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The ‘Liberation’ of Dr. Fauci
Dr. Fauci said last week that it is “liberating” to discuss facts behind the Coronavirus without fear of “repercussions.”
Exactly what repercussions did he fear? Fear for his life, or the safety of his family? Fear of being locked up, or was it fear of defending indefensible positions regarding masks, lockdowns, or the use of common drugs?
Maybe it was fear of losing his phony-baloney job and giving up the spotlight?
It seems to me that he would have enhanced his legacy by being martyred for defending public health against the snares of the devil along with thousands of doctors with contrary opinions. He should have joined the other brave “loyalists” who resigned in quiet “protest” a week before the President’s term of office was over.
I suppose there is no way to stem the pandemic of vanity.
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Fauci may feel ‘liberated’ but his liberation may depend on his willingness not to cross the talking points of the Biden Administration too much, or risk the wrath of the media, which held him up for the past year as an island of sanity within the Trump craziness.
National Review’s been getting dinged on the other thread, but just to give them some up-twinkles on this topic, Ramesh Ponnuru noted last Thursday that after Fauci blew up the Biden talking points given to CNN’s M.J. Lee, that the Trump Administration had no plans for distributing COVID vaccine, Lee responded with this tweet:
You can say this is simply a miffed reporter lashing out at being exposed as a shill for the new administration, but a few more incidents where Fauci forces walk-backs by the Biden people and their supportive reporters, and Lee won’t be alone in labeling the doctor as “a holdover from the Trump administration“, with all the negative connotations that’s supposed to create among their viewers and readers.
Fauci isn’t a holdover from the Trump Administration. He’s a freaking holdover from the Reagan Administration.
Dr. “Death” Fauci should fear for his soul. His shilling for Big Pharma over the years has caused the deaths of millions. There has been a 40 year battle between expensive and ineffective vaccines against cheap and effective antiviral treatments. Fauci has been on the Big Pharma side the whole time. I hope he enjoys his 30 pieces of silver.
My understanding is that Fauci is not an appointed guy. He is career civil servant and hence more or less unfire-able. So he shouldn’t have feared for his job. Being kept out of the limelight? That’s an entirely different thing. He certainly seems to enjoy being the center of attention.
Why anyone gives credence to anything he says is beyond me. He has freely admitted on multiple occasions that he lies to the public – about the science- in order to manipulate the public into doing what he wants. Follow the science. Yeah. Right. If Fauci said it’s bright during the daytime and dark at night I’d be going to the window to check.
Fauci is also a blood-soaked eugenicist.
Congenital liar Fauci is also the Highest Paid Employee In The Entire U.S. Federal Government
Which really says something about our government, doesn’t it?
I suspect you’re right, in which case why might an 80 year old person who is making over $400,000 per year and has been in the employ of the federal government for more than 50 years fear losing his job? It can’t be a fear of financial insecurity. It can’t be fear of losing future career opportunities. It must be fear of losing the spotlight.
I am a little surprised that the highest paid employee of the federal government is paid “only” slightly more than $400,000 per year. Many state governments have employees being paid at or near $1,000,000 per year – generally college football coaches, university presidents, and directors of large university medical systems (hospitals).
Since medical doctors in at least some specialties can earn incomes in the $500,000 – $1,000,000 per year range, it does say something that jobs in the federal government are sufficiently rewarding in other ways (low pressure? job security? retirement benefits? limited responsibilities?) that the federal government doesn’t have to pay any of them all that much money to get them to work for the federal government.
Pension, pension, retiree medical care.
I want Dr. Doom Fauci to be liberated by the truth and answer all of the questions posed by Fox News investigator Steve Hilton about what he knows, and when did he know it.
Did Fauci fund the coronavirus…..?
Heck, I can’t figure out why so many members of Congress stick around into their 80s. Wouldn’t you want to retire? What sort of impulse keeps Nancy in her place? Love of power? Doesn’t that ever fade?
Power and money. These days, it’s mostly power. No way would they voluntarily yield any of their power.
The Daily Wire has more information, relying in turn on the New York Times. I have read both. As it comes out in the NYT interview, Dr. Fauci considers any disagreement with the “tone” he wanted to portray or with his desired policy implementations, and receiving any input other than his, to be “contradiction.” Dr. Fauci believes that everything Dr. Fauci said was “science” and that any counter data, difference in tone, or difference in policy recommendations is “contradicting science.” But I think that may be influenced by the NYT interviewer.
The primary difference between Dr. Fauci and President Trump seemed to be that Dr. Fauci wanted everything about the virus to be presented in a very pessimistic, negative, and downbeat tone, while President Trump wanted to present things with a positive spin. That’s more of a difference in viewpoint than a “contradiction” on science. But Dr. Fauci notes in the interview transcript that President Trump’s comments to Dr. Fauci were pretty non-specific. The NYT interviewer does much of the work of trying to enlarge the differences, and of trying to put onto President Trump blame for outside actors who lashed out at Dr. Fauci. I think had the interview been done by someone who was not as hostile toward President Trump as the NYT interviewer obviously was, there would not be nearly as much evidence of hostility between Dr. Fauci and President Trump as we are seeing reported today.
Some years ago I was fascinated by a discussion I had with a then-coworker. He was confident that no government bureaucrat would do anything untoward in a particular matter because the bureaucrat couldn’t make money off of it. The possibility that the bureaucrat found reward in power rather than money did not enter my co-worker’s thoughts as a possibility.
I thought the civil service had mandatory retirement ages.
Fauci did not spring out of the hidden recesses of the federal bureaucracy leaving his deep and penetrating research to enlighten us on how to combat this Chinese sourced infection but has a long and abysmal history of predicative failure and mishandling of novel disease outbreaks usually from exotic subcultures: Africa, Asia and the Castro.
Fauci aside from being inept in predicting infection and mortality rates has consistently aligned himself with the least effective and most expensive therapeutic measures to the benefit of Pharmaceutical concerns while dismissing more effective and less expensive measures to combat outbreaks.
Fear of being fired for incompetence.
And this, not to mention the outrageous salary he was getting – $400k+, the highest paid Federal employee:
https://nypost.com/2021/01/26/fauci-reportedly-the-highest-paid-federal-employee-in-us/
Dr. Fauci has been liberated from any questions from his boss.
He’s always been liberated from considering non medical consequences of his recommendations.
Or even the medical ones.
Think about how very valuable Fauci is to the world’s second richest man. If as the world’s second richest man, your plans for the next decade include having it be “The decade of vaccines” with a contact tracing and total surveillance program to come about as the step children of the virus and its vaccine program, Fauci is your man.
It should also be pointed out that Fauci holds the 2015 patent on the very glyco protein that is utilized by this mRNA vaccine to simulate its somewhat working in the manner a vaccine would work. How cool is that – that a pandemic came about a mere five years after securing the patent on one of the needed components for yourself?
Four generations ago, such a situation might end up with catcalls of “conflict of interest” but that no longer exists in our society.
What adds fuel to my fiery enthusiasm for stating that Fauci enjoyed a serious conflict of interest by holding a patent on one of the features of the vaccine, at the same time he developed which protocols for COVID should come about? It is worth noting that Fauci withheld the various cheap effective remedies available across the world from the American public. Yes, while middle class America went belly up, while seniors were prevented from having family around them, this monster withheld actual remedies!
Those of us familiar with US Civil Code and rules and regs regarding vaccines are aware that if there were such remedies available under his leadership, it would not be possible to secure either emergency authorization for the vaccine’s use, and definitely would not be possible to secure the coming fed mandate.
How many people died due to this man and his puppet master, Bill Gates?