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So much to be outraged about, so little time. You would have thought that we’re still close enough on the historical timeline to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially here in the United States, that the news from Friday would have resulted in atomic-level public reaction.
Due to the other outrage, the banana republic court verdict in lower Manhattan that was micromanaged and orchestrated by Joe Biden donor and trial judge Juan Merchan, the news about the pandemic culpability of Dr. Anthony Fauci barely registered a blip.
The top medical advisor in the White House in 2019-2023 at the height of the COVID outbreak, Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified in January in a closed-door session of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The transcript of that hearing was released last Friday.
In short, the response to the pandemic – the masks, the social distancing, the separation of families, the 6-foot spacing signs graffitied all across the country, the plexiglass walls erected to wall people off from each other, the closed schools, all of it was bovine excrement. All of it. There wasn’t a lick of science behind any of the policy. It was Anthony Fauci and his team making it up as they went along, and Fauci relishing the power trip in which he found himself.
In the National Review’s write-up of the release of the transcript, here is Dr. Fauci just nonchalantly admitting that masking, in this case, child masking that caused so much damage to an entire generation of child development, wasn’t based in any scientific data. Fauci said this.
During the second day of his testimony, Fauci made a similar concession about the lack of scientific evidence to support masking children to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“Do you recall reviewing any studies or data supporting masking for children?” a staffer asked Fauci.
“You know, I might have, Mitch, but I don’t recall specifically that I did. I might have,” Fauci replied.
Keep in mind, this was Anthony Fauci on 60 Minutes before the pandemic really took hold, on the efficaciousness of masking.
It turned into masking, double masking, masking alone indoors, masking alone in your car, masking children as young as two-years old, and this policy lasted for over two years.
On social distancing, here’s the part of the transcript that the reports.
“It sort of just appeared, that six feet is going to be the distance,” Fauci testified to Congress in a January closed-door hearing, according to a transcribed interview released Friday. Fauci characterized the recommendation as “an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data.”
Francis S. Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, also privately testified to Congress in January that he was not aware of evidence behind the social distancing recommendation, according to a transcript released in May.
Four years later, visible reminders of the six-foot rule remain with us, particularly in cities that rushed to adopt the CDC’s guidelines hoping to protect residents and keep businesses open. D.C. is dotted with signs in stores and schools — even on sidewalks or in government buildings — urging people to stand six feet apart.
My step-son was a freshman in high school in 2020 when the pandemic arrived. One of the last school functions he was able to participate in was the Chinese New Year Parade in downtown San Francisco. He played trumpet in marching band, and in the back of our minds, we knew this flu thing was out there and just starting to pop up in the States in Early February, but we went on the trip anyway. The crowd was one-third its normal size, and little did we know what was about to happen. School was shut down a few weeks later and moved to remote learning for the rest of the school year, and for the first half of his sophomore year.
When school did reopen to in-class learning, double masking was strongly recommended, and band, of any kind, was not immediately available.
