Of course Fauci took the Fifth and I know the damning reason why
Despite being pardoned by President Biden for his COVID crimes, Anthony Fauci pled his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.He refused to answer a single question about his role in pandemic policy before the Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Senator Rand Paul, despite being immune from prosecution.I think I know why.Fauci was wrong about everything.From the lab origin of COVID-19 to the China travel ban, from foolish mandatory face masks to punishing lockdowns, his “legacy” is one misstep after another.His authoritarian edicts made things worse, much worse, for Americans than they otherwise would have been.Fauci had initially dismissed the Wuhan virus in January radio interviews as “a very, very low risk to the United States.” So it might have been, except for the incredible series of wrong calls that Fauci made in the months following.These began early in 2020, when President Trump wanted to impose a travel ban.
Dr.Fauci vigorously objected to the move, insisting that “travel bans don’t work.”And so planes from China carrying infected passengers continued to land in New York and other American cities.As COVID began its predictable spread in the US, Fauci was suddenly everywhere on the airwaves warning about how contagious and even lethal the coronavirus was.In March 2020, panicked by a pandemic model from the UK that predicted a viral apocalypse, he recommended that the entire country be shut down indefinitely.
He backed a shelter-in-place order for New York City and the closure of schools and “nonessential” small businesses.These moves denied tens of millions of children an education, put roughly 40 million people out of work, and nearly bankrupted the US economy.The model that Fauci relied upon turned out to be algorithmic garbage, but that didn’t stop America’s most famous virologist from committing every epidemiological sin in the book.There was early evidence from geriatric Italy that, while COVID merely gave the young the sniff...