Posted on 01/13/2024 11:23:59 AM PST by John Semmens
In testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week Dr. Anthony Fauci dazzled the committee members with his arrogance and dissimulation.
In response to a question by committee chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) about the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)--a government agency that Fauci directed from 1984 to 2022--issuing grants for "gain-of-function" (i.e., how to make viruses more deadly) research on COVID, Fauci replied "I signed off on every foreign and domestic NIAID grant without reviewing any of the proposals. So, I have no specific knowledge concerning what type of research was funded."
Fauci went on to deny that he ever recommended masks or social distancing, saying "the notion that a piece of cloth across your face could stop a virus is nonsensical. Virus particles are smaller than the mesh of the fabric. Expecting these masks to protect you from viruses is like expecting a chain-link fence to keep mosquitoes out of your backyard. Likewise, there was no rational basis for the six-foot distance stickers and plastic barriers retailers were asked to install during the crisis. I would never have advised anything so foolish. I didn't oppose them because it is important for people's morale to feel they are doing something even if it is ineffectual."
Fauci also argued that his assertion that the vaccines were safe and effective "has been taken out of context. At the time that the vaccines became available the world was in the grip of a lockdown that was strangling the economy, driving small businesses into bankruptcy, retarding the education of minors, wrecking health care, and spurring mental depression that led to a spike in suicides. Compared to this devastation the toll taken by the vaccines rushed into widespread use was the lesser evil. It gave politicians the excuse they needed to reverse the greater disaster their lockdown orders had spawned."
"Despite a few missteps, I think there is no question that we are better off for having taken the actions we did than if we had stood by and let individuals and doctors pursue an undirected course of action," he added. "We achieved a degree of unity that would not have been reached had selfish individualism been allowed to prevail. The vast majority of the population followed the orders given to them by their government. Dissent was minimized. The well-being of the collective was sustained. America has been transformed."
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