Response: I thought I read they had a tax-exempt status as well. I better check on that one. Thanks for the heads up.

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Only in America.\n\nFirst of all, I will admit that the grenades were inert, so my apologies to anyone suffering PTSD resulting from the violence of Jan. 6.\n\nRest assured that no congressmen were hurt in the giving of this \"gift.\"\n\nBack to gunpowder damaging your brain.\n\nApparently, it is a tradition for new Republican members of the House to gift items from their home states to their fellow Republican legislators.\n\nFlorida. Hmmm ... what would you have gifted your fellow party members? Citrus fruit? Disney tee shirts? Key lime pies?\n\nWho in their right mind would think that grenades are the perfect gift from Florida?\n\nAccording to the letter accompanying the grenades, they were manufactured in Florida (who knew?) and were developed during the Vietnam war.\n\nOh, so he is giving them reminders of a war that we lost?\n\nThese grenades are not meant to be thrown by hand like in Hollywood movies. They are made to be launched by the MK 19 grenade launcher.\n\nSo he gave them the ammo without the gun? Is that anything like giving people mags from ARs but not the ARs?\n\nAnd about that \"coming together,\" Cory, sweetheart, grenades blow things apart. They don't bring them together. That's the purpose of grenades.\n\nThis guy is supposed to be an Army vet. You would think that he would know shit like that.\n\nObviously, he inhaled way too much gunpowder during his army days.\n\nThink being gifted a grenade is horrifying?\n\nHow about child-sized AR-15s? Yup, you too can now buy your son or daughter their very own child-sized battlefield weapon. Ya know, to use until they grow into the adult-sized ones.\n\nWell, much like the inert grenades, these guns are actually .22s but they look exactly like a scaled-down AR-15.\n\nThe manufacturer, WEE 1 Tactical, advertises the gun, called the JR-15 (get it?) as \"an ideal weapon to 'teach a younger enthusiast.'\"\n\nI call it an ideal way to get your child killed.\n\nMy biggest worry is trigger-happy police officers. Whenever they see a \"suspect\" with anything that even vaguely resembles a gun, they shoot first and ask questions later.\n\nChildren, holding toy guns, have been killed by the police. Police officers don't bother asking the child if the weapon they are holding is a toy gun or a real gun. They just (say it with me) shoot first and ask questions later.\n\nNow imagine the police being notified by a busybody neighbor that little Johnnie is running around his backyard and firing an AR-15. Do you honestly think that the responding officers are going to stop and check to see if Johnny is holding a JR-15 or an AR-15?\n\nNope, they will just fire every round they have to protect themselves from a perceived battlefield weapon.\n\nWhat kind of a parent buys their child something that will paint a target on their backs (and fronts)?\n\nFortunately, seven senators, including the normally milquetoast Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate \"the marketing of highly lethal firearms, including assault-style rifles, to impressionable young people.\"\n\nWee 1's response?\n\n\"It's a misnomer that this product is being targeted and advertised to children. Children can't buy it.\"\n\nReally?\n\nChildren can't buy the toys advertised on TV either and yet toy manufacturers spend millions marketing toys to children, not their parents. You never see any commercials for Barbies during Sunday Night Football, only during PAW Patrol.\n\nThe only way that I can explain why anyone would think that manufacturing child-size weapons of war and any parent who would actually buy a child-size weapon of war, is that they have all inhaled way too much gunpowder.\n\nYa know, every time I think that this whole \"everybody needs an arsenal to protect themselves\" thing can't possibly get any worse, it does.\n\nAnd why is it that no one in the heavily armed parts of the country can see how insane this all is?\n\nMust be the gunpowder. 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Does it matter what size the bullet is? Will firing it point blank at another child (or your mom when you're really pissed) keep them from injury? \nThis is just one more notch on the tax-exempt gun manufacturers belt. Children were already killing children prior to this new and improved assault weapon's debut. Now it'll just make it a little easier, and the injuries and deaths a little greater. But the kiddies will be proud to own an assault weapon just like mom and dad, and schools will be investing a great deal more money in bulletproof windows to keep those wee ones safe. Corporate America salutes them all.", "metadata": {"counts": {"id": "1668097bd886", "title": "I guess there are no laws against child-size assault rifles, so they need to sell a few million…", "subtitle": "", "author": "8b257772d976", "publication_id": "*Self-Published*", "published_at": "2023-01-31 23:49:27", "last_modified_at": "2023-01-31 23:49:27", "boosted_at": "", "tags": [], "topics": [], "claps": 2, "voters": 1, "reads": 0, "views": 14, "word_count": 148, "responses_count": 2, "reading_time": 0.5584905660377358, "url": "https://medium.com/@kconnor2019/i-guess-there-are-no-laws-against-child-size-assault-rifles-so-they-need-to-sell-a-few-million-1668097bd886", "unique_slug": "i-guess-there-are-no-laws-against-child-size-assault-rifles-so-they-need-to-sell-a-few-million-1668097bd886", "image_url": "", "lang": "en", "is_series": false, "is_locked": false, "is_shortform": true, "top_highlight": ""}, "assets": {"other_embeds": {}}, "fans": {"id": "1668097bd886", "voters": ["f7fb5578b15e"], "count": 1}, "responses": {"id": "1668097bd886", "responses": ["8fc734383e6e", "275d288be7eb"], "count": 2}}}, {"role": "ea7d486472f1", "content": "I don't think gun manufacturers are tax exempt. They are exempt from being sued so they can't be held accountable for the injuries and deaths caused by their products.", "metadata": {"counts": {"id": "8fc734383e6e", "title": "I don't think gun manufacturers are tax exempt.", "subtitle": "", "author": "ea7d486472f1", "publication_id": "*Self-Published*", "published_at": "2023-02-01 21:12:21", "last_modified_at": "2023-02-01 21:12:21", "boosted_at": "", "tags": [], "topics": [], "claps": 10, "voters": 1, "reads": 0, "views": 4, "word_count": 29, "responses_count": 2, "reading_time": 0.10943396226415095, "url": "https://carenawhite.medium.com/i-dont-think-gun-manufacturers-are-tax-exempt-8fc734383e6e", "unique_slug": "i-dont-think-gun-manufacturers-are-tax-exempt-8fc734383e6e", "image_url": "", "lang": "en", "is_series": false, "is_locked": false, "is_shortform": true, "top_highlight": ""}, "assets": {"other_embeds": {}}, "fans": {"id": "8fc734383e6e", "voters": ["8b257772d976"], "count": 1}, "responses": {"id": "8fc734383e6e", "responses": ["d5c786a9938a", "a5e919df30a3"], "count": 2}}}]


Response: I don't think any of us need weapons of war unless we're soldiers. The fact they're selling similar weapons to parents so they can give them to their children is positively chilling. It seems like they're trying to form a Christian army to fight the rest of us who are happy with a secular country.

