There's a reason 79-year-olds shouldn't be in charge

Dr. Fauci now thinks we should add goggles to our Kung Flu costumes.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who recently violated Washington, D.C.’s, mask mandate by going maskless during the Nationals season opener, is now suggesting that Americans wear goggles or face shields for extra protection against COVID-19.

“If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” Fauci told ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton. When asked if we may end up getting to a point where doing so will be recommended, Fauci responded, “It might, if you really want perfect protection of the mucosal surfaces.”

Dr. Fauci, age 79, is in a higher-risk group but has never been seen wearing goggles or a face shield for extra protection against COVID-19.

To be fair, Fauci’s ability to guide a meaningful response to an epidemic has long been questioned, as this open letter to Dr. Doom from Larry Kramer in 1988 attests:

I have been screaming at the National Institutes of Health since I first visited your Animal House of Horrors in 1984. I called you monsters then and I called you idiots in my play, The Normal Heart, and now I call you murderers.

You are responsible for supervising all government-funded AIDS treatment research programs. In the name of right, you make decisions that cost the lives of others. I call that murder.

At hearings on April 29 before Representative Ted Weiss and his House Subcommittee on Human Resources, after almost eight years of the worst epidemic in modern history, perhaps to be the worst in all history, you were pummeled into admitting publicly what some of us have been claiming since you took over three years ago.

You admitted that you are an incompetent idiot.

Over the past four years, $374 million has been allocated for AIDS treatment research. You were in charge of spending much of that money.

It doesn’t take a genius to set up a nationwide network of testing sites, commence a small number of moderately sized treatment efficacy tests on a population desperate to participate in them, import any and all interesting drugs (now numbering approximately 110) from around the world for inclusion in these tests at these sites, and swiftly get into circulation anything that remotely passes muster. Yet, after three years, you have established only a system of waste, chaos, and uselessness.

So maybe it’snot just age; nevertheless, time to put this near-octogenarian out to pasture alongside any other 79-year-olds in or seeking national office.