I generally agree that we've done too much to enable centralized control of communication. We're at the point where anything that isn't in-line with the approve

I generally agree that we've done too much to enable centralized control of communication. We're at the point where anything that isn't in-line with the approved narrative will be blocked as misleading or disinformation. Yet somehow we've not managed to achieve the desired public health outcomes. We've just fractured our society into two groups who each think the other is crazy and/or stupid. That said... I don't see how you can call Tony Fauci a colleague of Xi Jinping. One is a public health official, the other is the head of a state. They are both in the public eye but that's really the end of similarities. They're only colleagues in the same sense that say Mary Barra (CEO of GM) and the general manager of my local Ford dealership are colleagues, which is not what I'd call a typical reading.