Anthony Fauci Admits COVID Rules Like Social Distancing And Masking Had No Scientific Basis
It's been four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the country. As schools closed and small businesses called it quits, we were all faced with a dire ultimatum: Stay 6 feet apart, wear a mask and get the vaccine… or kiss your right to participate in society goodbye.
And now, testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci reveals those guidelines were really just made up.
Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will testify Monday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. But ahead of the much-anticipated hearing, Republicans put out the full transcript of their sit-down interview with Fauci in January. And it has some real bombshells.
Dr. Anthony Fauci played a pivotal role in the shutdown of the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Remember not being allowed to visit your grandmother during the pandemic — for fear you might transmit COVID and send her to her grave? Remember having to watch weddings and funerals via Zoom? Or not being allowed to hug your friends, go to restaurants or even get a haircut?
Well, Fauci told Republicans that that 6-foot social distancing rule was really kind of random and that he doesn't know how it started.
"You know, I don't recall. It sort of just appeared," he said according to committee transcripts after being pressed on how the rule came about.
He added he "was not aware of studies" that supported social distancing, conceding that such studies "would be very difficult" to do.
But hey, sorry you couldn't visit your sick dad in the hospital!
Why? We don't know.
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And then there were the masks. No mask, no entry — to the store, to the airplane, to the party, nothing. Some people even wore double masks and face shields, terrified of the fear porn being pushed out by Fauci and the government he was advising. Even little kids had to cover their faces at school. When they were finally allowed to go to school, that is.
So they asked Fauci about that, too.
"Do you recall reviewing any studies or data supporting masking for children?" he was asked, according to the transcript.
Fauci responded: "You know, I might have… but I don't recall specifically that I did. I might have."
I might have. Trust the science, right?
Fauci also testified that he had not followed any studies after the fact regarding the impacts that forced mask wearing had on children, even though there have been many.
"I still think that's up in the air," he said.
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Those revelations are just the tip of the iceberg.
A batch of emails obtained by the subcommittee also show that Fauci’s former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. David Morens, admitted to using a private account to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about EcoHealth’s Wuhan grant, claimed he deleted records related to it — and said he helped his boss to do the same through a "secret back channel."
"At one point, Dr. Morens said that he never talked to Tony Fauci about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance," Brand Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said, adding that Morens confirmed the emails were sent but dismissed them as "jokes."
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Further, Fauci admitted to the committee in January that he never looked at the grants that he signed off on, some of which total to millions of taxpayer dollars.
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Anthony Fauci was the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anything he said, went — no matter how unscientific or harmful it was to education, the economy and everything in between. On Monday, he'll have to answer for the damage done.
In the wake of Donald Trump's conviction, President Joe Biden and all the Democrats have been telling us that no one is above the law.
Guess we'll see if that's true.