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Dr. Fauci and the Coronavirus Policy Blame Game | Opinion

With millions of Americans getting infected and over 800,000 reported COVID-19 deaths, most people now realize that Washington's pandemic policies failed. Lockdowns just postponed the inevitable while causing enormous collateral damage on cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, mental health, education and much else.

So, the blame game is in full swing. At a recent Senate hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci did not even attempt to defend his policies. Instead, he insisted that: "Everything that I have said has been in support of the CDC guidelines."

Dr. Fauci, as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has worked closely with the two CDC directors, Drs. Robert Redfield and Rochelle Walensky, throughout the pandemic, but he is now laying the responsibility on them. He did the same with his former boss, shortly after Dr. Francis Collins resigned as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Collins fiercely defended Fauci throughout the pandemic. In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration criticized Fauci's lockdown strategy, calling for focused protection of high-risk older people while letting children go to school and young adults live near-normal lives. A few days later, Collins—a geneticist with little public health experience—wrote an email to Fauci suggesting a "take down" of the declaration, and characterizing its Harvard, Oxford and Stanford authors as "fringe epidemiologists." Fauci agreed with his boss, but when asked about the incident at the recent Senate hearing, he responded that it "was an email from Dr. Collins to me." In other words, Fauci himself was just following orders.

As public health scientists and coauthors of the Great Barrington Declaration, we have been critical of the pandemic strategy championed by Drs. Collins, Redfield and Walensky. As human beings, we can only feel sympathy for the trio as Dr. Fauci seeks to deflect blame onto them. At the Senate hearing, Dr. Fauci did not engage in a substantive public health discussion to defend the pandemic strategy—as one might have expected from its principal architect and salesman. Understandably, politicians, journalists, academics and the public trusted Dr. Fauci. Why should they now shoulder the blame?

Dr. Fauci also defended himself by saying he has received death threats from "crazies." It is tragic that scientists have to deal with such threats, a testament to the lack of civil scientific discourse during the pandemic. But Fauci is not alone in that respect. The organized "take down" that he and Collins orchestrated, with their grave mischaracterization of focused protection as a let-it-rip strategy, resulted in death threats and racist attacks against the Great Barrington Declaration authors. As Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California, San Francisco pointed out, the NIH director's "job is to foster dialogue among scientists and acknowledge uncertainty. Instead, [Collins] attempted to suppress legitimate debate with petty, ad hominem attacks."

Strangely, the Senate is the only venue where Dr. Fauci has faced scientific scrutiny. That important role fell on Dr. Rand Paul, one of the few senators with medical training. America would have been better served if Dr. Fauci had engaged public health scientists with divergent views in civilized debates outside the political environment of the Senate chamber. If Dr. Fauci had embraced open and civil discussion, the public may have benefited from better pandemic policies, such as:

More accurate public health communication with less fearmongering, emphasizing that there is more than a thousandfold difference in COVID mortality risk between the old and the young.

Better-focused protection of older and other high-risk Americans, using specific, concrete standard public health measures proposed by the Great Barrington Declaration.

Open schools and universities with in-person teaching of all children and students.

Less collateral public health damage.

Less devastation on the poor and working class worldwide.

Rapidly conducted NIH/NIAID-funded randomized clinical trials of generic drugs to determine what works to treat COVID patients early. If as much effort had been poured into these evaluations as was devoted to vaccines, many lives might have been spared.

Recognizing the natural immunity of the COVID recovered and using them to protect nursing home residents and frail hospital patients.

More targeted vaccinations instead of vaccine passports, and a faster and more thorough evaluation of vaccine safety to increase public confidence in vaccines.

Unfortunately, sitting atop the world's largest stash of infectious disease research money, with an annual NIAID budget of over $6 billion, Dr. Fauci was able to command the nation's pandemic strategy with little opposition from other infectious disease scientists.

As the pandemic ends, as all pandemics do, the scientific community has much work to do to regain public trust. The collateral damage arising from the failures of pandemic management includes a broader distrust by the public of the academic community. While only a few scientists are responsible for the misguided pandemic strategy, all scientists—whether we are chemists, biologists, physicists, geologists, economists, sociologists, psychologists, public health historians, clinicians, epidemiologists or in some other field—now share a responsibility to restore trust in science and academia. The first step is to acknowledge the mistakes made.

https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-coronavirus-policy-blame-game-opinion-1673977?source=patrick.net

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-times-they-are-a-changin?source=patrick.net

New Jersey - New Jersey! - may drop school mask mandates.

But even that move isn’t the biggest sign of late that Team Apocalypse is finally starting to see how out of touch with reality it has become.

No, the biggest sign came from Britain, where the BBC wrote a story comparing vaccine mandates for health care workers to FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION.

I kid you not.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/biden-admin-to-change-definition/comments?source=patrick.net

in case any of you were in any danger of thinking that any of this was ever about anything but politics, watch as the brandon administration, desperate in its plummeting polls and menaced by the impending mid-term rout switches jerseys and joins team “we should not be counting those who went to the hospital for some reason other than covid and later tested positive.”

apparently, unable to get hospitalization down with their endless vaccine push, they are going to finally go with the one sure sure way to do it: change the way we count the numbers.

welcome to where the smart part of the class was in april. of 2020.

my goodness! what next, ending the relentless testing of people with no symptoms, the use of an overclocked PCR test that is manifestly unsuited to purpose?

because that sure would drop cases.

