Atlas shrugs off his useless Covid role
US president’s special adviser on the coronavirus jumps ship after railing against face masks
Donald Trump’s "coronavirus tsar" has quit.Scott Atlas confirmed his resignation on Monday on the official US government communication channel, Twitter, no doubt raising howls of relief all over the Covid-ravaged land of the free. His contract was due to end this week.Atlas, a neuroradiologist and fellow at Stanford University’s right-wing Hoover Institution and a man whose experience of infectious diseases is worth less than a hill of beans, should never have been anywhere near the job in the first place. Lacking experience was certainly no obstacle to finding employment in the Trump administration — look at Jared and Ivanka.Having frozen out his conscience and caution in the form of Anthony Fauci, who told the president exactly what he did not want to hear, Trump plumped for a toady for the job.Atlas railed against masks, social distancing and stay-at-home orders. When Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer implemented new restrictions, he urged the people to "rise up" to protect th...
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