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Only in America.\n\nFirst of all, I will admit that the grenades were inert, so my apologies to anyone suffering PTSD resulting from the violence of Jan. 6.\n\nRest assured that no congressmen were hurt in the giving of this \"gift.\"\n\nBack to gunpowder damaging your brain.\n\nApparently, it is a tradition for new Republican members of the House to gift items from their home states to their fellow Republican legislators.\n\nFlorida. Hmmm ... what would you have gifted your fellow party members? Citrus fruit? Disney tee shirts? Key lime pies?\n\nWho in their right mind would think that grenades are the perfect gift from Florida?\n\nAccording to the letter accompanying the grenades, they were manufactured in Florida (who knew?) and were developed during the Vietnam war.\n\nOh, so he is giving them reminders of a war that we lost?\n\nThese grenades are not meant to be thrown by hand like in Hollywood movies. They are made to be launched by the MK 19 grenade launcher.\n\nSo he gave them the ammo without the gun? Is that anything like giving people mags from ARs but not the ARs?\n\nAnd about that \"coming together,\" Cory, sweetheart, grenades blow things apart. They don't bring them together. That's the purpose of grenades.\n\nThis guy is supposed to be an Army vet. You would think that he would know shit like that.\n\nObviously, he inhaled way too much gunpowder during his army days.\n\nThink being gifted a grenade is horrifying?\n\nHow about child-sized AR-15s? Yup, you too can now buy your son or daughter their very own child-sized battlefield weapon. Ya know, to use until they grow into the adult-sized ones.\n\nWell, much like the inert grenades, these guns are actually .22s but they look exactly like a scaled-down AR-15.\n\nThe manufacturer, WEE 1 Tactical, advertises the gun, called the JR-15 (get it?) as \"an ideal weapon to 'teach a younger enthusiast.'\"\n\nI call it an ideal way to get your child killed.\n\nMy biggest worry is trigger-happy police officers. Whenever they see a \"suspect\" with anything that even vaguely resembles a gun, they shoot first and ask questions later.\n\nChildren, holding toy guns, have been killed by the police. Police officers don't bother asking the child if the weapon they are holding is a toy gun or a real gun. They just (say it with me) shoot first and ask questions later.\n\nNow imagine the police being notified by a busybody neighbor that little Johnnie is running around his backyard and firing an AR-15. 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Response:
They ARE forming an army. Secularism scares them and threatens to change the world in ways they cannot accept. There is a right way to live and a wrong way to live, they believe, and their pastors and politicians see to it that the fear never lets up. A daily diet of fear keeps their households well stocked with guns, and gets them into church every Sunday. Check out my profile page for something I just posted there on this subject.
And thanks for reading, Frida.

