I mean, what was a "mere inconvenience" in his mind (lockdowns) spelt millions of ruined lives, lost jobs and businesses, lost health insurance, lost kids because of the school shut-downs, the list is almost endless. Dr. Fauci is, among a whole host of other pejoratives in my mind, the worst case of what Christopher Lasch once presciently named "The Revolt of the Elites." Lasch could see someone like Fauci coming from a million miles away.