Analysis
Many have come to believe that if Dr. Anthony Fauci either resigns or is removed from his position as director of the the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), then the whole COVID crisis problem of chronic, strategic, and tactical administrative overreach, dishonesty, mismanagement, and ethical breaches within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would be resolved.
Under this theory, Dr. Fauci is responsible for policies which were developed during the AIDS crisis and then flourished during the COVID crisis, and once the tumor is removed the patient will recover.
I disagree. Dr. Fauci represents a symptom, not the cause of the current problems within HHS. Dr. Fauci, who joined the HHS bureaucracy as a way to avoid the Vietnam draft and personifies many of the administrative problems that have accelerated since that period, would merely be replaced by another NIAID director who might even become worse. The underlying problem is a perverted bureaucratic system of governance which is completely insulated from functional oversight by elected officials….