Fauci and other health 'experts' are messing up monkeypox just as they did COVID, Ebola and AIDS - New York Post

Once, I believed that the world is run by experts who know what to do. I believed that the best answer to a crisis is to listen to the experts and do what they say because they know best and can be trusted to have our interests at heart.

The Vietnam War, which predated my youthful enthusiasm for experts, was launched by what David Halberstam mockingly called “the best and the brightest” in a book by the same name. .

(It’s actually a smallpox vaccine called Jynneos, also effective against monkeypox.) But when we needed it, the so-called National Strategic Stockpile had only 2,400 doses on hand, enough to vaccinate just 1,200 people?

Well, yes. Worse yet, this vaccine — which was also intended to deal with a bioterror-inspired smallpox outbreak — was stored outside the United States in the facilities of the Danish manufacturer, which caused logistical issues of its own.

Monkeypox “is not hyper-virulent,” he notes, and vaccines, treatments and techniques, such as contact tracing, designed for smallpox work just as well.

The health establishment’s incompetence with regard to COVID is infamous. First, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci downplayed the threat, only to turn on a dime and pronounce it deadly. The CDC developed a defective test for COVID, then for months blocked other institutions from distributing competing tests that worked. (It’s doing the same thing with monkeypox tests.) Fauci also executed a 180-degree turn on masking and promoted lockdowns, which the World Health Organization concluded do more harm than good.

We’d like to live in a world where we can trust the experts, both to know what to do and to promote policies that will help us. But we don’t live in that world. Maybe we need better experts. The ones we have don’t seem especially expert at all.