ExpressLane (07-25-2021), Hermes Thoth (07-25-2021), Stretch (07-25-2021)
As federal officials push for everyone to get vaccinated and avoid infection by the delta variant, they cannot afford to rely on those who have forfeited the public trust. For that reason, it is time to fire Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci’s flexibility with the truth surfaced early in the COVID-19 pandemic when he first advised against mask-wearing as a precaution against the coronavirus. He later flip-flopped, calling for mandatory mask-wearing, and he had the temerity to become irritated with those who questioned his thinking. “We need to put that nonsense behind us about ‘well, they keep changing their minds,’” Fauci dismissively said of his own abrupt reversal. But it is not "nonsense" — it is both reasonable and necessary to demand answers when supposed experts change their minds abruptly about a fundamental and critical issue.
Fauci later admitted that he fudged the numbers on what percentage of the public would have to get vaccinated or infected before the country attained herd immunity. For months, he pinned that number at 60% to 70% in televised appearances. Then in December, he began moving the goalposts to 75%, then from 75% to 80%. Asked to justify this shift, Fauci said it was based on his “gut feeling” of what the country was ready to hear.
These two instances establish a pattern of behavior showing that Fauci believes he is justified in the paternalistic duping of the public for what he believes to be the greater good. Even this might be understandable, except that he has also been demonstrably untruthful in cases that have nothing to do with the common good.
Emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that Fauci was a willing participant in a campaign to cover up the possibility that COVID-19 had originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak wrote to Fauci on April 18, 2020. Daszak would go on to organize a letter from 27 scientists from around the world “strongly” condemning the “conspiracy theories” suggesting that the coronavirus came from a Chinese lab.
Both Daszak and his collaborator Fauci had a significant personal stake in shutting down the debate about where COVID-19 came from.
In 2014, Fauci’s NIAID awarded Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance a $3.7 million grant to study “the risk of future coronavirus emergence” in China. From that grant, $600,000 made it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the institution from which it is now believed that the coronavirus probably trickled out into the world.
For the longest time, Fauci adamantly insisted that there is no possibility that the research he funded had anything to do with the pandemic. But top health and science officials at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing clearly disagreed. In 2017, after these officials attended a conference in which research funded by the U.S. government into coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute was presented, they asked the Chinese government for permission to inspect the lab. These officials later reported back that the lab suffered from “a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.” The lab in Wuhan was not an ideal partner for the U.S. government or any other institution that purports to endorse responsible scientific discovery.
We still do not know for sure where COVID-19 originated. What we do know is that a powerful and highly connected group of scientists tried to shut down investigations relevant to that debate. We know that Fauci is personally invested as a co-conspirator in that effort and that he has a history of bending the truth to suit his needs.
He cannot be trusted on COVID-19. It is time for him to go.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...als/fire-fauci
ExpressLane (07-25-2021), Hermes Thoth (07-25-2021), Stretch (07-25-2021)
If you poor Trump supporting fuck-heads were not such a danger to our Republic, you would be laughable. But you are a danger to our nation...so the laughing has to be done in a way that takes that into account.
That is why I use the gif I use as a response. It laughs at you pathetic, gullible morons...but has an aside story just about every American knows.
Just wanted to mention that before telling you to...
...go fuck yourself.
Dr. Fauci has done more on behalf of this country than all you fucking right-wing assholes heaped into one pile of shit combined.
ON HIS WORST DAY, JOE BIDEN IS A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP WAS ON HIS BEST DAY!
evince (07-25-2021), signalmankenneth (07-25-2021), Trumpet (07-25-2021)
ExpressLane (07-25-2021)
Emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that Fauci was a willing participant in a campaign to cover up the possibility that COVID-19 had originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak wrote to Fauci on April 18, 2020. Daszak would go on to organize a letter from 27 scientists from around the world “strongly” condemning the “conspiracy theories” suggesting that the coronavirus came from a Chinese lab.
Both Daszak and his collaborator Fauci had a significant personal stake in shutting down the debate about where COVID-19 came from.
In 2014, Fauci’s NIAID awarded Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance a $3.7 million grant to study “the risk of future coronavirus emergence” in China. From that grant, $600,000 made it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the institution from which it is now believed that the coronavirus probably trickled out into the world.
For the longest time, Fauci adamantly insisted that there is no possibility that the research he funded had anything to do with the pandemic. But top health and science officials at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing clearly disagreed.
anonymoose (07-25-2021)
Lying about masks [Fauci’s first version was actually the truth] and grabbing random Herd Immunity numbers out of the air is one thing.
Taking part in the lie that the lab origin theory is a ‘conspiracy theory’ is another. That lie suggests culpability. Recently, criminal investigations have been started on way less evidence or fabricated evidence.
Since I suspect the statement has a very high probability of being true I’ll go ahead and say it: the CCP virus escaped from the CCP lab. It’s just ‘too problematic’ to make that public now—if ever. For one, it involves China and since so much of our government and institutions are compromised or have conflicts of interest with the Chinese government the truth may never be allowed to see the light of day.
For another, it would implicate our own government in creating the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
ExpressLane (07-25-2021)
If only Fauci had sucked up to Trump last year, like all good Trumpers do, instead of keeping a professional distance he would not be reviled this year.
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
christiefan915 (07-25-2021), Frank Apisa (07-25-2021)
^ the main point is Fauci has no credibility .
Then add in the coverup and lies. I know a lot of libs -they dont like him either.. Biden needs to cut him loose
ExpressLane (07-25-2021)
ExpressLane (07-25-2021)
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
ExpressLane (07-25-2021)
christiefan915 (07-25-2021), Frank Apisa (07-25-2021), martin (07-25-2021)
christiefan915 (07-25-2021)
Naturally you wouldn't be surprised. It would confirm your fantasy. But if he does resign, a man in his eighties by then, it won't be because the public disapproves of him.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1486421.html
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
You knew that when Trump kept someone qualified and serious in that job, like Fauci, rather than some goofball or family member as he did with many things, he understood the pandemic problem was serious.
That's an admission. A far cry from the BS he was personally delivering to his hoards of yokels trying to kneecap Fauci in bubble public opinion.
Fauci needs to either go before a firing squad or get strung up in public.
Either way works for me, sorta like like Pfizer or Moderna.
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