In his inaugural address, President Biden undertook to ‘defend the truth and defeat the lies’.
So let’s start being brutally honest about dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the source of the most damaging misinformation about COVID-19.
At the very least, the country’s leading expert in infectious diseases and chief medical adviser to Biden is apart of the facts and he tends to change his mind.
This is the man who dictated coronavirus policy in the Trump administration. If mistakes have been made, as the Biden government claims, it’s Fauci’s.
Still astonishing, Fauci told CNN on Friday that a “lack of openness” from the Trump administration cost American lives.
But if people’s lives were really at stake last year, why did he wait until now to tell us?
Get it up to another convenient fiber of an ordinary fiber, which has deceived us from everything from masks to herd immunity.
Even if you decide that these are not lies, but that convictions by Fauci have lapsed, it could have had fatal consequences.
Take, for example, the calm of Fauci back on January 21 last year, when he assured us that the virus that plagued China at the time “is not something the citizens of the United States should worry about.”
To be honest, the pandemic has caught many people unaware, but the thing about Fauci is that he is always so sure of himself.
The following week, he was again engaged in opposition to Donald Trump’s proposed flight ban from China, which Biden described at the time as ‘xenophobia’.
It was January 28 and Trump asked his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, in the Situation Room to convince Fauci and other officials that the travel ban in China would save lives.
“The man I fought the most that day was Fauci,” Navarro told me Sunday. ‘He was unequivocally against the travel ban. All he said over and over again was that travel restrictions do not work. ”
Navarro retorted: ” If you prevent 20,000 Chinese citizens from entering daily and some are infected, are you telling me it’s not going to spread the virus? “It was like talking to a brick wall. ‘
The next day, Navarro wrote a memo outlining three options: If you do nothing and there is no danger, it’s OK; if you do the travel ban and there is no danger, you lose a few million dollars; but if you do nothing and there is danger, the risk is a million US lives and more than $ 2 billion in damages.
‘I have everyone on the task force with the memorandum and. . . it all helped to support the president, ”Navarro said.
Trump imposed the travel ban on Jan. 31 and Fauci later attributed the action to saving lives.
But, says Navarro, “if Biden were president and Fauci was the best adviser, we would probably have killed another million Americans.”
Then there was Fauci’s advice on masks.
In March, when the coronavirus was destroying New York, he said masks were useless.
“Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around in masks,” he said, “60 minutes.”
Three months later, he made a setback: ‘Masks work. . . to prevent you from infecting someone else. . . but also, it can protect you to some extent. ”
Fauci posed in sunglasses and new socks at his pool last June and told InStyle magazine he did not regret the lie:
“We were told. . . we have a serious problem with the lack of PBTs and masks for health providers [and decided] we really need to save the masks for the people who need them most. ”
It was a noble lie, and so he did not feel the need to apologize or even be a little ashamed.
But nothing was more corrosive to the public’s confidence in medical experts at the height of the pandemic.
If Fauci were to lie about masks, what else would he be lying about?
It turns out he also lied about herd immunity.
In December, Fauci admitted to The New York Times that he had “slowly but deliberately shifted the goalposts” over the percentage of the population that had to be vaccinated before “herd immunity” against COVID-19 was achieved.
When the polls said that only half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I said that herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent. When newer recordings said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can push it up a little bit,’ so I’m after 80, 85, ‘he said.
Fauci is not exactly with numbers, which is strange for a scientist who claims to care about facts.
On Biden’s first day last week, for example, Fauci said that ‘100 million people would be vaccinated in the first 100 days’ and said he meant both ‘primary and boost’ shots, a total of 200 million arms.
On Sunday, he was forced to “clear it up” because there was a bit of a misunderstanding. What we are talking about is 100 million shots in individuals. ”
The 100 million goal is false anyway, because we are already there. In the week before the inauguration, 912,000 shots were fired daily, according to Bloomberg News’ detective. On the day of the inauguration, it was 1.6 million shots.
Fauci buzzed last week about how ‘liberating’ it is to work for Biden now. ‘One of the new things in this administration is: do not guess if you do not know the answer. Just say you do not know the answer. ‘
This would suit Fauci, because he never seems to know the answer to something for an expert.
Cuo se ‘kranige’ crock
Governor Andrew Cuomo was busy with his favorite pastime and bragging.
“Never get arrogant with COVID,” he said proudly of the catchy alliteration.
More truthful words were never uttered. I will get credit for the quote. ”
Maybe he should have taken his own advice before accepting an Emmy and writing a book in which he congratulated himself on the country’s worst COVID reaction.
This is what you call in every sentence of the word crane.