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In a New York Times interview, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was on the defensive.
Though he admitted that he made mistakes, despite his best efforts, in his and the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he would not take responsibility for lockdowns and school closures.
“Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” Fauci said when asked about “the consequences of ‘heavy-handed’ public health policies.”
“I gave a public health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that. But I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other.”
There was an all-out campaign to shame anyone who dared to keep schools or businesses open and it came from the top.
“Communication in pandemics is difficult under the best of circumstances,” Fauci continued.
“What has been so troubling to me as a health official is when you are dealing with a moving target, the evidence is evolving and new data becomes available, but you get so many different people with their own sets of data that are not real data, but even in a perfect world, it would not be easy.”
Of course, as evidence and data became available, things should have been adjusted, but they weren’t. Stay six feet apart, don’t leave your house, and mask up was the mantra.
“When it comes to masking, I don’t know,” Fauci said. “But I do know that the culture wars have been really, really tough from a public health standpoint. Ultimately, an epidemiologist sees it as an epidemiological phenomenon. An economist sees it from an economic standpoint. And I see it from somebody in bed dying.”
Fauci told people not to go out and get a mask early in the pandemic, and then wearing masks became a religion.
How did anyone think wearing a mask outside or while exerting oneself during exercise or while playing sports was logical?
Then the vaccine came along and it was get it or be removed from society.
Believe it or not, some people never thought of getting a vaccine because they lived their lives taking care of their health.
For a large portion of them, it was not at all political. It was, “I know what my body can do and it will protect me from getting this virus.”
Fauci didn’t see it that way. He called it an “independent streak.”
“I think, almost paradoxically, you had people who were on the fence about getting vaccinated thinking, ‘Why are they forcing me to do this?’” Fauci said. “And that sometimes beautiful independent streak in our country becomes counterproductive.”
Sorry, but that independent streak is what makes our country unique. We were born free and want to stay free, pandemic or not.
Dr. Fauci said that people need to keep an open mind until there’s “definitive proof of one or the other.”
Did we ever get a straight answer on anything to do with masks or the vaccine?
We are still waiting.
Arrest, try and execute fauci for treason and murder!!!