As for the pandemic, Meadows considered it overblown from the start. He believed that those over sixty with certain preexisting health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, or cancer were vulnerable, but that most everyone else faced little real danger, and it was ridiculous to close down the country. He had no hesitation about confronting Deborah Birx and Tony Fauci, indifferent to their collective decades of experience with infectious disease. A skeptic of the science behind climate change who had even dabbled in the field of “creationist paleontology,” Meadows thought the doctors were
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