Here are two segments from 60 Minutes — one which aired tonight, one done for the web. In these, Dr. Jon LaPook who is a medical correspondent for CBS talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci about you-know-what. Dr. Fauci is so misquoted (sometimes deliberately) and at times suppressed that it ain't a bad idea to hear from the man himself.
Over the last few decades, I've found myself embroiled in a number of arguments — some of them, potentially life-threatening — over whether one should trust mainstream doctors about everything or about nothing. It has always seemed obvious to me that both extremes were very, very wrong and yet many people do not seem willing to find a middle ground.
Me, I allot my trust on a sliding scale. Someone who has a medical degree and has practiced for years gets most of it but not all of it. Someone who has never studied medicine but has read a lot of websites gets a pretty small hunk of it…but neither group gets 100% or 0%. My present physician is very good as are the specialists to whom he sometimes refers me…and even then, I check what they tell me with him. My answer to questions like "When will you stop isolating?" and "Will you take a vaccine?" is "I'll wait until my doctor advises me and if I have any doubt, I'll err on the side of caution."
Yes, I've had friends who listened to doctors and are now dead. I've also had friends who refused to listen to doctors and are now dead. In some cases, it's not clear if the doctors or lack thereof led to the outcomes.
Anyway, here's Doc Fauci. I find him interesting, though I'll be more interested in any books or interviews from him after this thing is over and he no longer has to walk a strict non-political line to retain his position and standing…