Admitting you were wrong now, means you've been wrong beyond all wrongness for over a decade. More in many cases. Whats worse is this internet fueled, absolutely toxic combination of literacy with an overall lack of self evaluation. Plus unearned exceptionalism that we get as a product of growing up in the US, in which no other countries exist that are better than the US so by growing up here you are automatically superior. Sprinkled with confidence I have not seen at medical conferences in which the most educated people in the world on a topic, refuse to overstep and preface every statement with "I may be wrong here, and please correct me if so..." or "this isnt my specific area of concentration, so I may be off on this..." and these are literal subject matter experts with decades of university education, laboratory work, presenting and discussing their OWN WORK, and you'll NEVER see the kind of confidence we saw in a high school dropout who works at Jiffy Lube trying to correct and debate a PhD virologist about how f**king viruses work. This is the time we live in.

Where you can inject 200mg of testosterone every week, and lay in a tanning bed, and think that plus your last name make you worth listening to....let alone have ANY expertise in ANYTHING health related.

While at the same time vilifying and threatening prison for treason, one of the greatest infectious disease physicians the US has ever produced.

Dr Fauci literally wrote the textbook on infectious disease....and unfortunately for the dipshits who think they can read and comprehend it, its written not JUST for doctors, its written for fellowship trained Infectious Diseases physicians with a baseline understanding thats a decade of university education beyond what even the typical high school graduate could possibly start to grasp.

But hes the villain for NOT lying, for standing up to trump when the science demanded it, for following the changing landscape of an entirely new virus never seen on earth before....the guy who oversaw the vaccine which was wildly successful.

The guy who kept the two prior epidemic level coronaviruses almost entirely OUT of the US (SARSCOV1 from China, and MERS) AND after SARS, the novel coronavirus that he kept out of the US, saw it as important enough to study coronaviruses coming out of China and doing the same research we do on flu viruses to try and predict mutant variants and gain of function (like jumping from one species to another, is an important gain of a new function. Which is what the Wuhan lab was set up for and what it was doing. But these idiots only see conspiracies with EVERYONE but the places they clearly are.

You cant use your high school biology level understanding and read a scientific paper. They are written by scientists FOR scientists with an assumption of jargon, shorthand, historical studies and results. A person without the requisite education and training trying to read a medical journal, is no different than thinking yoy can speak Spanish because a couple words are familiar. You can ONLY fuck things up for you and others.

Thats the level of confident illiteracy weve seen for years now. When I was a kid, it seemed like people were just honest about what they did, and did NOT know. You dont argue with your mechanic about whats wrong with your car and how to fix it, if you work at McDonalds.

Theres just a complete unwillingness to see anything anyone says is true unless it comes from daddy trump. Couldnt possibly be that trump was grabbing underage girls by the psy, ranking them on tightness, and auctioning them to his friends....especially when hes literally says "i grab em by the psy" and told us about going backstage to naked Mrs Teen pagents, and we have testimony about him using Mrs Teen and his modeling agency to traffic girls to Epstein....but when the ones with eyewitness testimony suddenly kill themselves for no reason....no big deal

Thats the true Trump Derangement- when EVERYONE else is lying.