Rambling around looking for something else and came across this 2017 article where Fauci says,

“The history of the last 32 years that I have been the director of the NIAID will tell the next administration that there is no doubt they will be faced with the challenges their predecessors were faced with,” he said.

While observers have speculated since his election about how Trump will respond to such challenges, Fauci and other health experts said Tuesday that preventing disease pandemics often starts overseas and that a proper response means collaboration between not only the U.S. and other countries, but also the public and private health sectors.

“We will definitely get surprised in the next few years,” he said.

Fauci's department National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease lords over a bio-defense unit. Why wasn't that unit prepared and why was their first response to shut down the world?

Looked at USAspending.gov using advanced search and key words "National Strategic Stockpile". What a cluster fuck. When PDJT said the stockpile was in shambles, it make perfect sense when you look at the time graph. (Yeah - we could spend over a billion dollars with a company from Denmark for smallpox vaccines, but HCQ …. not so much. spit)

https://archive.vn/klCsk

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/emerging-infectious-diseases-pathogens

https://www.usaspending.gov/#/search/2da67b396bf2d3c6666b9e3c0d0be414

https://www.usaspending.gov/#/award/CONT_AWD_HHSO100200700034C_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-