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GOP Governor Won’t Enact Stay-At-Home Order Because She Doesn’t Trust Fauci: ‘He Doesn’t Have All The Information’
Given Donald Trump’s propensity for lying and his administration’s constant misinformation regarding the current global pandemic, Americans across the country have become selective about which sources they deem as credible in seeking potentially lifesaving information in the face of a national health crisis.
Iowa’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, is in stark disagreement with most Americans on whom to trust regarding measures designed to curb the virus.
Iowa is one of a few states that still has yet to issue a stay-at-home order to slow the virus’s spread. Reynolds has resisted taking the step despite a unanimous recommendation from the Iowa Board of Medicine to do so.
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci recently said that all states should institute these orders.
Reynolds’s response was…telling.
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After calling stay-at-home orders a “divisive issue,” the governor said:
“I would say that maybe Fauci doesn’t have all the information”
Fauci has quickly become one of the most notable figures in the pandemic’s response, and one of the few officials in President Donald Trump’s virus task force that Americans widely trust to deliver accurate information. He’s been an integral part of curbing health crises from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States to Avian Flu to H1N1 and more.
If Fauci doesn’t have all the information, then the country is—for lack of a better word—completely screwed.
People were appalled at the governor’s defense.
Iowa governor thinks she knows more about the coronavirus and epidemiology than Dr. Fauci.
Iowa, you need a better governor. https://t.co/YQMqkbkspi
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 3, 2020
I just read her Wikipedia page and, yeah, she sounds more reliable than the guy who’s been studying infectious diseases for a half century. https://t.co/QCu4tV5GNS
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 3, 2020
She dropped out of college after one semester and later took some community college classes, according to Wikipedia. But sure, she knows epidemiology better than an MD who is the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases.
Good choice, Iowa! https://t.co/oR3rvnsfZQ— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 3, 2020
Iowa has a lot of seniors.
Coronavirus is killing a lot of seniors.
👇👇 https://t.co/e9Hkihv4Ke— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) April 3, 2020
among all the other people who should be protected in iowa, my brother is a doctor at an iowan hospital. @IAGovernor is a murderer. https://t.co/prpp3NJOOj
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) April 3, 2020
The death of expertise—"a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers" flagged more than six years ago as a "very bad thing" by @RadioFreeTom—is now causing actual death. https://t.co/I61EUI5lDD
— Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) April 3, 2020
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