Daily Verse | Job 28:28
“And he said to man, ‘The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.'”
It’s Friday, my friends, and another work week comes to an end. Next up, the weekend.
Anthony Fauci, M.D., has been in the news for the last several days as thousands of his emails have been released through FOIA requests related to how he handled the Peking Lung Pox. We’ll get to those, but I have had an even more pressing question: Who is this guy?
Dr. Fauci is the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a position he’s held since 1984 under former president Ronald Reagan. He’s also the chief medical advisor to the president, a position established by president Trump in 2019 within the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
When the Chinese Bat Flu hit, Fauci just kind of showed up on television and I never really understood who he was. Did you know he’s the highest paid out of four million federal employees, making more than even the salary of the president of the United States?
He’s also an octogenarian, born in 1940.
While he seems to be a fairly accomplished man, his erratic and inexplicably inconsistent advice on the Peking Lung Pox over the last year has been baffling. Just on the subject of masking alone, he was against it before he was for it; one mask was fine, but then we needed to wear two of them; now we need to wear a mask even if we’re vaccinated.
It almost felt as if he didn’t know what the heck he was doing and was making it up on the spot. And maybe he was.
Here’s a few things we’ve learned through his emails.
- He ignored his own scientists who said COVID-19 might be engineered. NIH scientist Kristian Andersen told Fauci on January 31, 2020 that “On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered.”
- We knew this and so did Fauci: masks don’t work and he told people not to wear them. “Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”
- Fauci knew of the NIH’s ties to gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab—yet publicly denied it. Fauci repeatedly denied funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but discussed the dangerous experiments in emails from February 1, 2020. Josh Rogin of the Washington Post says, “The head of the funding, the head of the entire field, really, is Anthony Fauci. He’s the godfather of gain-of-function research as we know it. That, again, just what I said right there, is too hot for TV because people don’t want to think about the fact that our hero of the pandemic… might also have been connected to this research, which might also have been connected to the outbreak.”
- Fauci believed COVID would stop on its own without a vaccine. He said, “Social distancing is not really geared to wait for a vaccine… Close proximity of people will keep the R0 higher than 1 and even as high as 2 to 3. If we can get the R0 to less than 1, the epidemic will gradually decline and stop on its own without a vaccine.”
What we’re learning from his emails is very different from what Fauci said publicly. Worse, it’s seeming more and more plausible that Fauci participated in covering up his own culpability in the pandemic as he and others tried to shut down any investigations or questions about whether the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
An article in Vanity Fair reports that our own State Department suppressed any effort to investigate the origins of the virus.
As officials at the meeting discussed what they could share with the public, they were advised by Christopher Park, the director of the State Department’s Biological Policy Staff in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, not to say anything that would point to the U.S. government’s own role in gain-of-function research, according to documentation of the meeting obtained by Vanity Fair.
Some of the attendees were “absolutely floored,” said an official familiar with the proceedings. That someone in the U.S. government could “make an argument that is so nakedly against transparency, in light of the unfolding catastrophe, was…shocking and disturbing.”
And you know you’re dealing with desperate people when death threats are issued:
But for most of the past year, the lab-leak scenario was treated not simply as unlikely or even inaccurate but as morally out-of-bounds. In late March, former Centers for Disease Control director Robert Redfield received death threats from fellow scientists after telling CNN that he believed COVID-19 had originated in a lab. “I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” Redfield told Vanity Fair. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”
This stinks to high heaven and Fauci is right in the middle of it. Rand Paul was right to declare, “Told you” with respect to Fauci. While there are reports that exit plans for Fauci are being discussed, he won’t be prosecuted because he’s part of the protected class. Millions of people were sickened, hundreds of thousands died, children were kept out of school (perhaps a blessing in disguise), thousands of business are permanently closed, and we were all subjected to useless mask mandates and never-ending lockdowns that tested the resistance of American citizens.
Remember how we were told to follow the science? What we should’ve done is follow the money.
