The lies of Dr Anthony Fauci

For any thinking person, it has come to a point that they must ask themselves: why in the world would they be listening one second more to Dr Anthony Fauci?

 

The supposed expert par excellence on all things COVID-19 has sown much more confusion than light. His recent backflips regarding the US funding of the Wuhan Virology Institute and the validity of the ‘laboratory-leak hypothesis’ of COVID-19 are more examples of his now typical public U turns.

 

The only reason why Fauci, the highest paid employee in the US Federal Government, gets away with his habitual mendacity is a short public memory and a fawning media. So here is a quick list of the lies he has been dispensing.

 

Fauci said in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview in March 2020:

“[T]here's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.

And often there are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.” 

 

Three months later, Fauci back flipped and said everyone should wear masks. And he admitted that the only reason why he initially discouraged people from wearing masks was over worries of mask shortage.

 

This was an act of intentionally deceiving people about a way to protect themselves from a virus that was becoming endemic—by a trained doctor who had sworn the Hippocratic Oath. That this withholding of truth was followed by another deception regarding masks, this time from the opposite direction, is too absurd to be funny.

 

In March 2021, Senator Rand Paul confronted Fauci for insisting on mandatory mask wearing even for those who were already fully vaccinated. Rand Paul, himself a physician, cited scientific studies, including Israeli studies that found the Pfizer vaccine offers almost complete protection against infections. Dr Fauci steadfastly insisted that masks should still be worn even if you are fully vaccinated, without offering any scientific support. And not just one mask, but two masks! And then the kicker—it turns out that Dr Fauci was lying about that too. In May of 2021, Fauci admitted that his wearing of masks after being fully vaccinated was indeed theatre, like Senator Rand Paul suggested. He stated in an interview:

 

“I didn’t want to look like I was giving mixed signals but being a fully vaccinated person, the chances of my getting infected in an indoor setting is extremely low."

 

Didn’t want to give mixed signals? This from the supposed expert who stated in January 26, 2020 that the COVID-19 poses “a very, very low risk to the United States”, who then mendaciously discouraged mask wearing in March, only to contradict his own advice in June, and who then, a few months later, advocated wearing two masks even if you have been fully vaccinated, undermining trust in vaccinations, only to unburden himself, two months later, that he lied about this too, on TV, on radio, and in the US Senate.  

 

And it get even worse. Fauci vehemently denied in the US Senate, on the 12^th of May, that the NIH under his leadership had funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, situated right at the epicenter of the outbreak. Now, not two weeks later, he admitted to allotting US$600,000 to the laboratory in Wuhan to study transmission of coronavirus from bats to humans. He also performed another perfect 180 on the legitimacy of the laboratory-leak hypothesis of COVID-19, having previously dismissed it as a possibility.

 

More than a year after the pandemic began, and against the smears from a media using Fauci as a battering ram to castigate the lab-leak hypothesis as a right-wing conspiracy, people, including leading scientists and the WHO, are finally open to the notion that this hypothesis, even if it turns out to be untrue, should not simply be ignored before it is properly investigated. The recent revelation that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology went to hospital with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in November of 2019, shortly before the outbreak, surely adds to the responsibility of investigating this theory. Furthermore, accidents in high security labs occur frequently, including at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

 

Dr Fauci, who is meant to be the scientific leader amidst this pandemic, has again arrived at the correct answer later than almost everybody and succeeded in slowing everyone down who was ahead of him—Facebook has recently announced that it will no longer censor the ‘lab-leak theory’, after Fauci and Biden both backtracked regarding its validity. Fauci’s behaviour also has to beg the question of whether his status as an interested party, who advocated and funded gain-of-function research, had anything to do with his previous vigorous rejection of the lab-leak hypothesis. 

 

Dostoevsky wrote in the Brothers Karamazov “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”

 

Dr Fauci appear to have approached his job not from a scientific perspective but a political one, and thereby exchanged his values of a doctor for those of a politician. He has lost respect for those he was supposed to advice; he should be ready to lose the tremendous amount of respect he had from the public which he failed.