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Is Fauci Pushing a Fraud?
“Doctor” Fauci, and I use that term loosely, is a serial fraudster. He is now a center-left establishment political hack wrapped in a lab coat. He must be confronted with his conspicuous silences, contrasted with his emphatic pronouncements. He owns the deaths of thousands, possibly tens of thousands by now. He owns permanent harm to millions of Americans already. So far, only Senator Rand Paul has called him and his Coronavirus cabal on a piece of their perfidy. . . not that I have any strong feelings on the matter.
Even Republican governors have collaborated in the latest chapter of the long scam. They were all silent on the danger of mass “protests.” Yet, they were all over churches and businesses. Their latest pronunciations entirely ignore or obscure the likely role of leftist mass gatherings in the name of “social justice.” Instead, these cowards point the finger at young adults freely associating in bars and on the water. Never mind that everybody knows the other health risks from the bar/party scene are significantly higher, but that never drove bar bans before.
The whole spin on young people is aimed at supporting BLM and the DNC by avoiding and obscuring the mass protest/riot events’ COVID-19 spike causality. Fraudster Fauci was silent, absolutely silent, when the massive riots started. He was as silent about that leftist project as he was about Gov. Killer Cuomo driving the deaths of thousands of vulnerable seniors with his criminally negligent order to nursing homes in March. Fauci is a serial fraudster at this point. He mouths only that which might help Joe Biden win, not objective “science,” let alone “public health.” Everybody knows.
Public health, as I have repeatedly laid out, is far broader than infectious diseases or epidemiology. Public health, by public health publications and official websites, includes prevention and early treatment of cancer, heart disease, and stroke, plus suicide, and overdose prevention. Fauci’s fatal formula for America ignored all those known medical, scientifically validated, quantifiable side-effects. My family doctor couldn’t scrape a small mole off my shoulder this morning without giving me the known side effects and getting my written acknowledgment and consent. Everybody knows what a real doctor must do before prescribing any course of treatment in America. Everybody knows.
Sen. Paul has informed the assembled dissemblers of the Coronavirus Task Force regarding the terrible harm to school children of denying them classroom instruction, plus the completely unsubstantiated U.S. “experts” claims being contradicted by all foreign country data. Once again, “Dr” Fauci is in the pocket of the left, here the teachers’ unions, who want to be paid but not to go back to the classroom. Everybody knows.
The BBC knows:
While governments are trying to encourage home schooling, it relies on a good computer and reliable internet connection to be able to access the school’s resources, and a quiet room to study. Home schooling also assumes that the parents themselves are sufficiently educated, and have enough time, to be able to help with the lessons. “This assumption unfortunately does not [always] hold, meaning many children’s academic development will grind to a halt during school closures, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, further widening the attainment gap,” says Armitage. A recent study from the UK found that children from richer families are spending about 30% more time on home learning than those from poorer families.
Never mind Atlanta’s street violence, what about the violence to the poorest, least advantaged Atlanta children, overwhelmingly people of color? Do these black lives not matter to Dr. Fauci or Senate Republican leaders?
A study released by two organizations states about 21,000 less students in English language arts and about 29,000 fewer in math are on track for grade-level proficiency than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools shifted to online classes.
In a June 16 news release, redefinED Atlanta and Learn4Life announced the release of a new study, “Quantifying the Impact of School Closures on Metro Atlanta Student Proficiency.” The report covers eight school districts: Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties and the cities of Atlanta, Decatur and Marietta.[. . .]
Achievement projections are more concerning for Black, Latinx and economically disadvantaged students in metro Atlanta. The study projects only three out of 10 historically underserved students will be on track to grade-level proficiency, which reverses recent gains.
The New York Times knows:
The New York Times reported an analysis from consulting group, McKinsey & Company showed that the average student could fall seven months behind in academics due to the coronavirus impact. Black and Hispanic students can experience even greater learning loss — equivalent to 10 months of learning loss for black children and nine months for Latino children, the study highlighted in the Times showed.
Even the Washington Post knows:
To the contrary, by failing to return children to school, we may actually be putting them at risk of other complications, many of them dire and long lasting. In a recent guidance document that reflects these concerns, the American Academy of Pediatrics “strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school.” In other words, it is time to get kids back into the classroom. Even as we proceed cautiously, we cannot reasonably ask children who are at the lowest risk of infection to sacrifice the most to protect the rest of us.