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Only in America.\n\nFirst of all, I will admit that the grenades were inert, so my apologies to anyone suffering PTSD resulting from the violence of Jan. 6.\n\nRest assured that no congressmen were hurt in the giving of this \"gift.\"\n\nBack to gunpowder damaging your brain.\n\nApparently, it is a tradition for new Republican members of the House to gift items from their home states to their fellow Republican legislators.\n\nFlorida. Hmmm ... what would you have gifted your fellow party members? Citrus fruit? Disney tee shirts? Key lime pies?\n\nWho in their right mind would think that grenades are the perfect gift from Florida?\n\nAccording to the letter accompanying the grenades, they were manufactured in Florida (who knew?) and were developed during the Vietnam war.\n\nOh, so he is giving them reminders of a war that we lost?\n\nThese grenades are not meant to be thrown by hand like in Hollywood movies. They are made to be launched by the MK 19 grenade launcher.\n\nSo he gave them the ammo without the gun? Is that anything like giving people mags from ARs but not the ARs?\n\nAnd about that \"coming together,\" Cory, sweetheart, grenades blow things apart. They don't bring them together. That's the purpose of grenades.\n\nThis guy is supposed to be an Army vet. You would think that he would know shit like that.\n\nObviously, he inhaled way too much gunpowder during his army days.\n\nThink being gifted a grenade is horrifying?\n\nHow about child-sized AR-15s? Yup, you too can now buy your son or daughter their very own child-sized battlefield weapon. Ya know, to use until they grow into the adult-sized ones.\n\nWell, much like the inert grenades, these guns are actually .22s but they look exactly like a scaled-down AR-15.\n\nThe manufacturer, WEE 1 Tactical, advertises the gun, called the JR-15 (get it?) as \"an ideal weapon to 'teach a younger enthusiast.'\"\n\nI call it an ideal way to get your child killed.\n\nMy biggest worry is trigger-happy police officers. Whenever they see a \"suspect\" with anything that even vaguely resembles a gun, they shoot first and ask questions later.\n\nChildren, holding toy guns, have been killed by the police. Police officers don't bother asking the child if the weapon they are holding is a toy gun or a real gun. They just (say it with me) shoot first and ask questions later.\n\nNow imagine the police being notified by a busybody neighbor that little Johnnie is running around his backyard and firing an AR-15. Do you honestly think that the responding officers are going to stop and check to see if Johnny is holding a JR-15 or an AR-15?\n\nNope, they will just fire every round they have to protect themselves from a perceived battlefield weapon.\n\nWhat kind of a parent buys their child something that will paint a target on their backs (and fronts)?\n\nFortunately, seven senators, including the normally milquetoast Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate \"the marketing of highly lethal firearms, including assault-style rifles, to impressionable young people.\"\n\nWee 1's response?\n\n\"It's a misnomer that this product is being targeted and advertised to children. Children can't buy it.\"\n\nReally?\n\nChildren can't buy the toys advertised on TV either and yet toy manufacturers spend millions marketing toys to children, not their parents. You never see any commercials for Barbies during Sunday Night Football, only during PAW Patrol.\n\nThe only way that I can explain why anyone would think that manufacturing child-size weapons of war and any parent who would actually buy a child-size weapon of war, is that they have all inhaled way too much gunpowder.\n\nYa know, every time I think that this whole \"everybody needs an arsenal to protect themselves\" thing can't possibly get any worse, it does.\n\nAnd why is it that no one in the heavily armed parts of the country can see how insane this all is?\n\nMust be the gunpowder. 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Does it matter what size the bullet is? Will firing it point blank at another child (or your mom when you're really pissed) keep them from injury? \nThis is just one more notch on the tax-exempt gun manufacturers belt. Children were already killing children prior to this new and improved assault weapon's debut. Now it'll just make it a little easier, and the injuries and deaths a little greater. But the kiddies will be proud to own an assault weapon just like mom and dad, and schools will be investing a great deal more money in bulletproof windows to keep those wee ones safe. Corporate America salutes them all.", "metadata": {"counts": {"id": "1668097bd886", "title": "I guess there are no laws against child-size assault rifles, so they need to sell a few million…", "subtitle": "", "author": "8b257772d976", "publication_id": "*Self-Published*", "published_at": "2023-01-31 23:49:27", "last_modified_at": "2023-01-31 23:49:27", "boosted_at": "", "tags": [], "topics": [], "claps": 2, "voters": 1, "reads": 0, "views": 14, "word_count": 148, "responses_count": 2, "reading_time": 0.5584905660377358, "url": "https://medium.com/@kconnor2019/i-guess-there-are-no-laws-against-child-size-assault-rifles-so-they-need-to-sell-a-few-million-1668097bd886", "unique_slug": "i-guess-there-are-no-laws-against-child-size-assault-rifles-so-they-need-to-sell-a-few-million-1668097bd886", "image_url": "", "lang": "en", "is_series": false, "is_locked": false, "is_shortform": true, "top_highlight": ""}, "assets": {"other_embeds": {}}, "fans": {"id": "1668097bd886", "voters": ["f7fb5578b15e"], "count": 1}, "responses": {"id": "1668097bd886", "responses": ["8fc734383e6e", "275d288be7eb"], "count": 2}}}, {"role": "f7fb5578b15e", "content": "I don't think any of us need weapons of war unless we're soldiers. The fact they're selling similar weapons to parents so they can give them to their children is positively chilling. It seems like they're trying to form a Christian army to fight the rest of us who are happy with a secular country.", "metadata": {"counts": {"id": "275d288be7eb", "title": "I don't think any of us need weapons of war unless we're soldiers.", "subtitle": "", "author": "f7fb5578b15e", "publication_id": "*Self-Published*", "published_at": "2023-02-01 14:11:02", "last_modified_at": "2023-02-01 14:11:02", "boosted_at": "", "tags": [], "topics": [], "claps": 20, "voters": 2, "reads": 0, "views": 3, "word_count": 55, "responses_count": 1, "reading_time": 0.20754716981132076, "url": "https://medium.com/@FridaBayer/i-dont-think-any-of-us-need-weapons-of-war-unless-we-re-soldiers-275d288be7eb", "unique_slug": "i-dont-think-any-of-us-need-weapons-of-war-unless-we-re-soldiers-275d288be7eb", "image_url": "", "lang": "en", "is_series": false, "is_locked": false, "is_shortform": true, "top_highlight": ""}, "assets": {"other_embeds": {}}, "fans": {"id": "275d288be7eb", "voters": ["ea7d486472f1", "8b257772d976"], "count": 2}, "responses": {"id": "275d288be7eb", "responses": ["45cf54eba71e"], "count": 1}}}]


Response: Super impressive take, awesome writing!

