Respectfully speaking, if someone made those quotes while at a bar after drinking 4 tequila shots, we would laugh our buttocks off to share in the humor. If so

Respectfully speaking, if someone made those quotes while at a bar after drinking 4 tequila shots, we would laugh our buttocks off to share in the humor. If someone from Roche or some pharmaceutical company came to an investor call with a powerpoint with those quotes, that person would most assuredly be fired on the spot. I think we should have much higher expectations for someone who represents 1M+ employees of the US government with many thousands of loyal civil servants specializing in disease control. In the hard sciences, don’t people often say we stand on the shoulder of giants? If that is the best he can say in front of millions of Americans on prime time tv, then he must be standing on wet toilet paper.