Senator (real Doctor) Rand Paul opened the door to what should be a massive campaign of truth bombs. Call the top cancer doctors. Call the top cardiologists. Call the top neurologists. Call the top behavioral health specialists to testify about suicide and overdoses. Give the American people the full truth and nothing but the truth. We can handle the truth. We deserve nothing less than the full story. Everybody knows.
Perhaps the best thing President Trump could do at this point is to issue an executive order binding all executive branch “scientists” and “doctors” to testify only according to peer-reviewed statistically significant evidence. No puffing up of personal resumes or mutual admiration credentialing. The experts have been so fallible as to have burned all credibility. Either they lay out peer-reviewed research with statistically significant findings or they simply say “Senator, we just do not know enough to offer you expert guidance at this point.” Make Fauci and Redford speak the truth that everybody knows.
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The answer is “what kind of doctor?” “Since when did doctors get to prescribe without informed consent on side effects?” “Since when did an infectious disease specialist get to ignore known cardiology, oncology, neurology, and psychiatry/mental health side effects? Cardiologist A says… Oncologist B says… Neurologist C says… Psychiatrist D says… So who the flip is Fauci to pretend he has any authority in their specialties?”
Yes! And not only that, but he overreaches. Who does he think he is, saying we should never shake hands ever again, or that the NFL needs to be shut down. I think he’s getting a little full of himself.
It is not just Fauci, but pretty much everybody in government and the media. From the very beginning this pandemic has been over hyped and poor decisions were made all around. I can forgive some of it, but closing down the schools should never have happened. In fact, it was quickly known that for most people this virus has as low mortality rate. The dramatic thing is how terribly lethal it is for the old or compromised.
Somewhere along the line the media convinced the public that if we shut everything down that we can prevent most people from getting it. Well that’s just not the case. I’m sorry to say but a super majority will have to get it before this is over. We should be doing everything we can to make sure that that supermajority is the young and healthy and as little of the old and vulnerable as possible. If you are younger than 55 and generally healthy, I think you have a duty to contract and recover from this virus.
You, I assume, are better at choosing “worthy players” in the DC Swamp. Republicans, as pointed out in the post, have been supine through this whole thing. What happened early, through negligence or malice, was the culling of the population of those most vulnerable, the elderly in group homes. I am not sure there was a purpose behind this. Public Health doctors are all bureaucrats. I have never known one, and I know a lot of them, that is not a Democrat. Jack Wennberg, a great epidemiologist and a real scientist, headed the team that designed Hillarycare. I arrived at Dartmouth just at the time the 1994 election spanked them severely. There were lots of long faces at that election.
The permanent bureaucracy in DC sees Trump, and his voters as the enemy. We are attempting to deny them the spoils of a life spent manipulating government for their own ends. Why do you think the three richest counties in the USA are the counties surrounding DC? Do you think that is an accident ?
Trump relies on his family far too much, especially Kushner and Ivanka. But who can he trust ? Ryan ? McConnell? McConnell threw away Sessions Senate seat by endorsing a corrupt bargain by the Governor and the Attorney General who was investigating him. Mo Brooks was a conservative Congressman who would have won that primary with a little support.
One after another the Swamp members like Mattis and Bolton have betrayed him. He has gained a few allies but the GOP is rotten through, The only thing worse is the Democrats.
Rand Paul looks to me like a possible 2014 candidate. I wish he was taller.
When we are done with the posturing and hysteria, we are going to end up with something like the cruise ship experience. About 20% of the population will get infected. Why that limit, I don’t know but it may be some of our nonspecific resistance to infection. Most deaths will be in elderly and those with ill health for other reasons. Hydroxychloroquine would help with early cases and possibly to prevent infection, as it does with malaria. Too bad it got politicized early. The vast majority of infections will be like the flu with a 0.2 % precent mortality. If this were not the election year and the rampant TDS, I doubt there would be this much agitation.
I’ve heard of at least two other similar situations. I have been worried about my aunt in Ohio who is also in a no-visitors-allowed home, and the isolation has been really getting to her. But I heard that last week she and another resident snuck out and went out to lunch. She might be 90, but she’s still got that rebellious spirit that I think she got from my grandmother.