Prompt: [{"role": "c0080959b615", "content": "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Peerless Public Servant and Pandemic Guide Steps Down\n\nTwenty-fifth in an ongoing series, Notes from a Plague-Time\n\nHow fortunate America was to have, in its gravest public health crisis in a century, a guide of the skill and stature of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.\n\nServing since 1984 as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci led research teams aimed at preventing, diagnosing, and treating age-old infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as emerging ones such as Ebola, Zika, Sars, and HIV/AIDS. Over his long federal career, Dr. Fauci served as medical advisor to seven U.S. Presidents.\n\nWhen COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 - the gravest public health crisis since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide - Dr. Fauci was perfectly poised to lead us, like Virgil did Dante through the Inferno, to higher ground.\n\nBut while it was America's good fortune to have Dr. Fauci step up as our guide in such a fearful time, it was Dr. Fauci's bad fortune to step up - as chief medical advisor to the President - to a \"President\" (Donald J. Trump) who was a narcissist of the first order and a certified liar (see: The Washington Post's tabulator). By definition, a narcissist lacks any feeling for the public, and a lying narcissist is even worse in a life-or-death crisis - he is pure havoc. The collision between the Pre-Eminent Public Servant and the Chaos of Ego must have become, for Dr. Fauci, his own Inferno.\n\nWhich is why, in inaugurating my series \"Notes from a Plague-Time,\" I titled my first post \"In a Plague-Time, We Need Truth and Experts.\" It did not take a genius to foresee both the vital need for truth and expertise in a breaking life-or-death crisis, as well as the coming conflict between the lead players.\n\nAs expected for a public health official, Dr. Fauci quickly became the public face of the fight against this new virus - the coronavirus - which, because so little was known about it and because it seemed so lethal, struck fear, even panic, in much of the general public. Endeavoring to adhere to the science while also giving confidence, Dr. Fauci accurately termed the virus \"dynamic,\" one constantly changing, thus being studied as the pandemic unfolded; indeed, soon we saw viral variants. Until a vaccine was formulated, Dr. Fauci urged the common-sense precautions of masking and sanitizing. For his reality-based professionalism, Dr. Fauci became a saint in many households (including ours).\n\nAt the same time, proving political ideology is as pathological as any virus and acting on a long-term anti-science bias, Republicans soon targeted Dr. Fauci himself, vilifying him for allegedly crashing the economy and hurting America's children with mandated lockdowns of businesses and schools. Accused of \"flip-flopping,\" Dr. Fauci was simply \"following the science\" - following a \"dynamic\" virus wherever it went, which is what a good scientist does. Thus the public face of the COVID fight became a bull'e eye, a ready-made one. Trump, that medical genius, called Dr. Fauci \"a disaster.\"\n\nJumping further down the rabbit-hole of absurdity, masks were soon reviled, by GOP politicians and their followers, as an affront to personal liberty(!). Same for the vaccines, once they came online: These miracles of modern medicine, created in record time, were, according to the increasingly rabid Republicans, yet another affront to personal liberty(!). They even turned \"Fauci\" into a pejorative term: \"Don't Fauci my Florida.\" Elon Musk, that corporate disaster, tweeted \"Prosecute Fauci.\"\n\nBeyond absurd, this inflamed \"thinking\" is flat-out criminal: How many of the 1.1 million American lives lost to date to COVID-19 - count the zeroes: 1,100, 000 American lives - were needlessly lost, tragically so, sacrificed to political ideology and a lethal know-nothingism? On the other hand, while it is impossible to quantify, it can be justifiably claimed that Dr. Fauci's guidance saved countless millions more.\n\nBereft of moral sympathy, Republican pols strutted around practicing medicine without a license. One Republican who does have such a license - Rand Paul of Kentucky is an ophthalmologist - repeatedly lit into Dr. Fauci in Senate hearings with such twisted viciousness that, at one, the usually unflappable Dr. Fauci noted the senator's allegations \"kindled the crazies,\" resulting in death threats against him and his family(!). For shame.\n\nAnd, now, with the U.S. House of Representatives back in GOP control following the November midterms, Republicans threaten to investigate this peerless public servant? More shame.\n\nTrained in virology, Dr. Fauci understands contagion of the viral sort. Presumably, as a public health official, he also understands political contagion: the sort infecting ambitious types in their quest to climb the greasy pole for power. It is a sickening sight, and it must have sickened the good doctor, too. In his final interview with \"PBS NewsHour,\" Dr. Fauci expressed disappointment that the American public, so divided, could not see the COVID-19 pandemic as a galvanizing event, like World War II, that brought a disparate people together, as one, to fight for their mutual salvation. The good doctor no doubt feels he failed in his galvanizing role. I hope in his forthcoming memoir Dr. Fauci diagnoses our ideological disease and also prescribes treatment.\n\n\"No good deed goes unpunished\": The French with this proverb reveal their insight into human nature at its worst. Dr. Fauci took the worst. But, to his everlasting credit, he persevered in advocating for his patient - the American public - and steadfastly adhered to the science. I often wondered as Dr. Fauci hammered yet again at his message, what the constant repetition of his good advice, and the constant disputing of it, was doing to the wielder of the hammer himself, though this Stoic will not likely get lyrical about his pain. In his valedictory rounds before his official retirement in December upon leaving a half-century of public service, Dr. Fauci's parting advice, to future scientists as well as the public, remained simply: Follow the science.\n\nMeanwhile, Americans, so caught up in advocating for their own personal liberty, might do a rethink and consider, like Dr. Fauci, advocating for the commonweal, for the American public as a whole. Therein, as this viral pandemic recedes, lies our ethical recovery.\n\nI among millions thank Heaven that America had Anthony Stephen Fauci as its guide in this historic pandemic. Just remember how terrified we all were at the outset of this pandemic - was this another bubonic plague? - and how Dr. Fauci's steadying influence quelled that terror. 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Fauci did a premier job on handling the pandemic. Early on his only error was not advocating for universal use of masks soon enough. He did an excellent job at supporting the rapid development of the Covid RNA vaccine, He strongly pushed for controls and measures that if they had been followed by Trump and his administration 500,000 lives would have been saved. The problem was not Fauci it was the extreme right that advocated against taking the vaccine and for not following the basic CDC recommended Covid guidelines. This is why those 500,000 should not have died.

