Posted on 08/28/2022 8:22:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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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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?
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:
Dr. Anthony Fauci doubles down on shutdown decisions, questions studies that show lockdown states fared no better than ones that did not, and insists Covid measures didn't "forever irreparably damage[d] anyone."
For a supposed man of 'science,' he hasn't learned a damned thing. pic.twitter.com/f8rV3xZkcS — Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) August 23, 2022
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.
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,
Ian Miller is the author of “Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates.”
Josef Mengele is not nearly as evil as Anthony Fauci. Fauci has far more deaths on his hands. He could be the most evil man since Stalin.
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Interesting article and good use of graphs, but it used too small of a sample.
The real evidence becomes apparent when you look at the numbers for entire nations.
The one size fits all approach was NEVER warranted with Covid and many of us could see that clearly at the outset of the pandemic when it became obvious that it primarily impacted the elderly and infirm.
Yes, there was data that went against that when hospitalized people not in those demographics began to die but we now know that the use of ventilators and remdesivir (on the recommendation of Fauci) contributed to mortality. The recommended treatment (and deliberately ignoring therapeutics and simple things like vitamin D) contributed to deaths among those at very low risk otherwise.
Fauci serves the interest of big money and big money wants globalism.
To hell with chucking this evil dwarf across the Potomac. His f’ing head needs to be permanently on display in a pike as a warning to all the other worthless bureaucrats and politicians who will try to repeat what he did.
I swear many of the “experts” in Gov health were just making it up as they went along. As a example, in early 2020 one of the regional grocery chains made huge deal about the taping arrows on the floor, you know, because science!!!
Anyway within a week, the state either mandated it or highly suggested it. Again, no proof it made any difference but make people feel safe.
They admitted that they “made up” the 6’ social distancing rule based on their best guess. This decision had massive ramifications on children as this was the main rule used to justify shutting down schools to include bus transportation.
Fauci lied people died.
Don’t get me wrong: I despise Falsie. However, it sure looks like the Democrats and media are trying to make him the “fall guy” for incompetence and medical tyranny as the world’s free people turn against covidian lockdowns, muzzle mandates, and poisonous vaccines. I’m happy that the jig is up on covid, but worried that history will blame the fiasco on one person (Falsie), just like the other French revolutionaries blamed 20,000 unnecessary head choppings on Robespierre (after taking his head).
I remember those stupid arrows. Never failed, some FAT ASS was always blocking the aisle standing NEXT to their cart staring at the shelves literally causing a “Traffic Jam”
I ignored the arrows for the most part. My goal, as it always has been, get in, get out, be done. To this day, I have no patience for Indecisive Tubbies blocking the aisle. Yes, they are still wearing masks too.
“taping arrows on the floor”
It always was fun to piss off the Karens simply by walking in the “wrong” direction. Those Karens are almost too easy to annoy. Where’s the sport in that?
“They admitted that they ‘made up’ the 6’ social distancing rule based on their best guess.”
I’d heard it was the child of one of the government people who came up with that ridiculous rule. Somebody knows for sure.
“should be a time for celebration.”
I’ll hold off on celebrating until he’s dangling from a rope.
“Fauci inexplicably had particular ire for children.”
He also performed experiments on orphans (pre-Covid) because he knew nobody would care if they were harmed or went missing. IIRC, certain orphanages were complicit, as they would have to be.
OT — that’s a great tag line! It’s perfect for our times. Laura Nero was only 17 when she penned that line and sold the song to Peter, Paul and Mary. The BS&T version was great and I can hear it in my head (and that was SO long ago).
I agree.
Great summary. Fauci’s pushing of fake science is obvious to anybody but the media.
I did that as well. It was all too easy to annoy and confuse them. Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together is going to realize that it doesn’t matter which way you walk as Covid isn’t only going to travel “One way “down a grocery store I’ll and then if you’re behind someone it won’t strike you down.
They also said you should avoid going out as much as possible, staying home. Well, if I followed the arrows it would probably double the mount of time I was in the grocery store as I literally have to walk down every aisle to get to things on my list. I had some care and argue with me about going the wrong way and I said I’m trying to minimize my time outside the house to keep myself Safe in the less time around people the safer I’m going to be. You could see them blank confused stare at her face and she had no idea how to respond as the TV didn’t tell her what to say in that circumstance.
I forgot the specifics, I believe it was in some California metro area like San Francisco or Los Angeles where the daughter of some government bureaucrat, mysteriously got hired on to write the Covid regulations for some aspect of the response, and it was revealed they have no education or training, at all in any possibly related field.
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