Anthony Fauci made life a living hell for the American people during COVID.
His outrageous pandemic policies were utterly insane and anti-science.
And Dr. Fauci was spitting mad after he saw this top candidate for Donald Trump’s administration.
A reckoning for the dictatorial COVID regime
America got a real taste of totalitarianism during COVID.
Blue state governors and local officials locked down businesses and schools—while often violating their own orders—and when Joe Biden took office, he instituted vaccine mandates at the federal level.
The only thing that stopped him was Donald Trump’s three Supreme Court appointees.
And one of the worst offenders of the COVID regime was former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.
He constantly lied to the American people, and arbitrarily changed COVID policies on a whim, with no medical or scientific basis for his decisions.
For example, Fauci said that masks were ineffective, then he said they should be required, then he said people might even need two masks, then he went back to just one mask.
Fauci also admitted during Congressional testimony the six-foot social distancing guidelines were a total fabrication, based on absolutely nothing.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing he did was conspire with former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins to slander three esteemed epidemiologists who created the Great Barrington Declaration.
That declaration called for isolating the sick and immuno-compromised while allowing everyone else to return to life as normal.
A FOIA request revealed that Collins wrote to Fauci, “This [Great Barrington Declaration] proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists who met with the Secretary seems to be getting a lot of attention — and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. I don’t see anything like that online yet — is it underway?”
Fauci assured him that a hit piece was on the way.
Those “fringe” epidemiologists were Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, and Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford.
But now Dr. Bhattacharya might have the last laugh because he is on the shortlist to take Collins’ old job as the head of the NIH.
Doctor Jay’s revenge
The Washington Post reported “Bhattacharya is a strong candidate to lead the nearly $50 billion agency in the coming Trump administration, with his name on an internal list of contenders being compiled by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Kennedy was selected Thursday by President-elect Donald Trump to run the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH.”
Kennedy was selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH.
Bhattacharya had received NIH grants prior to COVID, so the characterization of him as “fringe” was utterly disgraceful.
The Post continued, “The rise of Bhattacharya — from being scorned by the nation’s NIH director to possibly occupying his office four years later — reflects how the backlash to coronavirus policies has helped reshape conservative politics and elevate new voices. While Collins and other public health experts maintain that the Great Barrington Declaration’s ideas were rash and would have put vulnerable people at risk, many Americans have come to believe that school shutdowns and other pandemic-related policies lasted too long.”
Once respected institutions like the NIH have lost the trust of the American people because of their overtly political considerations on matters of health.
NIH could use a reformer like Bhattacharya, someone who is willing to stand up to the slings and arrows that will be incoming.
And Dr. Fauci just can’t stand that thought.