I think that would help, but so would having hosts who understood when they did not have the expertise to understand a field and deferred to experts when appropriate. Or at least sought to educate themselves on the topic at hand from experts.
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The fact that she thinks Fauci does not “understand the science” shows that she does not understand science.
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Israel has over half of their country vaccinated…
Let’s see:
Population of Israel: 9.053 million
Population of the United States: 328.2 million
Bonus: The US has administered 64 million doses already…
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Ah, Meghan McCain once again shows that Meghan McCain is all about Meghan McCain. She’s upset that Dr. Fauci hasn’t magically produced the vaccine and the appointment that Meghan McCain needs to get her vaccination. :-/
She’s like the Washington Generals to the rest of the View, only dumb, self-centered and angrily unaware of her own narcissism. I can’t wait to not hear about her ever again.
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It’s not moot or the bane of science to save lives and gather intel on the hot new strains with vaccines. Having The View hosts who at least understand how the beverage industry works might make it a better roguelike.
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If she ever appeared on “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” I suspect the answer would be a resounding “No.”
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It’s kind of just now striking me how similar Dr. Fauci and Doctor Faustus sound. The man has certainly made his deals with devils, that is for sure…
That wasn’t just Fauci, that was CDC in general, mainly because we hadn’t ramped up PPE production like Rick Bright said we should have done in January. CDC and other experts were worried about ER’s not having any masks, and all of them being hoarded by people who didn’t need them as badly. Back then, we also didn’t know that masks would be as helpful as they turned out to be, and we didn’t know that touch would be less important means of transmission.
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At that time, medical PPE was scarce, and even paper masks were hard to find. (I had one that I kept using for over a month until I could get more.)
I read it at the time as that he, and other officials, didn’t want to start a panic rush of mask grabbing. It might have been the right decision at the time, but I knew that the way he dismissed it would come back to bite.
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Oh come now, you’d watch a bit if they gave her Ayahuasca therapy until her mind clicked onto a non-sociopathic track. (CM! every time her face faults tho, so…) Then they could do sort of a factory tour like pharma manufacture was a distillery, and maybe throw in a false drama where she gets a hair in the brew or something and it’s like what if people who get the vaccine can’t flatten their hair or are irritated by straight hair…
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And yet somehow I knew, immediately, at the time, that this statement of his was going to sound ridiculous in retrospect, and be seized on by Trump, and cause problems. If I knew it watching it on TV, he should have known it, is my point. I understand about the PPE shortages, but last time I checked… we’re still having major PPE shortages, even for healthcare workers and first responders.
Dr. Anthony Faustus…
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If Trump had used the defense production act in January as he was advised, this would have been a non issue. Rick Bright kept talking about our lack of PPE and slowness on investing big bucks in vaccines, and was silenced, as were other whistleblowers. The Ameritech CEO Bowen offered his company’s resources in January, (biggest US mask maker) if the US could commit to buying masks, but Trump turned him down. Had Fauci been sidelined it’s possible Scott Atlas could have been our major science adviser from March until January 20th. Or Dr. Stella Immanuel. ETA: or Dr. Rand Paul.
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The thinking on this is shifting on the second dose and he is being a stickler about it but honestly I don’t think Meghan McCain is even that nuanced on this one. She seems to just be angry about getting one and at the level of how people get doses isn’t science but policy and logistics.
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could she be more obnoxious?
Sure, hold her beer…
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The View is burdened by an impulse to present “both sides”
We’re lucky they don’t have a token QAnon follower on the panel
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Hell, she’s not even smarter than a road grader.
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You really have to ask that in 2021? Yes, yes, by all means yes.
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In fairness to the View, McCain is one of five co-hosts, and the other four made it very clear that they trust the science and the scientists, including Fauci. I think there’s some value in showing that you don’t need to understand all the science to believe what the scientists are saying.
In further defense of the View (I watch it daily, sue me), they usually have one conservative co-host (occasionally two) out of five co-hosts, and that’s been pretty consistent for awhile. The token conservative usually quits after a couple of years. Past token conservatives have included Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Candace Cameron-Bure, both pretty staunch Trump supporters, which at least McCain isn’t. The best conservative host they had, though, was probably Nicolle Wallace, but she didn’t last long because she knows absolutely nothing about pop culture. McCain is frustratingly inconsistent in her views (very pro-LGBTQ rights, very anti-Trump, but also standard cut taxes, don’t help poor people GOP bs — she also voted for Biden, a longtime family friend, but has constantly criticized him since the inauguration), but she’s better than Hasselbeck and Bure.
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I can sort of see that kind of commitment to ideological diversity. You put on one Republican, one centrist, one Marxist, one libertarian socialist…ideally from lots of different backgrounds…and you can be forgiven if occasionally some nonsense comes out, because you really have tried to represent a whole range of beliefs rather than privileging something stupid for no good reason.
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