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Originally Posted by SolidSnake84
I think his prediction of a million deaths was based on if we didn't mitigate at all.
But now going back and re-reading some stuff he has said, perhaps i have confused his million deaths over him stating there would be millions of cases.
I could have almost swore i heard at one of the briefings him say that it would be one million deaths, although i really think he was talking about from the time we first realized the virus, to when it was effectively "over" with the advent of therapies and a vaccine....
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Dr. Fauci has consistently said that the virus sets the agenda and timetable, not politicians or even scientists. You can pick on specific things he may (or may not) have said, but scientists are asked to give best educated guesses. Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong. The low end of a death toll from this virus with dedicated mitigation actions by the populace has been 100,000 for a very long time.
And I, for one, choose to listen to scientists rather than politicians and amateurs that have an ax to grind.