Anthony Fauci is finally leaving his post after what seemed like an endless reign at the helm of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases should be a time for celebration. But it’s not. He has caused such tremendous damage throughout the past few years that it is almost impossible to comprehend.
Masks
- One of Fauci's biggest and most dramatic failings has been on masks.
- Early on, he famously opined on 60 Minutes that he was confident that masks didn't work, that they might only block "a droplet or two," but didn't provide the protection people thought they did
- He later claimed that his initial comments were made out of a desire to protect supply for healthcare workers
- Had he believed they worked but wanted to protect limited availabilities, he could have easily told those who asked to wear a mask without jeopardizing any large scale supply for hospital workers
Lockdowns
- Fauci continued to suggest that areas that reopened were engaging in extremely risky behavior by going against his dictates
- He claimed that Florida reopening in April 2021, months after vaccines had been available was "risky."
- California reported significantly higher rates of age-adjusted COVID mortality than Florida for all of the first and second quarters of 2021, with mask mandates and capacity limits for part of that time frame.
Children
- Fauci's most damaging recommendations were related to schools.
- He advocated closing schools and promoting school masking (in his capacity as a masking fanatic), saying children over 2 should be forced to mask in school if local officials decided it was necessary.
Vaccinations
- Fauci has a long and extensive track record of inaccurate predictions on the effectiveness of vaccines, including his prediction that reaching certain vaccination levels would eliminate the risk of future COVID surges, which was proven wrong.
- The tremendous amount of flip-flopping and backtracking to defend his prior ineptitude is justified by "the Science™" changing, but the CDC guidelines he continuously defended and promoted were never based on changing science, and never ran high-quality randomized controlled trials to justify their decision-making.
https://brownstone.org/articles/faucis-covid-disaster-a-summary/
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