In response to the totally absurd comments below. The Swedish apporach (2,274 Covid deaths/million population) was an utter failure when compared to other Scandinavian countries such as Norway (928 Covid deaths/million). I have a relative who was a phusicisn on the front lines in Sweden and she would be the frist to say the Swedish approach to Covid was a fiasco and an embarraament. Fauci should not be improisoned he should be given accolades for his efforts. Mike Mar let us compare US (3384 Covid Deaths/million population) to Canada (1,312 deaths/million). Sadly Mike stats do not lie. The US failed on its Covid response not because of Fauci but because we as a nation failed to follow his plan and the guideliens of the CDC. That is the reality. Thanks Carla for writing this article. For someone that worked on Covid 19 and ran mathematical models on this pandemic this was well done. I do wish that a non-partisan presidential commission would be established to investigate how we as a country responded to this pandemic and how we should prepare for the next one. I guarantee you another one will come probably sooner than we think!

Prompt: [{"role": "c0080959b615", "content": "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Peerless Public Servant and Pandemic Guide Steps Down\n\nTwenty-fifth in an ongoing series, Notes from a Plague-Time\n\nHow fortunate America was to have, in its gravest public health crisis in a century, a guide of the skill and stature of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.\n\nServing since 1984 as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci led research teams aimed at preventing, diagnosing, and treating age-old infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as emerging ones such as Ebola, Zika, Sars, and HIV/AIDS. Over his long federal career, Dr. Fauci served as medical advisor to seven U.S. Presidents.\n\nWhen COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 - the gravest public health crisis since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide - Dr. Fauci was perfectly poised to lead us, like Virgil did Dante through the Inferno, to higher ground.\n\nBut while it was America's good fortune to have Dr. Fauci step up as our guide in such a fearful time, it was Dr. Fauci's bad fortune to step up - as chief medical advisor to the President - to a \"President\" (Donald J. Trump) who was a narcissist of the first order and a certified liar (see: The Washington Post's tabulator). By definition, a narcissist lacks any feeling for the public, and a lying narcissist is even worse in a life-or-death crisis - he is pure havoc. The collision between the Pre-Eminent Public Servant and the Chaos of Ego must have become, for Dr. Fauci, his own Inferno.\n\nWhich is why, in inaugurating my series \"Notes from a Plague-Time,\" I titled my first post \"In a Plague-Time, We Need Truth and Experts.\" It did not take a genius to foresee both the vital need for truth and expertise in a breaking life-or-death crisis, as well as the coming conflict between the lead players.\n\nAs expected for a public health official, Dr. Fauci quickly became the public face of the fight against this new virus - the coronavirus - which, because so little was known about it and because it seemed so lethal, struck fear, even panic, in much of the general public. Endeavoring to adhere to the science while also giving confidence, Dr. Fauci accurately termed the virus \"dynamic,\" one constantly changing, thus being studied as the pandemic unfolded; indeed, soon we saw viral variants. Until a vaccine was formulated, Dr. Fauci urged the common-sense precautions of masking and sanitizing. For his reality-based professionalism, Dr. Fauci became a saint in many households (including ours).\n\nAt the same time, proving political ideology is as pathological as any virus and acting on a long-term anti-science bias, Republicans soon targeted Dr. Fauci himself, vilifying him for allegedly crashing the economy and hurting America's children with mandated lockdowns of businesses and schools. Accused of \"flip-flopping,\" Dr. Fauci was simply \"following the science\" - following a \"dynamic\" virus wherever it went, which is what a good scientist does. Thus the public face of the COVID fight became a bull'e eye, a ready-made one. Trump, that medical genius, called Dr. Fauci \"a disaster.\"\n\nJumping further down the rabbit-hole of absurdity, masks were soon reviled, by GOP politicians and their followers, as an affront to personal liberty(!). Same for the vaccines, once they came online: These miracles of modern medicine, created in record time, were, according to the increasingly rabid Republicans, yet another affront to personal liberty(!). They even turned \"Fauci\" into a pejorative term: \"Don't Fauci my Florida.\" Elon Musk, that corporate disaster, tweeted \"Prosecute Fauci.\"\n\nBeyond absurd, this inflamed \"thinking\" is flat-out criminal: How many of the 1.1 million American lives lost to date to COVID-19 - count the zeroes: 1,100, 000 American lives - were needlessly lost, tragically so, sacrificed to political ideology and a lethal know-nothingism? On the other hand, while it is impossible to quantify, it can be justifiably claimed that Dr. Fauci's guidance saved countless millions more.\n\nBereft of moral sympathy, Republican pols strutted around practicing medicine without a license. One Republican who does have such a license - Rand Paul of Kentucky is an ophthalmologist - repeatedly lit into Dr. Fauci in Senate hearings with such twisted viciousness that, at one, the usually unflappable Dr. Fauci noted the senator's allegations \"kindled the crazies,\" resulting in death threats against him and his family(!). For shame.