The line between science and public policy should be as clearly defined as it is between the military and their civilian leaders.  Leaders in science are ill equipped to be in charge of public policy, because it requires a much wider perspective and consideration of risk/reward trade offs on many (non-scientific related) issues.  Fauci, Collins et al. are/were so narrowly focused that they fail(ed) to see the larger ramifications of their policy recommendations.  Moreover, their tendency to error on the side of caution with regard to the virus, blinded them to any other perspectives or consideration for the deleterious consequences of those recommendations,(reply>), Hit me up for more information 👆📩