Why Fauci ‘Forgets’
In closed-door testimony before Congress last week, former COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci, the patron saint of failed restrictionist policies, again proved he simply can’t admit he’s lost a massive argument with reality.
The Not-So-Good Doctor surprised House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chair Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) with “how much he doesn’t recall” from the start of the pandemic.
How convenient! Fauci, after all, led the effort to quash the idea (now regarded as probable by the feds) that COVID sprang from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — throwing his considerable weight behind efforts to smear and suppress anyone who dared to dissent. Why? Pre-COVID, he was passing funds for gain-of-function research to the WIV via the EcoHealth Alliance.
Then there’s the anti-COVID policies he championed: social distancing and vaccine mandates. Only now, per Wenstrup, he admits “that the policies and mandates he promoted may unfortunately increase vaccine hesitancy for years to come.”
On social distancing, it seems he’s confessed it was completely fake from the start.
The idea was everyone staying six feet away from each other would slow the virus spread. From that flowed the “need” to close businesses, shut schools and generally immiserate average Americans.
Yet, per Fauci (in Wenstrup’s words), the 6’ guidelines “sort of just appeared” without meaningful scientific input and “likely not based on scientific data.” No kidding: The idea initially came from a high-schooler’s 2006 science project.
Perhaps the most terrible effect of this unscientific diktat was the massive academic and psychological damage it did to kids kept out of school for weeks and months on end. As of 2022, eighth graders had lost two decades — two decades! — of reading and math progress, the deepest drop ever.
For Fauci? No big deal! According to Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), the doc is “still not convinced that there was learning loss” at all, that it’s “still really open for discussion.” Sorry, Tony, it’s not: Your policies you backed did likely irreparable damage to a generation of kids.
Fauci didn’t just get everything wrong about COVID it was possible to get wrong, he also treated anyone who disagreed like a Satan-worshipper.
There’s no way to make him pay for all the vast damage he’s done. But if he can’t be prosecuted, Fauci at least should be shamed as a villain greater than the hero he once played.