Based on the evidences below, the question is: Should Dr Anthony Fauci face a court of justice?
But don't hold your breath, because the rabbit hole is so deep he probably won't.
Authored by Ian Miller via Brownstone Institute,
News
that Dr. Anthony Fauci is finally leaving his post after what seemed
like an endless reign at the helm of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases should be a time for celebration.
But it’s not.
Fauci has caused such tremendous damage throughout the past few years that it’s almost impossible to comprehend.
In
nearly every area of life in the United States, as well as in many
other parts of the world, Fauci’s influence has been a key contributor
to massive amounts of human suffering.
Fauci inexplicably had particular ire for children.
Long
after it was abundantly clear that closing schools had no significant
health benefit, Fauci continued to support shutdowns and restrictions on
normal life for millions of children at little to no risk from the
virus.
His capacity for outright political advocacy and activism has been breathtaking to behold and contributed to the extreme collapse of trust in public health “experts” and authorities.
So it seems worth revisiting some of the greatest hits of Fauci’s reign of incompetence.
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Masks
Perhaps one of Fauci’s biggest and most dramatic failings has been on masks.
Early on, he famously opined on 60 Minutes that
he was confident that masks didn’t work, that they might only block “a
droplet or two,” but didn’t provide the protection people thought they
did.
He then confirmed the same information to people privately asking for advice on whether they should wear masks when traveling.
He later absurdly claimed that his initial comments were made out of a desire to protect supply for healthcare workers.
Except, of course, healthcare workers would never wear the types of
cloth masking that Fauci and his allies at the CDC were recommending.
Not to mention that his claim is made even more ridiculous by the fact that he told people privately not to wear masks.
Had
he believed they worked but wanted to protect limited availabilities,
he could have easily told those who asked to wear a mask without
jeopardizing any large scale supply for hospital workers.
Of course, that’s not what he did.
His
claim that masking would lower transmission and would demonstrate
clearly beneficial results compared to areas that didn’t mask has been
proven false repeatedly:
Well
after it had been confirmed, by copious amounts of data, that masks
don’t work, Fauci continued to advocate for universal masking.
Even today, he’s remained completely steadfast that masks work, despite the conclusive evidence to the contrary.
Recently,
after his incessant mask-wearing was completely ineffective at
preventing him from being infected with the virus, Fauci continued to recommend people
wear masks while lying about their effectiveness, saying they were
“recommending people when they are in indoor congregate settings to wear
a mask.”
“Those are simple, doable things that can help prevent us from having even more of a problem than we’re having right now.”
Just like the mask mandates during winter 2021-2022 were able to prevent the spread of the virus, right?
Lockdowns
The
incomprehensible amount of lying that Fauci has done over the past few
years extends past masks to lockdowns and business closures and capacity
restrictions.
Fauci now claims that he never said to lock down the country.
Except, of course, that’s exactly what he said on the record in 2020:
In
September of 2020, Fauci claimed that states like Florida that reopened
were “asking for trouble,” while praising New York for having one of
the “best” responses.
Almost immediately afterwards,
hospitalizations in California and New York shot past Florida with
businesses closed, capacity restricted, and universal masking.
His
bewildering lack of awareness is bad enough, but even as late as 2021,
long after lockdowns and business closures were disproven, he continued
to suggest that areas that reopened were engaging in extremely risky
behavior by going against his dictates.
The headline of a
story out of Jacksonville in April 2021 read: “Fauci: Opening Florida
for business as COVID-19 variants surge a ‘risky proposition.’”
Just
a few months prior to this remark, he had pointedly criticized Florida
for reopening, only to see other states that followed his advice have
significantly worse results.
You’d think that being proven wrong would create some humility, uncertainty, and willingness to admit mistakes.
But that’s not what Dr. Fauci does.
Instead, he doubled down, and said that Florida reopening in April 2021, months after vaccines had been available, was “risky.”
Except
that California reported significantly higher rates of age-adjusted
COVID mortality than Florida for all of the first and second quarters of
2021, with mask mandates and capacity limits for part of that time
frame:
He
pulled the same thing nationally, claiming inaccurately that the
country would risk a new surge due to “relaxed” restrictions and new
variants:
Remember
too that Fauci claims to be the singular representative of “science.”
If this is what “science” is, it clearly doesn’t deserve the respect
it’s been given.
Of course, even into this year, Fauci is
defending his recommendations, all evidence to the contrary, while
denying that lockdowns, which permanently harmed tens of millions of
people, didn’t irreparably damage anyone:
Children
Perhaps Fauci’s most damaging recommendations were related to schools.
Jordan Schachtel compiled perhaps the best timeline of his advocacy to keep schools closed or excuse those who wanted to keep them closed.
In
his capacity as a masking fanatic, Fauci’s also promoted school
masking, saying children over 2 should be forced to mask in school if
local officials decided it was necessary.
No matter how many times masking in schools is disproven, he’ll never admit these statements were baseless nonsense.
Between school closures and forced masking, the damage he’s caused to children is quite literally incalculable.
Vaccinations
There’s also his incomparable track record of inaccuracies on what the vaccines would do.
Among
many other issues, his prediction that reaching certain levels of
vaccination would eliminate the potential for future surges was, like
everything else he’s done, almost immediately proven wrong.
His failures in this area are endless.
Obviously
this is nowhere close to a comprehensive list of the incomprehensible
stupidity that Fauci’s demonstrated over the past few years. A full list
would require a book, or several books to chronicle.
His
incompetence, hubris, awe-inspiring ego and commitment to being wrong in
every possible circumstance is quite literally incomparable.
The
tremendous amount of flip-flopping and backtracking to defend his prior
ineptitude is continuously defended by Fauci as “The Science™”
changing.
Except the CDC guidelines he continuously defended and
promoted were never based on changing science, as evidenced by the fact
that they never ran high-quality randomized controlled trials to justify
their decision-making.
“Science” can’t change when one of the key tenets of it, evidence-based recommendations, was never updated.
But
that didn’t matter to Fauci. What mattered is endless media
appearances, praise from the left, and maintaining a veneer of
infallibility propped up by a fawning press.
While it might be
tempting to think that this retirement will signal a dramatic shift in
thinking about COVID at a federal level, that seems far too optimistic.
As
with everything else COVID-related, the Biden Administration has
committed to ensuring that whoever replaces outgoing officials will be
even worse. Ashish Jha and Rochelle Walensky are shining examples.
At
the very least, there’s a glimmer of hope that Fauci will still be
called before Congress and be held accountable for the damage he’s
caused and for his blatant, world-altering agenda.
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Originally posted at Ian Miller's 'Unmasked' Substack,