The polar opposite of immature ideology. You may find such traits in the very best breeds of workhorses.

Nice straw man you built and then deconstructed. Nothing about meritocracy prevents old white men from being recognized or successful.

"Meritocracy" doesnt exists and very likely never will.

Of course it does, at least in the West. Maybe not a perfect meritocracy, but that is... or rather was, the ideal to strive for.

This is an extreme straw man. Please don't do this.

This is absurd. The cdc failed completely.

Dr Anthony Fauci isn’t head of the CDC, and it’s the White House that has taken control of executive narration, hence why the CDC has so few televised statements these last 2 months.

It’s been a persistent theme that if you looked abroad at media and foreign scientific and government announcements, you’d get a pretty good predictor on what your own government might begin to merely signal as precursor weeks from now.

So people have been trying to form fuzzy pictures based on the disorganized interleaving of ad hoc mayors, governors, business leaders, institutions, all making their little ad hoc decisions.

Google has been plastering CDC stuff all over YouTube. Almost like the CDC made an end run around the TV blockade.

This strikes me as tone deaf at a time when the focus should be on systemic failures and possible improvements, and the millions who will be impacted.

This is a defense in fear of Fauci being let go, given the patterns of the administration in many other areas.

so is that Dr Fauci's fault or the administration's?

I disagree.

I think the administration is so extreme in its extra-constitutional world view that it's actually unethical to work within or support it in any way.

There is no question that Fauci is competent and making the best of a bad situation, but participating in this administration is aiding and abetting it.

Given their willingness to politicize the courts, the justice department, the state department, even the FDA, CDC, and NOAA; not to mention their kangaroo impeachment hearing regarding bribery in Ukraine, it is impossible to justify cooperation, let alone employment.

If more people had done this earlier (most notably the senate), we wouldn't have the loss of life to which we've already consigned ourselves.

He has been director of NIAID for over 30 years and serves the public not any particular administration(s).

How bad does a government have to be before you are morally obligated to step down from a position? Does such a point exist?

I would argue yes, and that the US has passed it.

Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. It just makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That would boil down to "let plenty of people die, at least the administration will look as bad as they are", wouldn't it? I don't think anyone with medical training would subscribe to that.

Why does Fauci resigning mean that? He can create a twitter account, and give the same solid advice he is giving without legitimizing a compromised government.

Please look up the term "democracy".

I don't understand your argument.