\n\nAnd, now, with the U.S. House of Representatives back in GOP control following the November midterms, Republicans threaten to investigate this peerless public servant? More shame.\n\nTrained in virology, Dr. Fauci understands contagion of the viral sort. Presumably, as a public health official, he also understands political contagion: the sort infecting ambitious types in their quest to climb the greasy pole for power. It is a sickening sight, and it must have sickened the good doctor, too. In his final interview with \"PBS NewsHour,\" Dr. Fauci expressed disappointment that the American public, so divided, could not see the COVID-19 pandemic as a galvanizing event, like World War II, that brought a disparate people together, as one, to fight for their mutual salvation. The good doctor no doubt feels he failed in his galvanizing role. I hope in his forthcoming memoir Dr. Fauci diagnoses our ideological disease and also prescribes treatment.\n\n\"No good deed goes unpunished\": The French with this proverb reveal their insight into human nature at its worst. Dr. Fauci took the worst. But, to his everlasting credit, he persevered in advocating for his patient - the American public - and steadfastly adhered to the science. I often wondered as Dr. Fauci hammered yet again at his message, what the constant repetition of his good advice, and the constant disputing of it, was doing to the wielder of the hammer himself, though this Stoic will not likely get lyrical about his pain. In his valedictory rounds before his official retirement in December upon leaving a half-century of public service, Dr. Fauci's parting advice, to future scientists as well as the public, remained simply: Follow the science.\n\nMeanwhile, Americans, so caught up in advocating for their own personal liberty, might do a rethink and consider, like Dr. Fauci, advocating for the commonweal, for the American public as a whole. Therein, as this viral pandemic recedes, lies our ethical recovery.\n\nI among millions thank Heaven that America had Anthony Stephen Fauci as its guide in this historic pandemic. 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Response: The F'n embarrassment is that he lied to everyone about what he actually did not know. This scumbag received a hefty F'n check from Pharma, he pulled a Trump on everyone. Probably worse than Trump, Fauci took.

Prompt: [{"role": "c0080959b615", "content": "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Peerless Public Servant and Pandemic Guide Steps Down\n\nTwenty-fifth in an ongoing series, Notes from a Plague-Time\n\nHow fortunate America was to have, in its gravest public health crisis in a century, a guide of the skill and stature of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.\n\nServing since 1984 as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci led research teams aimed at preventing, diagnosing, and treating age-old infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as emerging ones such as Ebola, Zika, Sars, and HIV/AIDS. Over his long federal career, Dr. Fauci served as medical advisor to seven U.S. Presidents.\n\nWhen COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 - the gravest public health crisis since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide - Dr. Fauci was perfectly poised to lead us, like Virgil did Dante through the Inferno, to higher ground.\n\nBut while it was America's good fortune to have Dr. Fauci step up as our guide in such a fearful time, it was Dr. Fauci's bad fortune to step up - as chief medical advisor to the President - to a \"President\" (Donald J. Trump) who was a narcissist of the first order and a certified liar (see: The Washington Post's tabulator). By definition, a narcissist lacks any feeling for the public, and a lying narcissist is even worse in a life-or-death crisis - he is pure havoc. The collision between the Pre-Eminent Public Servant and the Chaos of Ego must have become, for Dr. Fauci, his own Inferno.\n\nWhich is why, in inaugurating my series \"Notes from a Plague-Time,\" I titled my first post \"In a Plague-Time, We Need Truth and Experts.\" It did not take a genius to foresee both the vital need for truth and expertise in a breaking life-or-death crisis, as well as the coming conflict between the lead players.\n\nAs expected for a public health official, Dr. Fauci quickly became the public face of the fight against this new virus - the coronavirus - which, because so little was known about it and because it seemed so lethal, struck fear, even panic, in much of the general public. Endeavoring to adhere to the science while also giving confidence, Dr. Fauci accurately termed the virus \"dynamic,\" one constantly changing, thus being studied as the pandemic unfolded; indeed, soon we saw viral variants. Until a vaccine was formulated, Dr. Fauci urged the common-sense precautions of masking and sanitizing. For his reality-based professionalism, Dr. Fauci became a saint in many households (including ours).\n\nAt the same time, proving political ideology is as pathological as any virus and acting on a long-term anti-science bias, Republicans soon targeted Dr. Fauci himself, vilifying him for allegedly crashing the economy and hurting America's children with mandated lockdowns of businesses and schools. Accused of \"flip-flopping,\" Dr. Fauci was simply \"following the science\" - following a \"dynamic\" virus wherever it went, which is what a good scientist does. Thus the public face of the COVID fight became a bull'e eye, a ready-made one. Trump, that medical genius, called Dr. Fauci \"a disaster.