Dear Dr. Fauci, Please provide me with a candid response to a personal COVID question

Last update: Monday 5/9/22 

Why did you decide not to attend the recent White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner last week? You have been quoted as saying that you did not attend "because of my individual assessment of my personal risk". Beyond this, you were recently cited as being "miffed" by the message sent by the WHCA dinner. 

•  "White House correspondents’ dinner: Biden jokes about return to near-normal", Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 5/1/22 ... Note: Dr. Fauci, 81, did not attend "because of my individual assessment of my personal risk"; but President Biden, 79, did attend without mask
• "Fauci privately miffed about the message sent by the WHCA dinner", Adam Cancryn, Politico, 5/4/22 

Of course the editor of this blog is not going to send this question to Dr. Fauci because the question is not just personal; it's rude. It blasts across boundaries that we should all respect, all the more so because Dr. Fauci's announcement that he would not attend because of "personal risk" sends a message that is louder than the specifics of his personal risks. It is a hollering from the rooftops denunciation of the advice that President Biden's other pandemic advisers gave the president that allowed the president to attend, and to attend without a mask. Dr. Fauci is a team player, so this must have been a gut wrenching thing for him to do.

Does Dr. Fauci know something that the rest of us don't know? Of course he does. But it's more likely that his anger is boiling because what he knows in this case involves things that we all know, obvious things that the president's other advisers know, but refuse to grasp the fullest implications thereof.

The most obvious of all obvious things in this case are the facts that (a) President Biden is very old and (b) he is confronting a virus that has been especially cruel to the oldest members of our society. He is being risk tolerant when prudence demands that he be risk averse.

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