Posted on 04/13/2020 10:10:00 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Frequent commenters Jimmy McAfee, Phineas Gage (a pseudonym), and Gregg Updike put up a series of posts this morning detailing Dr. Anthony Faucis amazing inconsistency on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as an effective treatment for viruses, and his record of miserable failure when it comes to development of vaccines. With Dr. Fauci continuing to poo-pooh HCQ, in combination with azithromycin, as an effective treatment for the Wuhan Virus, and his boosting of a vaccine as the only way out of this mess, these walks through his history on those two subjects become especially compelling.
Given that, I am reproducing the contributions by McAfee and Gage here in full, to maximize their readership.
First, Jimmy McAfee on Fauci and HCQ:
The best reason of all to fire Fauci:
After President Donald Trump mentioned during a recent press conference the potential benefits of hydroxychloroquine for treating the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) quickly piped in that the remedy supposedly isnt proven, and that people shouldnt think of it as a knockout drug. So why, then, did he praise this very same drug back in 2013 as a treatment for the MERS coronavirus, a relative of COVID-19?
On the use of hydroxychloroquine, he jumped at the chance to praise the discovery, announcing that it was particularly encouraging because these drugs are widely available, meaning they can get into the hands of people who need them quickly and easily.
However, now that Trump and his administration are in charge, Fauci is singing a much different tune. Rather than express enthusiasm for the many cases of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) that have already been successfully treated with hydroxychloroquine, Fauci felt the need to throw a wet blanket over the whole thing and override Trumps announcement in a stunning display of disrespect.
Youve got to be careful when you say fairly effective, Fauci shot back at Trump after the president suggested, based on Faucis own statements from seven years ago, that hydroxychloroquine demonstrated effectiveness against SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). It was never done in a clinical trial that compared it to anything. It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked.
So why did Dr. Fauci love hydroxychloroquine under Obama, during MERS (another coronavirus) and say so because it was cheap, available and relatively benign and very hopeful, and now whizz all over the use of it now for this coronavirus, when it is still cheap, available (less so because of demand) and relatively benign and very hopeful? Why take away hope when the virus we face is arguably far more lethal than the MERS virus?
Someone should ask the diminutive Dr.
Resign, Dr. Fauci. But not before answering the bloody question.
And here is Phineas Gage on Dr. Faucis miserable failure over 40 years of leading the effort to develop a vaccine for HIV:
Like so many Democrat bureaucrats, Fauci has failed his way to the top, from HIV to H1N1 to this. Wrong every step of the way. And not just missing by a bit, but wildly off-target. And for this he is rewarded.
Vaccine development for highly mutable viruses is difficult at best. Ultimately, the best cure for a virus remains the remarkable human immune system. Its why elderly and other immunocompromised individuals are the high-mortality group.
As it seems likely that this virus accidentally got out of the Wuhan lab, what should concern everyone is what else is being produced in those labs that might eventually be released in a deliberate manner. For example, there is much speculation and some evidence that the Chinese have engineered a Captain-Trips super-flu.
From Gregg Updike on the same subject:
The good Dr. Anthony Fauci has been in charge of the effort by the CDC to find a vaccine for HIV/AIDS for close to forty years and hasnt found one. Im not saying finding a HIV/AIDS vaccine is easy, but this mans myopia is breath-taking! Remember, people like him were predicting that AIDS was going to spread like wildfire and it was going to be devastating especially when Republicans (Reagan and Bush Sr) were in the White House. When Bill Clinton and the One occupied it; not so much the AIDS crisis just sort of faded away. Instead we found effective treatments for HIV/AIDS but no vaccine.
HCQ combined with other medications seems to be able to meet that need.
Dr. Anthony Vaccine, and Dr. Deborah Social Distancing, need to go, plain and simple! While I am not totally against developing a safe, effective, inexpensive vaccine for the CHINA virus, Im not holding my breath and neither should Trump or the country.
Speaking of vaccines: Vaccines are generally a one time deal with occasional booster shots given many years apart. Our recommended (30-40% effective) annual flu shots are just that, shots, and not vaccines per se. It seems highly doubtful that the experts at the CDC will be capable of producing a one-time long-lasting vaccine for THIS CHINA virus, and certainly not for the likely different strains that will continue to be developed by our adversaries.
More likely, it will be an annual shot with a similar 30-40% effectiveness.
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So, to summarize the inconsistent and obviously politically-motivated record of Dr. Fauci:
When a Democrat is in the White House, HCQ is something of a miracle drug for treating viral outbreaks;
When a Republican is in the White House, HCQ is unproven and something to be avoided in treating viral outbreaks;
Dr. Fauci currently says we cannot return to our normal lives until a vaccine has been developed 12-18 months from now, but his record of abject failure related to the development of truly effective vaccines over the span of the last 40 years clearly demonstrates that we should run away from this notion as fast as humanly possible.
Bottom line, Anthony Fauci is a man who should be treated with extreme skepticism by all thinking people.
That is all.
Check Fauci’s bank account and ties to big Pharma. He is 80 years old and can retire and collect fat paychecks bashing Trump. Stay tuned as this will be the scenario.
All you have to know about Fauci is he is appearing on CNN and MSNBC. Case Close.
I’m not defending Fauci, but he has been on Fox News numerous times as well. He was on Jesse Watters’ show on Saturday night.
HCQ is generic and cheap.
That’s why Fauci and Big Medicine don’t want to use it.
the HIV virus is a blood-borne virus. Which means the only way you can get it is by getting it in your blood. Homosexual sex, IV infusions, drug injections. The only innocent people are the folks who got blood transfusions with tainted blood, or virgins having sex for the first time.
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Fauci has said several times that if he had COVID, that he would indeed take HCQ.
So why did Dr. Fauci love hydroxychloroquine under Obama, during MERS (another coronavirus) and say so because it was cheap, available and relatively benign and very hopeful, and now whizz all over the use of it now for this coronavirus, when it is still cheap, available (less so because of demand) and relatively benign and very hopeful? Why take away hope when the virus we face is arguably far more lethal than the MERS virus?
Is it true that his only clinical experience was when he spent time on the CDCs HIV project back in the 80s, pretty thin gruel? Thats the impression left by one of his many fawning media interviews.
He illustrates how bureaucracies elevate incompetent and crooked people to the top.
Napoleon Vaccine4All Fauci: "Brad Pitt will play me.
But who will Hillary pick to play Trump."
I imagine Trump has lots of people/witnesses in the room while he’s talking to Fauci for this very reason. If Fauci goes on CNN after all this is over and says unflattering things about Trump, then others will be able to show him up.
... folks who got blood transfusions with tainted blood...
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Happened to me in 1981. I had surgery and 2 years later was informed the blood I had received was tainted.
I tested negative, but it was frightening, to say the least.
Almost 40 years later, I still have a functioning immune system, rarely get ill, including this recent virus, and I am now 77.
HCQ is generic and cheap.
Thats why Fauci and Big Medicine dont want to use it.
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plus is has been demonstrated to be highly effective in treatement of covid19
AIDS has been with us for over 35 Years and they have yet to produce a Vaccine for it.
They can suppress it with Drugs and they can treat it with Drugs, but once you stop taking those Drugs you are DEAD.
Or babies in the wombs of females who have HIV / AIDS ...
The look of contempt on Fauci’s face says it all ... what a simpering little fellator.
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