\"\n\nJumping further down the rabbit-hole of absurdity, masks were soon reviled, by GOP politicians and their followers, as an affront to personal liberty(!). Same for the vaccines, once they came online: These miracles of modern medicine, created in record time, were, according to the increasingly rabid Republicans, yet another affront to personal liberty(!). They even turned \"Fauci\" into a pejorative term: \"Don't Fauci my Florida.\" Elon Musk, that corporate disaster, tweeted \"Prosecute Fauci.\"\n\nBeyond absurd, this inflamed \"thinking\" is flat-out criminal: How many of the 1.1 million American lives lost to date to COVID-19 - count the zeroes: 1,100, 000 American lives - were needlessly lost, tragically so, sacrificed to political ideology and a lethal know-nothingism? On the other hand, while it is impossible to quantify, it can be justifiably claimed that Dr. Fauci's guidance saved countless millions more.\n\nBereft of moral sympathy, Republican pols strutted around practicing medicine without a license. One Republican who does have such a license - Rand Paul of Kentucky is an ophthalmologist - repeatedly lit into Dr. Fauci in Senate hearings with such twisted viciousness that, at one, the usually unflappable Dr. Fauci noted the senator's allegations \"kindled the crazies,\" resulting in death threats against him and his family(!). For shame.\n\nAnd, now, with the U.S. House of Representatives back in GOP control following the November midterms, Republicans threaten to investigate this peerless public servant? More shame.\n\nTrained in virology, Dr. Fauci understands contagion of the viral sort. Presumably, as a public health official, he also understands political contagion: the sort infecting ambitious types in their quest to climb the greasy pole for power. It is a sickening sight, and it must have sickened the good doctor, too. In his final interview with \"PBS NewsHour,\" Dr. Fauci expressed disappointment that the American public, so divided, could not see the COVID-19 pandemic as a galvanizing event, like World War II, that brought a disparate people together, as one, to fight for their mutual salvation. The good doctor no doubt feels he failed in his galvanizing role. I hope in his forthcoming memoir Dr. Fauci diagnoses our ideological disease and also prescribes treatment.\n\n\"No good deed goes unpunished\": The French with this proverb reveal their insight into human nature at its worst. Dr. Fauci took the worst. But, to his everlasting credit, he persevered in advocating for his patient - the American public - and steadfastly adhered to the science. I often wondered as Dr. Fauci hammered yet again at his message, what the constant repetition of his good advice, and the constant disputing of it, was doing to the wielder of the hammer himself, though this Stoic will not likely get lyrical about his pain. In his valedictory rounds before his official retirement in December upon leaving a half-century of public service, Dr. Fauci's parting advice, to future scientists as well as the public, remained simply: Follow the science.\n\nMeanwhile, Americans, so caught up in advocating for their own personal liberty, might do a rethink and consider, like Dr. Fauci, advocating for the commonweal, for the American public as a whole. Therein, as this viral pandemic recedes, lies our ethical recovery.\n\nI among millions thank Heaven that America had Anthony Stephen Fauci as its guide in this historic pandemic. Just remember how terrified we all were at the outset of this pandemic - was this another bubonic plague? - and how Dr. Fauci's steadying influence quelled that terror. 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Early on his only error was not advocating for universal use of masks soon enough. He did an excellent job at supporting the rapid development of the Covid RNA vaccine, He strongly pushed for controls and measures that if they had been followed by Trump and his administration 500,000 lives would have been saved. The problem was not Fauci it was the extreme right that advocated against taking the vaccine and for not following the basic CDC recommended Covid guidelines. This is why those 500,000 should not have died.\n\nIn response to the totally absurd comments below. The Swedish apporach (2,274 Covid deaths/million population) was an utter failure when compared to other Scandinavian countries such as Norway (928 Covid deaths/million). I have a relative who was a phusicisn on the front lines in Sweden and she would be the frist to say the Swedish approach to Covid was a fiasco and an embarraament. Fauci should not be improisoned he should be given accolades for his efforts. Mike Mar let us compare US (3384 Covid Deaths/million population) to Canada (1,312 deaths/million). Sadly Mike stats do not lie. The US failed on its Covid response not because of Fauci but because we as a nation failed to follow his plan and the guideliens of the CDC. That is the reality. Thanks Carla for writing this article. For someone that worked on Covid 19 and ran mathematical models on this pandemic this was well done. I do wish that a non-partisan presidential commission would be established to investigate how we as a country responded to this pandemic and how we should prepare for the next one. I guarantee you another one will come probably sooner than we think!", "metadata": {"counts": {"id": "dc2a0366f948", "title": "Fauci did a premier job on handling the pandemic.", "subtitle": "In response to the totally absurd comments below. 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Response: Is anti science another stripe of Republican unwokeness?

