world, so to speak, along with occasional others.  Each of these, and others, deserve paid subscriptions.  Nothing worthwhile is ever “free”.
@ – I have found especially interesting Richardsons History Minute, never more than a minute, about various History events and people, narrated by a diversity of individuals.  One of today’s is here.  Check it out.