Fauci's Biggest Crime

Townhall.com ^ | 23 August A.D. 2022 | Larry O'Connor

[lightman]

Now that the Anthony Fauci era may soon be (finally) coming to an end, it may be useful to reflect on the very real damage this man has done over the course of the past several years during the most extraordinary reaction to a viral pandemic the American people have ever seen.

Yes, you read that right. Even during the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, when 500 million people worldwide were infected with an estimated 50 million deaths, the American reaction through the federal government was relatively muted and the economic impact created at the direction of our national leaders was minimal.

"The immediate economic fallout for the US economy from the coronavirus pandemic is predicted to be disastrous. In comparison, while the Spanish flu also had some economic consequences, they were mostly modest and temporary," wrote professors of finance Efraim Benmelech and Carola Frydman in the early days of Fauci's engineered shut-down.

Under Anthony Fauci's direction and recommendation, the American economy went dormant for "15 days to slow the spread" and then, upon his obstinant insistence, that 15 days was extended and extended and extended, creating economic and social impacts still felt across our nation.

Indeed, as of August 23 (the origination date of this column), 14 states were still operating under Emergency Health protocols, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy. Under Fauci's strong recommendation, states seized power and control of their citizens' rights, livelihoods and liberty in an effort to "slow the spread" a full two and a half years after Fauci's first shut-down advice.

But, remarkably, that's not the worst crime in Fauci's tawdry and shameful legacy.

We could mention the deaths related to other illnesses and diseases that went uninvestigated and unchecked due to strict hospital protocols put in place after Fauci's Napoleanesque power grab. And, let's not forget the despair felt by untold millions of Americans who died without their loved ones able to be at their bedside.

We could also mention the lost academic and socialization years of America's children. The devastating impacts of over two years of isolation and educational indifference aimed at children unlucky enough to live in states other than Florida, Texas, Tennessee and a handful of other regions Fauci's enablers referred to as "Neanderthals" will take decades to fully discover.

Parents were so frustrated by their local school board's insistence in adopting Fauci's draconian lock-down protocols that they were deemed "domestic terrorists" by the Justice Department, and a special team was formed at the FBI to track and investigate parents who just wanted their kids to get back in the classroom. Those disgusting events were also a result of Fauci's megalomania.

You could argue that Fauci's biggest crime was that he was consistently wrong, but never sorry.

And boy, has he been wrong.

He proclaimed that we had a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" at a time when he knew full well (according to his former colleague Deborah Birx) that the vaccines would not protect against infections.

He famously told us not to wear masks because they wouldn't make a difference... he then insisted we wear a mask... he then insisted that we wear multiple masks... he then was consistently seen without masks when he didn't know the cameras were on.

He insisted that the Covid-19 virus originated naturally at a wet market in Wuhan until the overwhelming evidence forced him to backpedal.

His mistakes and lies go on and on... and that's fine... we all make mistakes. But Saint Fauci never acknowledges or apologizes for any of his.

These are all great candidates for Fauci's biggest crimes, but I'll offer one more. One that I think trumps them all.

Because of Anthony Fauci, Americans have a dwindling – if non-existent – level of faith in their public health institutions. When the next "expert" stands in front of the American people to deliver information, advice and warnings about a public health issue, most of us will be skeptical and wonder if what we are hearing has been politicized. And that's Fauci's fault.

Fauci is worse than the boy who cried wolf. He's the boy who told fantastical tales about multiple wolves and wrongly advised on how to protect yourself from those wolves even after saying the wolves would cause you no harm. And now, the next time we hear about a dangerous wolf, our understandable reaction will be to ignore the warnings. And people will die.

Fauci did that. Because he let his ego and petty, political battles take precedence over his duty and responsibility to the American people and the truth.

Goodbye and good riddance.

[lightman]

Fauci is worse than the boy who cried wolf. He's the boy who told fantastical tales about multiple wolves and wrongly advised on how to protect yourself from those wolves even after saying the wolves would cause you no harm. And now, the next time we hear about a dangerous wolf, our understandable reaction will be to ignore the warnings. And people will die.

[Celtic Conservative]

Breathing?

CC

[FamiliarFace]

*** We could mention the deaths related to other illnesses and diseases that went uninvestigated and unchecked due to strict hospital protocols put in place after Fauci’s Napoleanesque power grab. And, let’s not forget the despair felt by untold millions of Americans who died without their loved ones able to be at their bedside.***

For me personally, this is his number one sin. I lost my brother a year ago to the day in 3 days. He died without his wife of 49 years by his side, none of his four children, nor his 8 grandchildren, nor his 5 brothers and sisters, nieces, nephews, etc. My family is the kind that gathers together and prays at hospital bedsides as our family members leave us. Fauci robbed him (and us) of that great gift. We are told he had a nurse hold his hand as he passed, but seriously, because no one was allowed there, is that true? It was just someone who clocked in for a shift that day. A complete stranger.

Thanks to Anthony Fauci. I detest that man.

