{"id":1707430,"date":"2022-10-23T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707430"},"modified":"2022-10-23T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T11:20:44","slug":"steven-w-mosher-fauci-rewrites-history-claims-he-had-nothing-to-do-with-covid-school-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steven-w-mosher-fauci-rewrites-history-claims-he-had-nothing-to-do-with-covid-school-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven W. Mosher: Fauci Rewrites History, Claims He \u201cHad Nothing to Do With\u201d COVID School Closures"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fsteven-w-mosher-fauci-rewrites-history-claims-he-had-nothing-to-do-with-covid-school-closures%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=1707430&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>I must admit that I, like most Americans, am deathly tired of having to listen to \u2014 or in my case, write about \u2014 Dr. Anthony Fauci.\u00a0\u00a0It has been clear for some time that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/23\/dr-anthony-faucis-5-disastrous-covid-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his prescriptions<\/a>\u00a0for dealing with the pandemic were not only wrong, but made things worse, much worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s longest serving medical bureaucrat announced in August that he would be leaving at the end of the year.\u00a0\u00a0(In my view, he can\u2019t walk out the door soon enough.).\u00a0\u00a0But even as he prepares to exit public life\u2014hopefully forever\u2014he is attempting to rewrite history to exculpate himself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His latest claim is that he \u201cnothing to do\u201d with the nationwide school lockdowns that followed the outbreak of Covid in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0Nor, he says, is he in any way to blame for loss in learning among public school students that followed the switch to virtual learning.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/dr-fauci-prepares-exit-reflects-legacy-covid-decisions\/story?id=91553536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent interview<\/a>\u00a0with ABC News, not only did Fauci deny any responsibility for school closures, he went so far as to claim that he had repeatedly called upon schools to stay open as long as possible.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cNo one plays that clip,\u201d he insisted.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThey always come back and say \u2018Fauci was responsible for closing schools.\u2019 I had nothing to do [with it].\u00a0\u00a0I mean, let\u2019s get down to the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mifflin-school.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mifflin-school.jpg\" alt=\"In a recent interview, Fauci said he had \" nothing to do \/><\/a><figcaption>In a recent interview, Fauci said he had \u201cnothing to do\u201d with Covid-era school closures \u2014 insisting he even called for school to remain open as long as possible. The claims do not stand up to scrutiny. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">MediaNews Group via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-desantis-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ron-desantis-2.jpg\" alt=\"Not only did Fauci advocate for school closures, he publicly attacked politicians who pushed back at his agenda, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.\" class=\"wp-image-24334207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-desantis-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-desantis-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-desantis-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Not only did Fauci advocate for school closures, he publicly attacked politicians who pushed back at his agenda, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having closely followed the pronouncements of \u201cMr. Science\u201d over the past two years, I just can\u2019t let him get away with this whopper \u2014 particularly as he now warns of two new Covid omicron variants that are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/17\/dr-fauci-covid-omicron-subvariants-bq1-bq11-are-troublesome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cpretty troublesome\u201d and spreading quickly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The facts are that, from the very first, Fauci was calling for nationwide school closures.\u00a0\u00a0On March 12, 2020, for example,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?470338-1\/dr-fauci-press-briefing-coronavirus-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he said<\/a>, \u201cOne thing I do advise \u2026 [is] mitigation.\u00a0\u00a0And what was done when you close the schools is mitigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he did not hesitate to criticize those who questioned his prescriptions, as when he slammed Florida\u2019s governor Ron DeSantis on April 12 for merely remarking that he wanted to get schools back open as soon as possible.\u00a0\u00a0Fauci\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2020\/04\/fauci-kids-could-get-infected-if-florida-reopens-schools-1914021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded<\/a>\u00a0by saying that opening the schools would get children infected with the coronavirus.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf you have a situation where you don\u2019t have real good control over an outbreak and you allow children together, they will likely get infected.\u201d Fauci insisted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ostra-real-public-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ostra-real-public-school.jpg\" alt=\"Research has revealed that keeping kids in school \u2014 such as these in Sweden \u2014 did not dramatically impact covid cases for either students or teachers.\" class=\"wp-image-24334216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ostra-real-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ostra-real-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ostra-real-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Research has revealed that keeping kids in school \u2014 such as these in Sweden \u2014 did not dramatically impact covid cases for either students or teachers. