Yep

The best defense of Fauci. Here is the issue:

Essentially, Paul is outraged by the 12D chess official system and wants to break out one question. Fauci wants to protect that system which probably believes that it’s safer to be in bed w/ CCP than to be shut out. Fauci is playing dumb on GoFR and Rand is insinuating too much. 

and this: 

In the end the system creatures are correct that we need grand strategies that are at times counter intuitive. The populists are correct that many grand strategies are batshit crazy. Hence the two incompatible world views. I expect this thread to be popular with neither. Alas...