The sort of people I respect:
Dr.Fauci, at 74 yo, in 2015-was suiting up to treat an Ebola patient himself because he "wanted to show his staff that he wouldn't ask them to do anything he wouldn't do himself".
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/why-nihs-anthony-fauci-treating-ebola-patients-himself
that's true leadership.
@artemis Indeed.
I have sadly heard some in the LGBTQ community criticize him harshly. I don't know if they are victims of the Trump misinformation campaign or not.
I graduated into the AIDS epidemic. Friends I knew in high school & college died of it.
Fauci was one of the people that listened to the gay community's concerns about being ignored, and helped make available experimental treatments available to those for who did not have the luxury of time to wait.
A good man.
So much confusion w'd be avoided if people w'd only take a bit of time to look at context, to understand actual words and actions, and then, and only then, form an opinion. Sigh...
Words I heard were to the effect of "using gay people as guinea pigs".
Um...no. Younger adults have grown up in a world where AIDS is an unhealthy and expensive inconvenience...but one that you can live with. Key word: Live.
Not 30-40 years ago.It was a fast and cruel death sentence. With no cure or treatment in sight, people were begging to be treated with whatever unproven experimental drugs existed.Odds were against the early drugs, but death in short order was already a given.
Well said.
Context matter. Also, methods to do science changed, including formalizing the ethics principles, transparency, etc.