Posted on 05/31/2024 2:35:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Dr. Anthony Fauci said in congressional testimony that he reviewed no scientific evidence behind the specific recommendations for masking children or maintaining 6-foot social distancing before advocating these policies during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The revelations come from the full transcript, released Friday, of Fauci’s closed-door transcribed interview session in January before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The publication comes days before the former director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is slated to testify in his first public hearing since his retirement in December 2022.
When asked about social distancing recommendations that were implemented in businesses and schools during the early stages of the pandemic, Fauci said he did not recall where the precise number of 6 feet came from.
“It just sort of appeared,” Fauci said in his interview. “I don’t recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be 5 or 6 or whatever.”
Fauci also said that he had not seen any scientific study supporting the measurement, noting that such a study would be “very difficult” to do with accuracy and scientific rigor.
The former NIAID chief also said the science behind masking recommendations for children is “still up in the air.”
The released transcript adds to what the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), told the Washington Examiner in an interview following the second day of transcribed interviews on Jan. 10.
Wenstrup committed to releasing the full interview transcripts with Fauci prior to his scheduled public hearing. Minimal information was redacted from the nearly 500 pages of transcripts from the 14 hours of interviews.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“Fauci said he did not recall where the precise number of 6 feet came from.”
I recall it was from a high school science project.
>> Dr. Anthony Fauci... reviewed no scientific evidence behind the specific recommendations... before advocating these policies during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of course he didn’t. Why should he? After all, he IS “science”! Because he said so. Silly peons.
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Just send the Stern letter now.
Everyone knows nothing is going to happen.
What loathsome pipsqueak weasel he is.
Maybe Trump can give Fauci’s job to RFK Jr.
Dr. Atlas was skeptical of nearly every Covid mitigation measure that was championed, from masking to social distancing, and turned out to be 100% correct.
Worse than that, we're going to be subjected to the greatest gaslighting we've ever seen where the worst of the Covid tyrants look at us straight to our faces and deny ever having any part in all the things we watched them do.
"Masks? Social distancing? Lockdowns? What foolishness! We never said to do any of the sort!"
And they're going to get a total pass. There will never be any Covid accountability.
“One of the dumbest moves Trump made during Covid was in sidelining Dr. Scott Atlas and elevating Fauci and Birx to the national stage. Dr. Atlas was skeptical of nearly every Covid mitigation measure that was championed, from masking to social distancing, and turned out to be 100% correct.”
100% correct.
I had read that these medical “professionals”, Fauci being one, just pulled it out of their ear. A totally made up number. What a bunch of sheep the people are.
I can’t post what I Wang to do to this piece of human scum.
Get your facts straight. Atlas was brought in around August 2020. That’s when Fauci and Birx were being sidelined. Atlas wasn’t there first and then sidelined for Fauci.
I’m sick of you Trump haters.
Go away.
I can guess.
My response to him would be delivered by 7.62mm
How many Americans would have locked down, worn a mask and taken an experimental shot under Biden or Obama?
How many months would anyone have listened to them.
The left requires trump n co to get things like this done.
The NRA was silent when he banned bumpstocks..
He gave them mail in ballots and demonstrated America is ready for universal basic income.
And people wonder why he NEVER calls on congress to defund Biden and Obama’s budgets.
Instead… he meets with Johnson and voila a budget deal.
MADE IT ALL UP AS THEY WENT ALONG
I have a lower opinion.
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