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who is a medical doctor, said that the data coming in indicated that children were not at risk of severe COVID complications, Fauci warned: \u201cI think we better be careful that we\u2019re not cavalier, in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Few dared question the all-knowing Dr. Fauci in those days, but the proper response to his fearmongering about infections among children would have been: So what if children get infected?\u00a0\u00a0It was clear from the outset that their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/8-things-children-are-more-likely-to-die-from-than-covid-19-according-to-the-cdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">risk of dying<\/a>\u00a0from the China virus was effectively zero, far lower than their risk of dying from the seasonal flu, which itself is minuscule.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-paul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ron-paul.jpg\" alt=\"Fauci attacked Rand Paul (who&#039;s also a doctor) when the Kentucky Senator said that children are not heavily at risk from severe covid complications.\" class=\"wp-image-24334227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-paul.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-paul.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ron-paul.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fauci attacked Rand Paul (who\u2019s also a doctor) when the Kentucky Senator said that children are not heavily at risk from severe covid complications. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schools, which are hotbeds of transmission for the annual influenza, were not hotbeds of transmission for COVID.\u00a0\u00a0We know this because, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33406327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sweden did not close its schools<\/a>, this had \u201cno measurable effect on the numbers of cases of COVID-19 among children\u201d, nor did it produce any \u201cincreased risk for teachers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Typically for the wizened virus master, Fauci tries to have it both ways.\u00a0\u00a0Even as he denies having anything to do with school closures, he still claims that it was the right thing to do because it saved lives.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe idea that this virus doesn\u2019t afflict children is not so,\u201d he told ABC News.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve already lost close to 1,500 kids so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except, we haven\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/maurizio-di-giacobbe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/maurizio-di-giacobbe.jpg\" alt=\"Fauci erroneously claimed that some \" 1=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fauci erroneously claimed that some \u201c1,500 kids\u201d had died from COVID in the US based on data he failed to interpret correctly. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s number is based on a May 2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/study-cdc-cited-in-arguing-for-covid-19-vaccines-for-babies-being-updated_4545448.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>\u00a0claiming that COVID was responsible for 1,433 deaths among persons 19 and younger.\u00a0\u00a0Critics pointed out that the authors had wrongly counted hundreds who had died\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0COVID, but not\u00a0<em>from<\/em>\u00a0COVID.\u00a0\u00a0The authors admitted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.05.23.22275458v3.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their error<\/a>\u00a0the following month, but Fauci apparently didn\u2019t get the memo.<\/p>\n<p>But it is his continuing denials\u2014in the face of overwhelming evidence\u2014that the school closures caused any lasting harm that really raised my blood pressure.\u00a0\u00a0I have grandchildren who clearly suffered a learning loss.\u00a0\u00a0Besides the dramatic drop in reading, writing and arithmetic skills, the social isolation also harmed kids, and some now have mental health issues as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/trump-fauci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/trump-fauci.jpg\" alt=\"Fauci speaking with former Pres. Trump in March 2020; the two were often at odds during Trump&#039;s time in office over issues like school closures.\" class=\"wp-image-24334240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/trump-fauci.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/trump-fauci.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/trump-fauci.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fauci speaking with former Pres. Trump in March 2020; the two were often at odds during Trump\u2019s time in office over issues like school closures. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Fauci was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fauci-slammed-denying-school-lockdowns-irreparably-damaged-kids-no-remorse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked about<\/a>\u00a0whether school lockdowns were harmful,\u00a0\u201cparticularly for kids who couldn\u2019t go to school except remotely, that it\u2019s forever damaged them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci responded \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s forever irreparably damaged anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Tell that to the kids who went a year or more with virtually no schooling or social interaction at all, suffering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/education\/publication\/the-state-of-the-global-education-crisis-a-path-to-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">severe learning losses<\/a>\u00a0that will stunt their lives and even shorten their lifespans.<\/p>\n<p>Or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/08\/lockdowns-are-breaking-our-kids-and-the-damage-may-be-permanent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tell that<\/a>\u00a0to the kids who committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of\u00a0<em>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that I, like most Americans, am deathly tired of having to listen to \u2014 or in my case, write about \u2014 Dr. Anthony Fauci.\u00a0\u00a0It has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}