About Last Week...

Grrr...

Tony Fauci spoke to a Congressional committee a few days ago.

I’m not using the word ‘testified’ because what he reportedly said would not qualify as such because testimony at least implies some element of truth, some relationship to reality.

Fauci said he didn’t recall more than 200 times – maybe, like Joe Biden, he should have retired earlier – and – again – took little or no responsibility for the damage his pandemic response wrought.

He said he wasn’t convinced the pandemic response caused learning loss.  Even putting aside study after uncontradicted study that shows the problem was and is and will continue to be real, a simple comparison should be enough to convince even the aggressively uncurious Fauci of the fact:  don’t water your lawn for 18 months and see what happens.

Fauci did admit that that whole “six feet” thing was made up.  A little late for the people who were terrified of elevators or wanted to go shopping or to church or to a game or the beach or out to eat or to work or to school, but Fauci said he couldn’t undo that aspect of the response for fear that it would undermine confidence.

Fauci also admitted the vaccine mandates have directly led to people losing trust in actual real vaccines that work (not the after-the-fact gene therapy that was the COVID shot - https://thomas699.substack.com/p/we-are-all-unvaxxed .)

Like the learning loss, that is a problem that will fester through the next generation – at least.

As will the destruction of the trust in institutions that need to be trusted to function properly.  Public health, specifically, relies on the public – it’s in the name – to work.  The entire effort becomes futile if the public doesn’t believe you, thereby actually jeopardizing the public’s health.

Untrusted public health is better called public sick.

Just today, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) – to whom Fauci had lied repeatedly during Senate committee hearings – said Fauci should be in prison, not in a comfortable (very comfortable) retirement.

“If you lie to Congress, and you’re dishonest, and you won’t accept responsibility. For his mistake in judgment, he should just be pilloried. He should never be accepted,” Paul told a radio program on WABC 770.

When confronted in the past with demands he take even a modicum of responsibility for his actions, Fauci has reacted indignantly.  He didn’t close local schools, he claims – the school board did.  He didn’t close churches or beaches or businesses– the local authority did.

In other words: “I didn’t run over your dog – my car did,” therefore I did nothing wrong.

Last year, when asked about similar criticisms, Fauci said “I mean, prosecute me for what? What are they talking about? I mean, I wish I could figure out what the heck they were talking about.”

Here’s what they are talking about, Tony: 

Massive educational degradation.  Economic devastation, by both the lockdowns and now the continuing fiscal nightmare plaguing the nation caused by continuing federal over-reaction.  The critical damage to the development of children’s social skills through hyper-masking and fear-mongering.  The obliteration of the public’s trust in institutions due to their incompetence and deceitfulness during the pandemic.  The massive erosion of civil liberties.  The direct hardships caused by vaccination mandates, etc. under the false claim of helping one’s neighbor.  The explosion of the growth of Wall Street built on the destruction of Main Street.  The clear separation of society into two camps – those who could easily prosper during the pandemic and those whose lives were completely upended.  The demonization of anyone daring to ask even basic questions about the efficacy of the response, be it the vaccines themselves, the closure of public schools, the origin of the virus, or the absurdity of the useless public theater that made up much of the program.  The fissures created throughout society and the harm caused by guillotined relationships amongst family and friends.  The slanders and career chaos endured by prominent actual experts (see the Great Barrington Declaration) and just plain reasonable people -  for daring to offer different approaches, approaches – such as focusing on the most vulnerable -  that had been tested and succeeded before. 

And Fauci claimed that to Congress that the “lab leak” theory of the origins of the virus is “not a conspiracy theory.”  In other words, he now considers it possible.

Actually, he always secretly knew it was waaaay more than a possibility but he clamped down on the idea very early on, though whether for personal, legal, financial, or incompetence issues remains unclear.

What is clear is that his current attempts to say he never “strongly” suggested the lab leak was immediately and hysterically contradicted by his own words:

That’s not the memory of a scientist – that’s the memory of a politician.

Speaking of politicians, the Iowa Republican caucus is tomorrow and Trump is expected to win handily.