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10 Questions for Doctor Fauci That No Other “Journalists” (except Jennifer Garner and Bill Maher) Will Ask
Dear Dr. Fauci,
I think you’re awesome and that you have the very best intentions. And your admonitions to “Wear a mask”, “Social distance”, “Wash your hands”, as well as “Get the vaccine” are well founded and important.
But, I’m confused about a few things and, since no other “journalists” have asked you these questions, I thought I should. Hope you don’t mind.
1. You are 80 and in amazing shape. You exercise often, even boasting of running for an hour 5 or 6 times a week and even “power walk” with your wife. Why, in almost a full year, have you never “prescribed” or even recommended that other Americans exercise? I’m not a doctor but isn’t the “science” pretty well established that exercise activates the human immune system and helps keep people healthy?
2. And you proudly declare that this running, this consistent exercise, has allowed you to lose weight. Perhaps I’m mistaken but isn’t “obesity” a very real and super dangerous “co-morbidity” for Covid-19? And isn’t weight loss something that EVERY overweight America can at least try to address through non-pharmaceutical lifestyle changes like the exercise you do and better eating? Don’t you think that if you had had a “come to Jesus”…