I’m sure you’ve seen Dr. Anthony Fauci on television in his role as the United States’ top infectious disease specialist. But you may not know that Dr. Fauci’s face is now appearing on socks. A Rochester, New York, shop is also selling doughnuts with his face topped with red, white, and blue sprinkles.
Dr. Fauci is even getting his own bobblehead courtesy of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee. It shows him in a suit as he makes a motion showing how we need to “flatten the curve” in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. The museum plans to donate $5 from every $25 Fauci bobblehead sale to the 100 Million Masks Challenge.
This is the least we can do to thank him for his leadership during this crisis. Dr. Fauci is working twenty-hour days; his wife, herself a bioethicist, says she has to remind him “to rest, to drink water, to eat well, to sleep, and to be selective about what he agrees to and say no to some things.”
Tragically, Dr. Fauci is also in the news today because of rising threats to his safety. Officers from the Department of Health and Human Services are providing personal protection for him; he is also receiving protection at his Washington, DC, home from the Metropolitan Police Department. Asked about these threats, Dr. Fauci said, “I’ve chosen this life, I know what it is. There are things about it that sometimes are disturbing, but you just focus on the job you have to do.”
To threaten the man who is leading the fight against a deadly pandemic seems not only illogical but irrationally dangerous. We would think that, in a time like this, we would all want the best help from the best resources available to us.
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