{"id":1620454,"date":"2022-08-23T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620454"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T17:46:21","slug":"good-riddance-saint-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/good-riddance-saint-fauci\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance, Saint Fauci"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgood-riddance-saint-fauci%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Perhaps no person in American history has done more to harm trust in public health than Anthony Fauci, who will <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/23\/republicans-should-treat-fauci-like-democrats-treat-republicans\/\">step down<\/a> as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December. And it\u2019s not merely his aggressive inaccuracy about the Covid pandemic or even his championing of authoritarian policies that created untold damage to American life. All of that is bad enough. But as Fauci transformed into a political operative, he regularly lied to the American people and led the political suppression of debate.<\/p>\n<p>In October of 2020, three scientists \u2014 Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, and Jay Bhattacharya\u00a0of Stanford \u2014 released the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/gbdeclaration.org\/\">Great Barrington Declaration<\/a>,\u201d a document that rejected the \u201cdamaging physical and mental health impacts\u201d of Faucian lockdowns for a more focused protection of high-risk populations. In December of 2021, the American Institute for Economic Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/fauci-emails-and-some-alleged-science\/\">obtained<\/a> emails between Fauci and Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health. In them, we learned that duo had conspired to smear those dissenting scientists.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists \u2026 seems to be getting a lot of attention \u2014 and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises,\u201d Collins wrote to Fauci. \u201cIs it underway?\u201d It was, Fauci, humble public servant, assured him. And quickly, the echo chamber amplified the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/great-barrington-declaration-herd-immunity-scientific-divide\">fringe<\/a>\u201d smear \u2014 a position that mitigated lost livelihoods, shuttered businesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/08\/23\/a-belated-vindication-for-school-reopeners\/\">devastating<\/a> school closures, untreated illnesses, isolation, and incalculable social and economic destruction.<\/p>\n<p>And this wasn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/fauci-shut-down-lab-leak-theory-despite-scientists-lending-it-credence-emails-show\">the first time<\/a> Fauci had conspired with Collins to shut down debate. Another batch of emails revealed that the duo colluded to quash any talk of Covid being man-made and possibly leaked from a Wuhan lab. Anyone who brought up the notion would soon be discredited as a racist and nut \u2014 a spreader of <em>disinformation<\/em>. Left-wing speech monitors at PolitiFact (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/li-meng-yan-fact-check\/\">Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab<\/a>\u201d) and Factcheck.org (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2020\/09\/report-resurrects-baseless-claim-that-coronavirus-was-bioengineered\/\">Report Resurrects Baseless Claim that Coronavirus Was Bioengineered<\/a>\u201c) both \u201cdebunked\u201d the Wuhan lab theory by relying on a Fauci interview in National Geographic, where he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd\">dismissed<\/a> the idea. <\/p>\n<p>For a year, Facebook banned its nearly 3 billion users from even theorizing about the possibility that Chicoms had been involved in the development of Covid-19. When, in May of 2021, the Wall Street Journal finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that three scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been afflicted with symptoms of coronavirus before the outbreak, we were again allowed to discuss the topic. In the meantime, Fauci had told Congress that Americans had never funded gain-of-function research at a lab in Wuhan. That was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbko.com\/2021\/10\/21\/nih-acknowledges-us-funded-gain-of-function-wuhan-lab-sen-rand-paul-reacts\/\">a lie<\/a>. And it wouldn\u2019t be the last one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Covid, things that we thought we knew at the beginning as the months went by turned out not to be the case,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1561889520211083264\">told<\/a> Rachel Maddow this week. \u201cThat was interpreted as flip flopping when it really was the evolution of the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Was it an evolution in science that compelled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-video-masks\/fact-checkoutdated-video-of-fauci-saying-theres-no-reason-to-be-walking-around-with-a-mask-idUSKBN26T2TR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fauci<\/a>\u00a0to tell Americans, \u201c[t]here\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask,\u201d only to implore them to strap on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/dr-fauci-shows-how-wear-2-masks-correctly-today-t208765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>two <\/em>masks<\/a>\u00a0a few months later? Fauci admitted he lied about the efficacy of masking, fearing it would instigate a shortage. \u201cWe really need to save the masks for the people who need them most,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/507728-fauci-has-no-regrets-about-advising-against\/\">he la<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/507728-fauci-has-no-regrets-about-advising-against\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">t<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/507728-fauci-has-no-regrets-about-advising-against\/\">er said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the pandemic, Fauci\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/24\/health\/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kept citing<\/a>\u00a0the estimate of 60\u201370 percent vaccination level for reaching herd immunity. Later, he claimed it would be \u201c70, 75 percent.\u201d And finally, \u201c75, 80, 85 percent.\u201d Fauci later admitted lying about that, as well, because \u201cpolls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine.\u201d But don\u2019t worry, none of it ever came to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, who despite his lofty contentions hasn\u2019t saved a single life from Covid, claimed anyone who criticizes him was criticizing \u201cscience\u201d \u2014 \u201cbecause I represent science.\u201d But the job of a public health bureaucrat is to relay information to elected officials and the public, not threaten the citizens with doom, or coax or trick them into acting in ways he prefers. Public health officials have trouble comprehending, or very much caring, about economic and moral tradeoffs of their policies. Which is one reason the braindead adulation of Fauci and \u201cscience\u201d \u2014 as if such a thing is undebatable or inalienable \u2014 has been disastrous.<\/p>\n<p>Americans did not need to be compelled to \u201cflatten the curve.\u201d\u00a0But soon, anyone who had the temerity to wander into the nonessential part of a local grocery store to buy vegetable seeds or demand that their kid be allowed to attend nursery school was accused of putting every American life in mortal danger.\u00a0Citizens were forced to comply with the diktats of mayors and governors, who often pointed to Fauci\u2019s wisdom as justification for shutting down churches and businesses. No legislatures. No votes. No questions. Those who spoke up were stifled and smeared by the media as members of a death cult \u2014 even as virtually every prediction offered by alleged experts proved to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci didn\u2019t singlehandedly create the distrust in public health institutions, which have been politicized for decades. His arrogance, however, epitomized the authoritarian mindset of the public health mandarin. As Fauci, the highest paid government worker in the country \u2014 is someone making $450,000 in base salary, and <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/08\/22\/anthony-fauci-retirement-pension-coronavirus-pandemic-government\/\">$350,000 pension<\/a>, really a \u201cpublic servant?\u201d \u2014 cashes in on his fame, the country is going to take decades to rebuild the trust he piddled away on his ego trip. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. 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