Prompt: [{"role": "c0080959b615", "content": "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Peerless Public Servant and Pandemic Guide Steps Down\n\nTwenty-fifth in an ongoing series, Notes from a Plague-Time\n\nHow fortunate America was to have, in its gravest public health crisis in a century, a guide of the skill and stature of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.\n\nServing since 1984 as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci led research teams aimed at preventing, diagnosing, and treating age-old infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as emerging ones such as Ebola, Zika, Sars, and HIV/AIDS. Over his long federal career, Dr. Fauci served as medical advisor to seven U.S. Presidents.\n\nWhen COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 - the gravest public health crisis since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide - Dr. Fauci was perfectly poised to lead us, like Virgil did Dante through the Inferno, to higher ground.\n\nBut while it was America's good fortune to have Dr. Fauci step up as our guide in such a fearful time, it was Dr. Fauci's bad fortune to step up - as chief medical advisor to the President - to a \"President\" (Donald J. Trump) who was a narcissist of the first order and a certified liar (see: The Washington Post's tabulator). By definition, a narcissist lacks any feeling for the public, and a lying narcissist is even worse in a life-or-death crisis - he is pure havoc. The collision between the Pre-Eminent Public Servant and the Chaos of Ego must have become, for Dr. Fauci, his own Inferno.\n\nWhich is why, in inaugurating my series \"Notes from a Plague-Time,\" I titled my first post \"In a Plague-Time, We Need Truth and Experts.\" It did not take a genius to foresee both the vital need for truth and expertise in a breaking life-or-death crisis, as well as the coming conflict between the lead players.\n\nAs expected for a public health official, Dr. Fauci quickly became the public face of the fight against this new virus - the coronavirus - which, because so little was known about it and because it seemed so lethal, struck fear, even panic, in much of the general public. Endeavoring to adhere to the science while also giving confidence, Dr. Fauci accurately termed the virus \"dynamic,\" one constantly changing, thus being studied as the pandemic unfolded; indeed, soon we saw viral variants. Until a vaccine was formulated, Dr. Fauci urged the common-sense precautions of masking and sanitizing. For his reality-based professionalism, Dr. Fauci became a saint in many households (including ours).\n\nAt the same time, proving political ideology is as pathological as any virus and acting on a long-term anti-science bias, Republicans soon targeted Dr. Fauci himself, vilifying him for allegedly crashing the economy and hurting America's children with mandated lockdowns of businesses and schools. Accused of \"flip-flopping,\" Dr. Fauci was simply \"following the science\" - following a \"dynamic\" virus wherever it went, which is what a good scientist does. Thus the public face of the COVID fight became a bull'e eye, a ready-made one. Trump, that medical genius, called Dr. Fauci \"a disaster.\"\n\nJumping further down the rabbit-hole of absurdity, masks were soon reviled, by GOP politicians and their followers, as an affront to personal liberty(!). Same for the vaccines, once they came online: These miracles of modern medicine, created in record time, were, according to the increasingly rabid Republicans, yet another affront to personal liberty(!). They even turned \"Fauci\" into a pejorative term: \"Don't Fauci my Florida.\" Elon Musk, that corporate disaster, tweeted \"Prosecute Fauci.\"\n\nBeyond absurd, this inflamed \"thinking\" is flat-out criminal: How many of the 1.1 million American lives lost to date to COVID-19 - count the zeroes: 1,100, 000 American lives - were needlessly lost, tragically so, sacrificed to political ideology and a lethal know-nothingism? On the other hand, while it is impossible to quantify, it can be justifiably claimed that Dr. Fauci's guidance saved countless millions more.\n\nBereft of moral sympathy, Republican pols strutted around practicing medicine without a license. One Republican who does have such a license - Rand Paul of Kentucky is an ophthalmologist - repeatedly lit into Dr. Fauci in Senate hearings with such twisted viciousness that, at one, the usually unflappable Dr. Fauci noted the senator's allegations \"kindled the crazies,\" resulting in death threats against him and his family(!). For shame.\n\nAnd, now, with the U.S. House of Representatives back in GOP control following the November midterms, Republicans threaten to investigate this peerless public servant? More shame.\n\nTrained in virology, Dr. Fauci understands contagion of the viral sort. Presumably, as a public health official, he also understands political contagion: the sort infecting ambitious types in their quest to climb the greasy pole for power. It is a sickening sight, and it must have sickened the good doctor, too. In his final interview with \"PBS NewsHour,\" Dr. Fauci expressed disappointment that the American public, so divided, could not see the COVID-19 pandemic as a galvanizing event, like World War II, that brought a disparate people together, as one, to fight for their mutual salvation. The good doctor no doubt feels he failed in his galvanizing role. I hope in his forthcoming memoir Dr. Fauci diagnoses our ideological disease and also prescribes treatment.\n\n\"No good deed goes unpunished\": The French with this proverb reveal their insight into human nature at its worst. Dr. Fauci took the worst. But, to his everlasting credit, he persevered in advocating for his patient - the American public - and steadfastly adhered to the science. I often wondered as Dr. Fauci hammered yet again at his message, what the constant repetition of his good advice, and the constant disputing of it, was doing to the wielder of the hammer himself, though this Stoic will not likely get lyrical about his pain. In his valedictory rounds before his official retirement in December upon leaving a half-century of public service, Dr. Fauci's parting advice, to future scientists as well as the public, remained simply: Follow the science.\n\nMeanwhile, Americans, so caught up in advocating for their own personal liberty, might do a rethink and consider, like Dr. Fauci, advocating for the commonweal, for the American public as a whole. Therein, as this viral pandemic recedes, lies our ethical recovery.\n\nI among millions thank Heaven that America had Anthony Stephen Fauci as its guide in this historic pandemic. Just remember how terrified we all were at the outset of this pandemic - was this another bubonic plague? - and how Dr. Fauci's steadying influence quelled that terror. 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