[lightman]

DO NOT FORGET what they’ve done to you.
Do not let their sudden realization they are in bad shape politically excuse the last two-plus years of abuses.
They shut down your job.
Called many of you “non-essential.”
Closed your kids’ schools.
Expected you to live off $1200 for months while they got richer and richer.
Denied you the ability to be with your dying loved ones.
Then denied you the ability to give those loved ones a proper funeral.
While they let George Floyd have three.
While they went on vacation.
Visited family.
The hair salon.
They arrested you for paddle boarding by yourself.
They shut down the parks and the playgrounds.
They called you a grandma killer if you questioned them.
Suspended you from social media if you didn’t obey the narrative.

They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They messed with supply chains and emptied store shelves, while the elites partied on yachts and Martha’s Vineyard.
They queered women’s sports and the military, and made the citizenry pay for it.
They sexualized schoolchildren, and persecuted parents at school board meetings.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.

Do not forget what they have done.
Do not forgive them.
They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmareof the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best the Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us.
Project.
Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).

DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity.
Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a “public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
(Remember, they are the very same people who ignore a pubic health emergency aka AIDS.)
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.

NEVER FORGET.

REMEMBER…..in NOVEMBER!

[Sicon]

Under Fauci's strong recommendation, states seized power and control of their citizens' rights, livelihoods and liberty in an effort to "slow the spread" a full two and a half years after Fauci's first shut-down advice.

And brainless, spineless, morons - many of them frequent posters here on FR - cheered and supported all of it.

We will NEVER forget.

[isthisnickcool]

When non-capitalists (everyone in Washington and in all politics countrywide) run a system based on capitalism this is what you get. Idiots running systems they don’t understand.

[Falconspeed]

Wow. An article that points out twenty major mistakes by Fauci is ignoring many other major, major mistakes made by Fauci. Um, around 1990 there was a problem in San Francisco where people were dying of AIDS and Fauci stopped simple cures, just like Fauci stops invermectin today. Also, Francis Collins quit in December 2021, because he finally saw the deception and harm caused by Fauci, the grand failure.

[Allegra]

Thanks to Anthony Fauci. I detest that man.

I’m so sorry about your brother, his family and you. You all have my condolences and I will send up a prayer.

I lost a dear, longtime best friend in April 2020 and my very close sister in November 2020. I couldn’t be there with either one. None of us could.

Because of the Covid restrictions and Fauci and that bunch.

[LegendHasIt]

So, being wrong is worse than being a mass murderer????

[Bullish]

He’s been wrong about everything for the past 47 years, that’s why he kept getting promoted.

[Still Thinking]

Oxygen theft?

[sbnsd]

I loved what you wrote, #1 and this post. Great summary!! Thanks!

[momincombatboots]

Trump could have said no, or even acted later. He still denies his responsibility in this entire thing. This country lost freedoms unimaginable under the leadership of trump. Generations to come will never know freedoms like we had.
He should have shut Fauci down, instead he doubled down and went full throttle into operation warp speed.
Why is everyone demanding Fauci be held accountable and not trump. Sounds like leftists think run amuck.
Lives, careers, children all paid the price… and we are still paying.
Trump is rightly upset about the raid, but this is the power he gave them. He gave them mail in ballots too, so why complain about the steal.

[DSH]

Vote GOP? Please. Much of what you've listed was initiated on Trump's watch. And it was within Trump's power to remove Tony Fauci from his position as Director of NIAID at the very outset -- while Fauci may be a career civil servant, and therefore could not be fired outright, as a career SES he serves in his particular position at the pleasure of the President -- but Trump didn't. Instead, Fauci was allowed to be front and center during the initial federal government response. What? Do you think Fauci just wandered into the White House uninvited?

The dreadful response of the federal government to the pandemic throughout 2020 is on Trump. On who else would it be, hmm? All that Trump (and the GOP) did was to set the stage for the truly appalling response we've seen from the Biden administration thereafter. The GOP gets no pass from me in this regard. It, and Trump, failed miserably.

Accordingly, I'll keep my own counsel as to whom to blame for this catastrophic "public health" response. Meanwhile, those who use it for partisan pandering purposes disgrace -- and beclown --themselves.

[liberalh8ter]

Don't forget Deborah Birx! I mean, she's so proud of her lies she penned them for all to see.

[SouthernClaire]

I am so very sorry for your loss of your dear brother and the circumstances it, Familiar. May God in His grace give you comfort.

[FamiliarFace]

My condolences to you as well.

Those ridiculous rules didn’t keep people safer. They just tore people apart.

My family was ripped to shreds. Half of us were too scared to leave our homes. Half of us who weren’t were castigated by family and friends for trying to keep sanity in our lockdown lives. Fauci drove that fear factor up by at least 1000%.

I have no intention of forgetting what happened in the last 2-1/2 years, so that the things they took from us won’t ever happen again.

[FamiliarFace]

Great post. I won’t ever forget.

[lightman]

Save and share!

[FamiliarFace]

Thank you. We are planning his memorial where my family will finally gather to occur on his birthday in the next few weeks. Been a long time coming.