There is no excuse

I was talking to a guy in a bar last week—yes some of us can still go put and drink beer with strangers—who is a Funeral Director fir a pretty big outfit. He had about 40 people working for him. He said they were seeing a lot of suicides. It was noisy—by that point it was a CROWDED bar—but I thought he said it was about 20% of his deaths.

Here is the thing: depression is a recognized public health issue. It is tracked by groups like the CDC and the NIH in my understanding, for the simple reasons that it has attributes and leads both to worse heslth outcomes, and sudden death in the form of suicide.

If Fauci wants to punt on the political and economic outcones of his policies, that alone makes him an  amoral turd—the opposite of a “mensch”—but it is defensible.

However no public health advice, given in a professional capscity—can fail to recognize and factor in mental health consequences.  If Fauci KNOWS that suicides and drug ovetdoses are outpacing COVID deaths, he is not just committing a moral atrocity, but a crime against professionalism itself. He cannot even say he is just doing his job. He isnt.