Coronavirus: Thread

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https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/fauci-is-leaving-office-with-a-horrific-d44
https://brownstone.org/articles/faucis-covid-disaster-a-summary/
https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Global-Failure-COVID-Mandates/dp/1637583761/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/us/public-trust-pew-survey.html
https://nypost.com/2022/07/13/fauci-returns-after-covid-battle-urging-masks-boosters-amid-surge/
https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1562174007557881857
https://dossier.substack.com/p/dr-flip-flop-a-timeline-of-faucis
https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/a-very-important-new-study-on-school

Fauci's COVID Disaster: A Summary

News that Dr. Anthony Fauci is finally leaving his post after what
seemed like an endless reign at the helm of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases should be a time for celebration.

But it’s not.

Fauci has caused such tremendous damage throughout the past few years
that it’s almost impossible to comprehend.

In nearly every area of life in the United States, as well as in many
other parts of the world, Fauci’s influence has been a key contributor
to massive amounts of human suffering.

Fauci inexplicably had particular ire for children.

Long after it was abundantly clear that closing schools had no
significant health benefit, Fauci continued to support shutdowns and
restrictions on normal life for millions of children at little to no
risk from the virus.

His capacity for outright political advocacy and activism has been
breathtaking to behold and contributed to the extreme collapse of
trust in public health “experts” and authorities.

So it seems worth revisiting some of the greatest hits of Fauci’s
reign of incompetence.

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Masks

Perhaps one of Fauci’s biggest and most dramatic failings has been on masks.

Early on, he famously opined on 60 Minutes that he was confident that
masks didn’t work, that they might only block “a droplet or two,” but
didn’t provide the protection people thought they did.

He then confirmed the same information to people privately asking for
advice on whether they should wear masks when traveling.

He later absurdly claimed that his initial comments were made out of a
desire to protect supply for healthcare workers. Except, of course,
healthcare workers would never wear the types of cloth masking that
Fauci and his allies at the CDC were recommending.

Not to mention that his claim is made even more ridiculous by the fact
that he told people privately not to wear masks.

Had he believed they worked but wanted to protect limited
availabilities, he could have easily told those who asked to wear a
mask without jeopardizing any large scale supply for hospital workers.

Of course, that’s not what he did.

His claim that masking would lower transmission and would demonstrate
clearly beneficial results compared to areas that didn’t mask has been
proven false repeatedly:

Well after it had been confirmed, by copious amounts of data, that
masks don’t work, Fauci continued to advocate for universal masking.

Even today, he’s remained completely steadfast that masks work,
despite the conclusive evidence to the contrary.

Recently, after his incessant mask-wearing was completely ineffective
at preventing him from being infected with the virus, Fauci continued
to recommend people wear masks while lying about their effectiveness,
saying they were “recommending people when they are in indoor
congregate settings to wear a mask.”

    “Those are simple, doable things that can help prevent us from
having even more of a problem than we’re having right now.”

Just like the mask mandates during winter 2021-2022 were able to
prevent the spread of the virus, right?

Lockdowns

The incomprehensible amount of lying that Fauci has done over the past
few years extends past masks to lockdowns and business closures and
capacity restrictions.

Fauci now claims that he never said to lock down the country.

Except, of course, that’s exactly what he said on the record in 2020:

In September of 2020, Fauci claimed that states like Florida that
reopened were “asking for trouble,” while praising New York for having
one of the “best” responses.

Almost immediately afterwards, hospitalizations in California and New
York shot past Florida with businesses closed, capacity restricted,
and universal masking.

His bewildering lack of awareness is bad enough, but even as late as
2021, long after lockdowns and business closures were disproven, he
continued to suggest that areas that reopened were engaging in
extremely risky behavior by going against his dictates.

The headline of a story out of Jacksonville in April 2021 read:
“Fauci: Opening Florida for business as COVID-19 variants surge a
‘risky proposition.’”

Just a few months prior to this remark, he had pointedly criticized
Florida for reopening, only to see other states that followed his
advice have significantly worse results.

You’d think that being proven wrong would create some humility,
uncertainty, and willingness to admit mistakes.

But that’s not what Dr. Fauci does.

Instead, he doubled down, and said that Florida reopening in April
2021, months after vaccines had been available, was “risky.”

Except that California reported significantly higher rates of
age-adjusted COVID mortality than Florida for all of the first and
second quarters of 2021, with mask mandates and capacity limits for
part of that time frame:

He pulled the same thing nationally, claiming inaccurately that the
country would risk a new surge due to “relaxed” restrictions and new
variants:

Remember too that Fauci claims to be the singular representative of
“science.” If this is what “science” is, it clearly doesn’t deserve
the respect it’s been given.

Of course, even into this year, Fauci is defending his
recommendations, all evidence to the contrary, while denying that
lockdowns, which permanently harmed tens of millions of people, didn’t
irreparably damage anyone:

    Dr. Anthony Fauci doubles down on shutdown decisions, questions
studies that show lockdown states fared no better than ones that did
not, and insists Covid measures didn't "forever irreparably damage[d]
anyone."

    For a supposed man of 'science,' he hasn't learned a damned thing.
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    — Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) August 23, 2022

Children

Perhaps Fauci’s most damaging recommendations were related to schools.

Jordan Schachtel compiled perhaps the best timeline of his advocacy to
keep schools closed or excuse those who wanted to keep them closed.

In his capacity as a masking fanatic, Fauci’s also promoted school
masking, saying children over 2 should be forced to mask in school if
local officials decided it was necessary.

No matter how many times masking in schools is disproven, he’ll never
admit these statements were baseless nonsense.

Between school closures and forced masking, the damage he’s caused to
children is quite literally incalculable.
Vaccinations

There’s also his incomparable track record of inaccuracies on what the
vaccines would do.

Among many other issues, his prediction that reaching certain levels
of vaccination would eliminate the potential for future surges was,
like everything else he’s done, almost immediately proven wrong.

His failures in this area are endless.

Obviously this is nowhere close to a comprehensive list of the
incomprehensible stupidity that Fauci’s demonstrated over the past few
years. A full list would require a book, or several books to
chronicle.

His incompetence, hubris, awe-inspiring ego and commitment to being
wrong in every possible circumstance is quite literally incomparable.

The tremendous amount of flip-flopping and backtracking to defend his
prior ineptitude is continuously defended by Fauci as “The Science™”
changing.

Except the CDC guidelines he continuously defended and promoted were
never based on changing science, as evidenced by the fact that they
never ran high-quality randomized controlled trials to justify their
decision-making.

“Science” can’t change when one of the key tenets of it,
evidence-based recommendations, was never updated.

But that didn’t matter to Fauci. What mattered is endless media
appearances, praise from the left, and maintaining a veneer of
infallibility propped up by a fawning press.

While it might be tempting to think that this retirement will signal a
dramatic shift in thinking about COVID at a federal level, that seems
far too optimistic.

As with everything else COVID-related, the Biden Administration has
committed to ensuring that whoever replaces outgoing officials will be
even worse. Ashish Jha and Rochelle Walensky are shining examples.

At the very least, there’s a glimmer of hope that Fauci will still be
called before Congress and be held accountable for the damage he’s
caused and for his blatant, world-altering agenda.