# Fauci - Rand Paul Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 20, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauci-rand-paul-thread/952825 "2021-10-20T15:07:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauci-rand-paul-thread/952825/16 "2021-10-20T23:14:23Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Doing the here’s-what-I-believe-and-nothing-you-say-will-convince-me-otherwise thing is annoying, but I don’t consider it “trolling”. I find the selective quoting to be egregious. Multiple times in that thread he would quote one bit of my post, react to it, then act like I hadn’t written anything else. Here’s an example: > [@Rand Paul And Fauci](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-and-fauci/946905/111): > > Those are countries who were hit hard by SARS and Swine Flu, in ways the US wasn’t. They already had a culture of wearing masks in public. They were doing it years before Covid. That’s not psychic powers, that’s a coincidence. You selectively quoted him. You’re ignoring what you don’t want to hear. Jackmannii cited where Fauci admitted that they were operating under false assumptions. And he didn’t lie about wanting to preserve masks. It was well-known that masks were supposed to be sa… I start my post by addressing the claim that other countries were wearing masks at the beginning of the pandemic when Fauci wasn’t recommending the same. I pointed out that they were wearing masks already because in the past they were heavily hit by respiratory diseases that didn’t affect the US in the same way. I go on to address the rest of his argument. He responds with this: > [@Rand Paul And Fauci](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-and-fauci/946905/113): > > then the proper message to get out would be to encourage the making of masks to make up for shortages. Something that happened when the message to wear them changed. The idea that Fauci based his decision on asymptomatic vs symptomatic data is just sad in the face of what other countries did. He quotes part of my post, and ignores the part explaining the discrepancy between the advice about masks and what other countries were doing. Then repeats his gripe about the discrepancy as if I hadn’t refuted it. Let’s say someone complains that red apples are poisonous and overpriced, and you respond with an article showing the safety of red apple consumption and the relative price of red apples to other kinds. They then quote you talking about the price, and counter with their own price comparison, and ignore your argument and cite about safety, and repeat that they are poisonous. How is that not trolling? Especially when the behavior is pointed out to them? So it’s not like it was a mistake. And he did this **repeatedly**. It’s why I left the thread. It’s blatant and shouldn’t be ignored, --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauci-rand-paul-thread/952825)._