No.
It was the lying.

You know, telling the dumb public not to buy masks. Secret reason: they are needed for healthcare workers.
Yea it's pretty sleazy, especially as they never even used the defense authorization act to manufacture the darn things for healthcare workers, and then everyone else who wanted them them if they had additional capacity. Completely ridiculous. But part of it was perhaps they were thinking in very narrow terms as well - like cloth masks don't provide the protection for the user of an N95 or surgical mask - and they were not necessarily even thinking in epidemiological rather than medical-worker terms. Might be a flaw for medical people to think that way anyway.

Though, I don't trust Fuci much, just not for any reason the Trumpsters have against him, because they are far worse and whoever they replaced him if they got their way is bound to be VASTLY worse, but just he shades things is all - he couldn't even find any flaws in California's reopening plan. Uh hello it's entirely blowing up. The flaws were all in the little people's behavior. But you don't get in that type of position and certainly stay in it now without playing ball and then some.

Before the mask advice changed my bf was like "i'm going to start wearing a mask to the store now" and I was like "masks aren't really effective, you should only wear them if you are sick or caring for a sick person". And he was like "they are just saying that to preserve them for healthcare workers". Well of course he was right. I'm never cynical enough like I say. Maybe I should have started getting advice from Nassim Nicholas Taleb rather than the authorities since hey my bf was. That's what it's come to I guess