I don’t think McCormick is an idiot, I think he’s shaped by his experience, and Fauci is caught up in his system. Their positions are different, and therefore they act and respond differently. McCormick is on the ground trying to get the best possible outcome for the people under his guidance and directly needed assistance. Fauci is more wide and varied, focusing more on trade offs, and trying to successfully pioneer through unknowns. He’ll be right and wrong, anyone will be regardless of who’s in charge, so mistakes will happen, while successes will happen.
I think it’s understandable to hate him for the aftershocks of his own failures, but I don’t think he’s the problem at all. If you want to avoid these issues, create a more efficient bureaucracy, increase the size of advisory boards, and make a more ground-up system instead. It’s not impossible to fix, and Fauci isn’t the problem.
Someone will always get censored, attacked, or mistreated, and I hate that, but it’s inevitable. The best thing that can be done is to factor that voice into the equation, and try to figure out the situation, because Covid was something we were unprepared for, a disease that spread like wildfire, and mutated faster than our vaccines could catch up with. So yes, vaccines will have reduced effectiveness, but the very same people complaining about their ineffectiveness simultaneously despise funding pharmaceutical companies in developing new ones.
If we want to fix the problem, government needs to do the big actions, scientists need to be at the helm (as Fauci is himself a scientist), and companies need to cooperate. This type of stuff is painful, and no matter who stands at the top, the public will hate them. In the context of that video, Fauci was referring to usual conservative talking points with less educated workers, and how that could be fixed via assisting companies if they chose to make it mandatory, as is both legal and ethical since it’s their company. Personally, I’d love to obliterate companies as a concept, but factoring out Marxist ideals in this equation, it’s a general right for a company to do that stuff. The bureaucracy is just the engine, what it does is the result of what it’s ordered to do, which is perpetuated by previously established systems. If you want to find the big picture, hate on capitalism and the established system, not bureaucracy itself, as it’s necessary to make anything happen.