6/5/2024, 2:07:47 AM · by ransomnote · 14 replies
oversight.house.gov ^ | Jun 4, 2024 | House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1798167276891553847
ransomnote: Video Duration: 5 minutes 33 seconds.Video image below taken right after Dr. McCormick asked Fauci why he (a treating physician) would be criticized by a beaurocrat when, "You're not seeing patients. You're not watching people die. You're not entubating patients right there, with that disease in your face."
TRANSCRIPT OF SELECT COMMITTE ON THE COVID PANDEMIC BEGINS~~~~
Dr. McCormick: It's been insinuated that politicians, only politicians, only bloggers, only conspiracy theorists are disagreeing with you. I want to point out that I'm probably the only member of Congress that actually treated patients during the pandemic from the very beginning to the very end of the pandemic, during night shifts in the ER, thousands of patients during that time .
And in 2020, I was censored. My medical license was threatened because I disagreed with bureaucrats. Literally taken off the Internet as a person who was treating patients with leading edge technologies, developing theories, but doing my very best.
But being censored by the United States government, for the first time stepping in and taking the place of medical professionals as the 'experts' in healthcare.
Any dissent around Covid-19 treatments, mask mandates, and any public policy surrounding the pandemic was immediately labeled as 'anti-science'. I watched as public officials and politicians told my patients what treatment options were best for them regardless of their co-morbidities or their medical history.
Despite my education and my training, and my experience, my opinions were relegated to 'conspiracy', 'misinformation', by 'so-called' healthcare experts who had never treated a patient throughout the entire pandemic.
This has been a black eye on medicine and has hi-lighted why government should never, never insert itself in between patients and their healthcare providers.
The American people deserve to make medical decisions through conversations with their physicians, rather than politically motivated mandates.
Dr. Fauci, did you ever treat a patient for Covid during the pandemic?
Dr Fauci: I was part of a team that was, at the NIH that took care, we didn't take care of many of them…
Dr. McCormick (interupting): Okay so not hands on. Got it. Thank you.
Why would I be criticized by a beaurocrat for doing my very best as a healthcare, this is a rhetorical question, but why, why would the government who has never treated a patient for Covid?
You can read all the things you want but you're not there. You're not seeing patients. You're not watching people die. You're not entubating patients right there, with that disease in your face. Watching that happen. Watching the development of this disease and actually learning from it. But I'm being told by beaurocrats what's right and wrong.
And what's funny is everything I was censored on, I was proven to be right. Pretty crazy isn't it?
You said in an interview as part of an audio book by Michael Specter, that you believed institutions should make it hard for people to live their lives, so they'd feel pressured to get vaccinated. Can we run the audio clip on that please?
ransomnote: video image while Michael Specter's audiobook interview with Fauci is played at the hearing.
ransomnote: Michael Specter's audiobook interview with Fauci.
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Michael Specter: ...do you think can be done about it? I have to say that I don't see a big solution other than some sort of mandatory vaccination. I know Federal officials don't like to use that term.
Dr. Fauci: Once people feel empowered and protected legally, you are gonna have schools, universities, and colleges are gonna say, "You want to come to this college, buddy? You're gonna get vaccinated. Lady, you're gonna get vaccinated."
Michael Specter: Yeah.
Dr. Fauci: Big corporations like Amazon and Facebook, and all those othesr are gonna say, "You wanna work for us? You get vaccinated." And it's been proven that when you make it difficult for people in their lives, they lose their ideological bullshit, and they get vaccinated.
~~~~END OF AUDIOBOOK PLAYBACK
Dr. McCormick: Thank you.
Are all objections to Covid vaccinations 'ideological bullshit', Dr. Fauci?
Dr. Fauci: No they're not...
Dr. McCormick (interupting): Thank you.
Dr. Fauci (continuing): ...and that's not what I was referring to.
Dr. McCormick: Well, in reference to making it hard for people to get an education, traveling, working, I'd say it was very much in context, and I take great offense to this.
Miss Allison Williams testified before this committee about losing her job because she sought an exemption for ESPN's vaccine mandate which came from recommendations from beaurocrats like yourself. She and her husband were actively working with a fertility expert, a physician, on how to get pregnant, and agreed with the premise that she was young, healthy, wanted to get pregnant, and shouldn't get the vaccination for medical purposes.
But she was fired because you made it hard, just like you said in your statement, because you wanted to make sure the 'ideological bullshit' got in the way of her working, of living her life, of making a medical decision with her healthcare professional. (ransomnote: Dr. McCormick mispoke a few words in that last sentence, but his meaning seemed clear).
I think America should take great offense to this. That's exactly what you meant when you said, "Making it hard for people to live without getting a vaccination". You affected people's ability to work, travel, be educated, to actually flourish in American society, to self-determine - as were all God given rights. Shame on you.
Dr. Fauci, you've become 'Dr. Fear'. Americans do not hate science. I don't hate science. The American people hate having their freedoms taken from them.
You inspired and created fear through mask mandates, school closures, vaccine mandates, that have destroyed that have destroyed the American people's trust in our public health institutions.This fear you created will continue to have ripple effects over generations to come. We have already seen its effects in education, in the economy, in everything else.
Quite frankly you said, "If you disagree with me, you disagree with science." Dr Fauci, I disagree with you because I disagree with fear.
~~~~TRANSCRIPT OF SELECT COMMITTE ON THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS
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