When 74-year-old President Donald Trump brought 65-year-old Dr. Scott Atlas on board Aug. 10, the media found every way to discredit him, wanting only 80-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health. Fauci and 64-year-old State Department epidemiologist Dr. Deborah were part of Trump’s Cornavirus Task Force, both of whom advised Trump to shut down the economy to slow the spread. Closing down the economy between April and May cost the U.S. economy 30 million jobs, spiking the unemployment rate from 3.5% to over 11% practically overnight. Trump learned a bitter lesson what happens when he listens to medical experts, knowing nothing about the economy. Whether the shut downs slowed the virus spread is anyone’s guess. What’s known for sure is that shutting down the economy cost 30 million jobs, spreading untold misery.
Since starting to reopen the economy in May, Trump received flack from Fauci and Birx, practically pulling teeth to get them to go along with the idea of letting U.S. workers get back to their jobs. When Fauci decided to do interviews without White House approval with the anti-Trump TV and radio outlets, it became obvious that he looked to damage the president politically before the Nov. 3 election. Fauci tries to act clueless but knows what he’s doing talking to the media to discredit Trump’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis. It didn’t take long to figure out that Fauci was no nice old grandpa type but a disguised partisan hack doing everything possible to see former Vice President Joe Biden get elected. After watching Fauci stab him in the back, Trump decided to try a new medical spokesman. Dr. Scott Atlas won high marks on Fox News, a new voice of reason from the medical community.
Since Trump’s been relying on Atlas, sidelining Fauci and Birx, the anti-Trump media has gone wild trying to impeach Atlas. “He’s an MRI guy,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. “If I was confused about some brain lesion and what the MRIC findings were, I’d be happy to call him up,” Ashish, exposing for all the see his extreme political bias. There’s nothing in Atlas’s curriculum vitae which would limit his prodigious academic background to reading MRIs. Atlas works as a Hoover Institution scholar, published extensively on the American health care system and cornoavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 global pandemic. Listening to Ashish, you’d think Atlas worked in some basement reading CT-scans or MRIs. When the media exploits anti-Trump voices from various fields, the public has a right to know how journalists gaslight the public.
For months the anti-Trump media used Fauci as a foil against Trump, asking him incendiary questions whenever interviewed, designed to discredit Trump’s approach to managing the coronavirus crisis. Trump’s media critics aren’t content to hear Fauci praise Trump’s approach to managing the deadly virus, instead doing everything possible to turn Fauci against Trump. Giving the media credit, they certainly accomplished the job of turning Fauci against Trump, not that Fauci wasn’t a willing participant. “He has no expertise in any of this stuff,” Jha said about Atlas. “He’s been bringing out arguments that have been refuted week after week, month after month, since the beginning of this outbreak,” Jha said, referring to Atlas believing that “herd immunity” is a necessary step toward a population recovering from a highly infections disease episode like Covid-19.
Atlas has made clear for all that listen that he’s never pushed the “herd immunity” theory to anyone at the White House or anywhere else. To discredit Atlas, the fake news media continues to make things up, because they want Fauci around to discredit Trump two months before the Nov. 3 presidential election. Atlas isn’t liked by the media precisely because he’s liked by Trump. Trump wants medical advice to reflect his balancing act of saving lives and, at the same time, saving the U.S. economy from anymore destruction from myopic thinkers like Fauci and Birx. Former Vice President and Democrat nominee 77-year-old Joe Biden told ABC’s David Muir Aug. 21 that he’d “shut down” the economy if told to do so by scientists. Biden walked back those remarks Sept. 2, realizing it was hurting his polls. But whatever the situation, Atlas believes Trump’s correct reopening the economy.
Portrayed as a radical thinker outside the mainstream by Jha, Atlas is anything but unconventional. He happens to believe that at this stage of the coronavirus crisis there’s no excuse for not reopening the economy and sending children, adolescents and young adults back to school and colleges. “The lockdown must end,” Atlas told Fox New Martha MacCallum. “His voice is really very welcome combating some of the nonsense that comes out of Fauci,” said White House economist Stephen Moore. “So I think he’s a real asset for the president,” supporting Trump’s mission to get the U.S. economy back on track. “We cannot sacrifice our children,” Atlas said, speaking at a press conference with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “The harm of not opening up schools are really tremendous and all that goes with the known evidence that children really have low risk from this illness,” Atlas said.
