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| Betrayed: The Rise And Fall Of Dr. Fauci |
| 2020-04-19 |
| [Article is "long" but well laid out.] [RemnantNewspaper] On Easter Sunday evening, we reached a turning point in the monumental, wholly unprecedented, nation-wrecking fiasco that is Coronagate: President Trump retweeted a post with the hashtag #FireFauci. Both the original tweet and Trump’s telling retweet were prompted by Anthony Fauci’s latest appearance on Fake News CNN. On Easter Sunday, no less, Fauci, who has been undermining Trump since the day this fiasco began, implied in response to loaded questions by the insufferable Jake Tapper that Trump could have saved lives had he announced "social distancing guidelines" that Fauci supposedly recommended to him as early as the third week of February. Fauci made no such recommendation in February, but was rather saying the exactly opposite that month, as even the left-wing Politico shows in an article entitled Virus 'Experts' Early Statements Belie 'Prescient' Portrayal. Thus, on Easter Sunday Fauci cooperated with Tapper in disseminating a demonstrable lie to the nation. THE EARLY ADVICE FAUCI IS HIDING On January 21, Fauci was asked the following question to which he gave the following answer in a video published by Newsmax: Q. What are you thinking in terms of this virus spreading in the United States? FAUCI: Well those people are probably at a very low risk.... Well, obviously you need to take it seriously and do the kinds of things that the CDC and the Department of Homeland Security are doing. But this is not a major threat to the people in the United States. And this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about. On February 18, in a video published by USA Today, Fauci said the following: FAUCI: No, I don’t think people should be frightened. The risk right now, today, currently, is really relatively low for the American public. But... this could evolve [] into a global pandemic.... So right now, don’t worry about it, be more concerned about influenza, which is going into a second peak for the season, than corona virus.... People wearing masks now is just not relevant. You don’t need to be walking around with a mask right now.... The accompanying text of the February piece in Today quotes Fauci as saying that the danger from the Wuhan virus is "just miniscule" whereas: "We have more kids dying of flu this year at this time than in the last decade or more. The threat is (we have) a pretty bad influenza season, particularly dangerous for our children." On Saturday, February 29, Fauci stated as follows on the Today Show: No, right now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything that you’re doing on a day-by-day basis. Right now, the risk is still low, but this could change. I’ve said that many times...You gotta watch out, because although the risk is low now—you don’t need to change anything you’re doing—when you start to see community spread, this could change.... So, on February 29, Fauci was still giving assurances on national television that there was no need for Americans to change anything regarding their daily activities. In fact, that was the very day the press reported the first death attributed to purported "community spread" of Wuhan virus in the United States. On March 9, Fauci told John Roberts of Fox News that "If you are a healthy young person, there is no reason if you want to go on a cruise ship, go on a cruise ship" whereas "if you have…an individual who has an underlying condition, particularly an elderly person who has an underlying condition, I would recommend strongly that they do not go on a cruise ship." To sum up, it is undeniable that during the months of January and February of 2020, Fauci minimized the threat of the Wuhan virus. There is not even the glimmer of a suggestion that there be a national lockdown of all Americans to "save lives." [More on Fauci's treachery, Bill Gates, and Scarf Lady in the article] |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #20 Maybe he needs a seat on the Ron Brown Express? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-04-19 17:28 |
| #19 Got it, P2K, you need your hand held to know that decisions have to be made with incomplete information, and that later information can make it appear you made the wrong decision. Most of us, though, are perfectly aware of the fallibility of humanity and the existence of causality. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-19 17:20 |
| #18 ^ this |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-19 16:24 |
| #17 His "changing statements" may have something to do with getting more information Did anyone hear any 'expert' say "We don't have enough validated information yet to give solid advice or make a valid estimate of what's to come"? Bueller? Did we have any honesty as in "Here, let me pull this out of my a$$"? Bueller? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-19 12:15 |
| #16 Classic bureaucrat...been in the same job for how many years now? |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-19 12:04 |
| #15 The man is a bureaucrat, not a practitioner. He does what bureaucrats do, he dithers, with a bent to saying things that make matters worse. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 12:00 |
| #14 Fauci "It's very difficult to go back and say that. I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives". Hindsight is one thing,being a consistent bus driver is another.This is his whole friggen job,mitigating a response. He's not a weatherman guessing wrong if it's going to rain Sunday or not. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-04-19 11:56 |
| #13 My beef with Fauci is he forgets he's a Health Advisor, not the POTUS, and his input and info will guide TRUMP'S decision, not the other way around. Trump has to take the economy, national security, and other factors into account as well. Fauci has the luxury of being able to neglect those |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-19 11:48 |
| #12 If Fauci weren't a Bill Gates stooge, then he might get some more slack. But, good point, Rob. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-19 11:47 |
| #11 Loyalty is a prime conservative trait. Fauci should not be publicly undermining his boss by feeding CNN-trolls. If this is a war, he's approaching Gen. McClellan territory. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-19 11:47 |
| #10 And supposed conservatives continue their slide to becoming leftists. People don't like what Fauci's said (or they imagine he said), so he must be a demon, and must be destroyed. His "changing statements" may have something to do with getting more information, rather than incompetence or some nefarious plot. But we can't allow that, because we can't accept mere humanity from officials; we demand they must be gods. So conservatives become the left. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-19 11:43 |
| #9 Ref #7: OD'd on Avery Island Tabasco at an early age. Nothing anyone can do. Stuck on crawfish. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-19 11:33 |
| #8 Patton: "make the other poor [Chicom] bastard die for his country..." |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-19 11:28 |
| #7 Thank heavens he's not loudmouth idiot Gen. Honore either... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 11:25 |
| #6 Fauci is not Patton. Settle for a short Chelsea Manning? |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-04-19 11:19 |
| #5 As "cult of personality" goes, Fauci has the personality of a small plastic soap dish. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 08:10 |
| #4 Fauci made no such recommendation in February, but was rather saying the exactly opposite that month Exactly like His Swedish counterpart? Prisoners of WHO? Fortunately, you had Trump, whereas Swedes had Lofven. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-19 05:16 |
| #3 Trump has been busy, he'll find his General Patton sooner or later. Hopefully sooner. Fauci is not Patton. |
| Posted by: Beau 2020-04-19 02:29 |
| #2 Weasel. What liars and poltroons we're saddled with... In a way I'm glad that their mendacity and spinelessness are being laid bare by this episode. This nation desperately needs a new political class -- and an entirely new, independent, competent, at least somewhat honest media class to keep watch on the political class. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-19 02:01 |
| #1 Alas, my wife, and children, consider Dr. Fauci the "expert" whereas all I have to offer is "facts". Sad. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-04-19 00:26 |