Posted on 11/29/2022 10:31:43 AM PST by lightman
Anthony Fauci, the outgoing medical adviser for President Joe Biden, criticized China’s handling of COVID-related shutdowns in recent interviews, and said that the lab leak theory could be “possible” but “essentially molecularly impossible.”
Fauci will step down next month as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and as the principal medical adviser to the president. Fauci started off his Sunday interview with NBC by criticizing China’s approach to handling the coronavirus situation, and said, “Well, their approach has been very, very severe and rather draconian in the kinds of shutdowns without a seeming purpose.” He talked about how the regime was running quarantine operations without an “end game” that “really doesn’t make public health sense.”
“So remember we were talking about flattening the curve and the social distancing and restrictions and shutdown, which was never really complete, is done for a temporary period of time for the purpose of regrouping, getting more personal protective equipment, getting people vaccinated. It seems that in China it was just a very, very strict extraordinary lockdown where you lock people in the house but without any seemingly endgame to it.”
Fauci also said he was “baffled” that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has only approved domestic vaccines within its borders and which were “not particularly effective at all compared to any of a number of the vaccines that were available.”
Regarding the lab leak theory that proposes, with substantial evidence, that SARS-Cov-2 was the result of research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and leaked outside its protective enclosure, Fauci said, “I have a totally open mind about that,” but a “preponderance of evidence” and “peer-reviewed papers” points to this “being a natural occurrence of a jumping of a virus from a bat to an animal species to human.”
Fauci then said that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over, and replied in the positive when asked whether the country was “ready for another pandemic?”
Regarding another surge, Fauci said, “We have an updated vaccine booster that we want to do, but the uptake of that is, you know, less than 15 percent. It’s somewhere between 11 percent and 15 percent. We’ve got to do better than that.”
Don’t Blame Scientists
In a Tuesday interview with CNN, Fauci said the scientific community is constantly learning from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“What we knew [about COVID-19] in January was very different from what we knew at the end of January, the beginning of February, and then very different from March,” Fauci said.
“Hopefully, we could have been more on top of appreciating the dynamic nature of how things change, thinking that it wasn’t aerosol spread in the beginning, and then you find out it is aerosol spread.”
Fauci said that this was not due to scientists “flip-flopping,” but that “the data are evolving in a very dynamic way.”
Regarding the Republican lawmakers’ claim that NIAID funded the SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, Fauci repeated that it was impossible for viruses that the agency funded to evolve into SARS-CoV-2.
“But if you look at the viruses that the NIH funded—and it was a very small grant, $120,000, $130,000 a year of granting—to study bat viruses in a surveillance way to see what’s out there … If you look at those viruses and you look at what was done with the viruses, it would be essentially molecularly impossible for those viruses to turn into SARS-CoV-2 because they are so evolutionarily different.”
He also said, “It’s possible that there was a lab leak.”
China as Fauci’s Inspiration
During a Nov. 23 deposition, Fauci was forced to answer questions under oath from a federal judge who’s going to decide whether the government should be blocked from pressuring Big Tech firms into censoring posts and users.
In the seven-hour long deposition, Fauci claimed he could not recall many actions he took during the pandemic, but said that his decision to advocate for extreme lockdowns came from China following a visit to the country by Dr. Clifford Lane, a deputy director at the NIAID.
Lane reported China appeared to be controlling the COVID-19 virus through harsh lockdowns, and Fauci soon decided the United States needed to emulate China, at least to an extent, according to Jenin Younes, one of the lawyers present for the deposition.
“This is what we had to do. There were freezer trucks in New York full of bodies,” Fauci said, Younes told The Epoch Times.
“The question of human rights didn’t factor in” to Fauci’s mindset, according to Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing some of the plaintiffs in the case.
Protests against the Chinese communist regime for its harsh COVID-19 lockdowns and other severe measures have recently rocked the nation.
The protests were triggered by the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Urumqi, Xinjiang, who died due to an apartment fire. First responders were unable to reach the scene on time due to prevailing COVID-19 blockades and lockouts throughout the residential compound. After the video of the incident went viral on Chinese social media, it sparked outrage.
On Sunday, protests erupted in Shanghai once more, with people demanding an end to PCR tests and insisting on their right to basic freedoms.
In videos from places like Guangzhou, Nanjing, and others, protestors were seen fighting against the police and dismantling barricades. In Beijing, demonstrations were reportedly held at 50 universities.
At Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s alma mater Tsinghua University, around 2,000 students called for “freedom of speech” and demanded easing down of COVID-19 controls.
is he going to raise beagles in his retirement?
Shove your silly little ideas up your Dorkbamahole, Fauci.
"Could not recall", like his hero Hillary who obviously coached him on how to be a criminal and get away with it legally.
Fauci made millions in bribes and kickbacks. He belongs in prison.
How can he attack acience?
“Molecularly impossible.” Are we supposed to be impressed. Sounds pretty scientific I stand in awe.
Mr Fauci
As someone without so much as a college degree in anything let me tell you what happened.
The US can’t legally do gain of function research so we financed and participated in it in a lab in Wuhan instead. Deliberately or accidentally, the virus got out. Because the world is run by corrupt and wicked people it was seized upon to usurp whatever civil rights we may have enjoyed. A huge and unprecedented flex
A handful of those in power may have some conscience and may have realized the cognitive dissonant insanity and made a handful of reasonable decisions. But overall it was a tyrannical free for all.
The health care providers were so interest in a) making millions of grift bucks and b) becoming the great heroes of the world that they became
our enemies instead of our friends, destroying all semblance of the Hippocrates Oath.
As the months wear on it is harder and to keep the farce up. Oh even a third in the US are still buying it. But each day more of us realize that we are not dropping like flies, we’ve had worse flus, the repercussions of the lockdown are immeasurably worse than any virus, and the vaccinated get sick and die just like everyone else.
You are welcome for this analysis of the patently obvious
Posted on 11/14/2020, 2:25:58 AM by fwdude
As many Americans brace for further lockdowns in response to the coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci has a word for them: "Now is the time to do what you’re told."
Fauci was speaking Thursday at Washington National Cathedral with other top health experts on the pandemic, CNBC reported.
The White House coronavirus adviser, who has clashed with President Trump on policy, said the U.S. coronavirus response shouldn't be compared with other countries, because it's not an island with 5 million people that can easily be shut down.
"I was talking with my U.K. colleagues who are saying the U.K. is similar to where we are now, because each of our countries have that independent spirit," he said.
“I can understand that, but now is the time to do what you're told."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
HE BELONGS IN HELL. The sooner the better.
Any time a public servant says “do not recall” (in relation to their pubic duties), it should be treated as an admission of guilt.
He also said, “It’s possible that there was a lab leak.”
That’s a change from his prior machinations.
It means:
1. He knows the virus was released from a lab.
2. He knows that information is going to come out.
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