You got that time machine ready? ;)
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I suspect you’re right.
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This made me smile. Go Aunt Drew!
I will match your “don’t wear a mask” and raise you by “Food pyramid.”
But I totally agree that Trump should have fired him on the spot for admitting the lie. You cannot have a “trusted government expert” lying to manipulate the public! (Well, at least one that publically admits to it).
Fail.
If I get sick I don’t want an ophthalmologist taking care of me – I’d definitely take the internist. Rand maybe smart but part time ophthalmology doesn’t prepare you to take care of anything other than your speciality. I believe we should almost certainly reopen K-12but adjust how we run the schools. Teachers change classrooms-not the kids. Anybody with a high risk parent/caregiver does remote. Extracurricular activities are a different ball of wax-especially sports. Colleges are also different-staff is older and much greater admixture of people during the day. We are probably going to need a hybrid system-some remote some in person in a more controlled system. Pray for a vaccine!
Uh…there is no common training shared by ophthalmologists and internists that might have some bearing on understanding of basic disease? Methinks that you don’t like the message so you need to diminish the authority of the messenger.
The best part was that, according to my cousin, she and the other lady split up as they made for the exits thinking that the management couldn’t catch both of them that way, and at least one of them could escape.
Love it! I’m glad they both escaped and got to enjoy their lunch. I hope I have that kind of spirit as I age.
My ancestry also, but nobody identifies me by that. (My son the tightwad, however…)
Rodin- there was a funny and insightful YouTube clip (I don’t have the link) in which an ObGyn in Northern Italy said she was being forced by circumstance to do ICU work (IIRC she was American by birth). This was during the worst of the outbreak in Italy. She said you better social distance or someone like me will have to intubation you- and it wasn’t in jest. Medical specialists by and large aren’t interchangeable. Some fields have a fair degree of overlap-others have very little. You wouldn’t want a civil engineer designing your airplane or Wall Street lawyer representing you in a criminal case.
Did they have an accomplice? Who drove? Or was there something in walking distance?
I didn’t get many more details than that, except that they escaped!
Never stopped Susan Rice-heck didn’t even slow her down.
I wasn’t arguing that medical specialty are interchangeable. Maybe I misread your comment, but I was reading it to say that you considered Rand Paul not credible on questions that seemed to me not to require a specialty.
The so-called experts have been wrong on all their projections.
The emphasis on ‘science’ has created sloppy thinking.
We have an epidemic of ignoring the data
Thank you for making my point. Fauci is a fraud. He falsely asserts that his experimental treatment for America, untested, not backed up by any peer reviewed research, represents “public health” advice, when he is aware that he is actually qualified in only a tiny sliver of public health. He may be assigned constructive knowledge of the likely risks: cancer undetected kills, heart disease undetected kills, a “medical” recommendation that causes catastrophic economic damage will cause suicide and overdose deaths to rise in a manner predictable from real quantitative studies of decades of data. He had a basic duty, from February onward, to consult with his peers in those areas of medicine so that they, together, could provide a medically ethical and responsible recommendation, with full informed consent.
He is not a fraud- this is his area of expertise but he isn’t clairvoyant & this is a NOVEL pandemic. The calumny directed towards him is, at best, irrational.
He lied, professionally, as a professional MD, when he said we didn’t have to wear masks because they could do more harm than good. He is a hypocrite and a shill.
AND he was responsible for funding the development of this Wuhan virus despite a stop order by the 0bama administration.
There is nothing novel about professional ethics. There is nothing novel about risk mitigation and informed consent. There is nothing novel about decades of data on heart disease, cancer, stroke, suicide, and overdose deaths. Those well-known side effects of Fauci’s prescription for America require no clairvoyance. They would, however, have gotten in the way of his little experiment and would have knocked him out of uncontested medical expert leadership.
Louis Farrakhan has joined the anti-Fauci club:
Farrakhan Accuses Fauci And Bill Gates Of Plotting To ‘Depopulate The Earth’ With Coronavirus Vaccine
Maybe he’d do a Ricochet podcast.
Get Larry Elder to emcee and I’ll listen.
Angelo Codevilla agrees Fauci is a fraud, for other reasons: