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Elizabeth's avatar

Oh please....it wasn’t THAT novel. He was a scientist in charge of managing a health care crisis. No cover for Fauci. He was at the helm for a very long time. He should have been prepared for anything especially knowing what was going on with gain of function research in China. We all saw with our own eyes and heard with our own ears his dismissive stance on some very intelligent research Doctors in this country who proposed reasonable policy for virus treatment that could have saved lives. They were stepping up and offering solutions based on their years of medical experience. These Drs voices were cancelled and some were fired from hospitals and medical boards. We were left with direction from one man. Everyday we watched him and he lied about social distancing, isolation and vaccines. You say you’ve seen him and you think you are a good character witness because of that. If you can live with that good for you, but for all of us out here, we are still picking up the pieces from his disaster. He owns every bit of it.

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George Cornell's avatar

Hindsight is 20/20. The gain of function work has not been linked to covid19. He didn’t lie. He was analogizing with flu. It was not like flu in terms of infectivity. That’s it. That was novel enough to derail the needed preventive measures.

But America’s awful Covid outcomes, with by far the most deaths and cases, and theoretically engendering the most mutations, is important to be remembered. And the lessons should not be forgotten. But they will be.

When China presented the Covid story to the world at the WHO meeting of Jan 5 2020, EU countries like Germany and Denmark raced home and instituted common sense measures of masking, handwashing and contact tracing, America unwisely did nothing. There was and is a large price to pay.

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Bonnie Beresford's avatar

MULTIPLE studies both here and in Europe have shown that masks do not work, they are actually damaging to small children who are immune anyway. Fauci and Biden lied when they claimed that the vaccine would prevent spread of the virus, 6 foot distancing is useless and was a number pulled out of thin air, contact tracing helps in some cases but is extremely labor intensive, Sweden and other countries who did not lock down were no worse off re Covid and they did not suffer the massive and so far irreversible economic damages. Fauci has made millions from his stock in Big Pharma and he utterly betrayed America by attending more to his own investments and his growing fame and by lying to cover it all up.

He knew from the start that a country-wide lockdown was inappropriate , damaging, ineffective and was NEVER part of the pre-pandemic plans formulated by the CDC/NIH/etc. long before Covid arrived. And he will retire with pantloads of our money.

Because of the way Fauci and other bigwigs in health care handled things, we Americans have lost faith in "experts" and will NEVER again believe tham should another pandemic come along.

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