(and if they keep using PCR in hospitals, especially high Ct PCR, the number will remain inflated)

requiring covid as actual proximate cause of death and not just accepting trace findings and calling it all covid deaths?




this is a massive capitulation. it’s the outright admission that the metrics and measures they have used all along have been fraud or so close to fraud that you would not want to live off the difference.

they have systematically overcounted everything in a manner used for no other pathology. it has led to outlandish inflation of figures and of perceived threat. it was, from the very beginning, a conjured hobgoblin to scare you into compliance.

it ruined lives and livelihoods, abrogated freedoms, trampled rights, and broke brains. we’re going to be years digging out of this mess.

and now, because it suits the exigent needs of an impending election, it all gets memory holed?

sorry, but you do NOT get to do that.

this fact has been being screamed from rooftops for 2 long years. and it was ignored.

this behavior proves, beyond any doubt that they knew better and chose to do it wrong because it suited their needs.

and now their needs have changed and so they will change the numbers.

they know exactly what effect this will have. they just did not want that effect seen previously.

every last politician who pushed this should lose office. all of them.

https://dossier.substack.com/p/abandon-ship-politicians-seek-clean?source=patrick.net

Abandon ship: Politicians seek clean exit from sunk costs of COVID Mania
Midterms are right around the corner.

After two years of empowering every aspect of the authoritarian insanity that is COVID Mania, the American ruling class has started to awaken to the reality that citizens have had enough of the Safety Regime’s tyrannical edicts.

Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) announced this morning that New Jersey (not exactly MAGA country) will no longer require children to wear masks in school. These barbaric mask policies, which remain entirely unsupported by actual scientific evidence, has been in place in much of Safety Regime-compliant America for almost two years. ...

The pattern is obvious. The polling must be really bad for the restrictionists. This ruling class is indeed seeking the exits to protect their power, and they will attempt to do so without acknowledging that this two year campaign of destruction was all for nothing.

Never forget what the vaxxers did to millions of children.

https://notthebee.com/article/cnn-medical-analyst-leana-wen-wants-you-to-know-that-now-is-the-time-to-end-mask-mandates-as-democrat-states-are-starting-to-backtrack?source=patrick.net

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/12-countries-covid-restrictions-israel-green-pass/?source=patrick.net

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-reports-a-vaccine?source=patrick.net

Mainstream media reports a vaccine death
Wow. I didn't think it could ever happen. A mainstream media TV station reported that a person died from the vaccine. The coroner said so. Am I hallucinating or is this for real?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/gov-newsom-announces-end-statewide-mask-mandate-covid-deaths-spike-california/?source=patrick.net

Governor Gavin Newsom announced his statewide mask mandate will expire on February 15 for vaccinated individuals.

“Unvaccinated people will still need to wear masks indoors,” Newsom said.

There is no statewide vaccine passport system in California so there is no way to determine who is vaxxed or unvaxxed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-quietly-adds-language-warning-unfavorable-pre-clinical-clinical-or-safety-data-may?source=patrick.net

Pfizer Quietly Adds Language Warning That 'Unfavorable Pre-Clinical, Clinical Or Safety Data' May Impact Business

Patrick says

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/gov-newsom-announces-end-statewide-mask-mandate-covid-deaths-spike-california/?source=patrick.net

Governor Gavin Newsom announced his statewide mask mandate will expire on February 15 for vaccinated individuals.

“Unvaccinated people will still need to wear masks indoors,” Newsom said.

There is no statewide vaccine passport system in California so there is no way to determine who is vaxxed or unvaxxed.

In time for the Superbowl?

"Hey, it isn't our fault you believed all of our bullshit and were disabled from the vax. Roman Law says it's all caveat emptor, it's up to you to tell if it's a lie or not. We can lie, intimidate and deceive you all we want."

Yes, Trump is gone, and they coudn't just wind it down suddenly when Biden was "elected." Plus lots of upside to keeping it going. OK, people are getting tired of this shit, even a few have figured it out. Time to pivot.

I think it's a good thing that Trump is mostly out of the news.

Now Democrats are compelled to face the incompetence and corruption of Biden, and by extension, that of the whole woke-corporate-Pfizer edifice.

Patrick says

I think it's a good thing that Trump is mostly out of the news.

Now Democrats are compelled to face the incompetence and corruption of Biden, and by extension, that of the whole woke-corporate-Pfizer edifice.

Think so? More like "Because of the success of the vaxx and facemask mandates, Covid has been defeated and we can get back to normal." However, without Covid, the excuse for mail in voting goes away.

Sure, the Democrats will try to spin their failure as success. That is to be expected, and we have to hope that most people are not dumb enough to buy it. I don't see how having Trump in the media would help that.

It's definitely good news that the excuse for easy fraud via mail in ballots goes away.

I’m feeling a bit more relaxed.

The immediate aftermath of the glaring election fraud and seeing Biden with his phony inauguration felt like being in a failing elevator. It starts lurching, then, the lights go off. You hear the cable grinding and then snap, and you are in nauseating free fall.

It felt like that for a while because of the sense of powerless void against the fraud. Then, with Covid tyranny, the prospect that we could be dragged out of our home and vaccinated with a poison that would ruin our lives or kill us. The malignant pervasiveness of the events throughout the countries of the world didn’t help.

I am confident that Trump is still nominal Commander in Chief as far as the significant military is concerned. Otherwise, we would have been gulaged a while ago.

I also think there is a calculated, controlled timing event to the claw back. Stuff is revealed and released in bites, and repeated over and over for consumption, so as not to overwhelm the Overton window. It is very Madison Avenue, because advertising set out the principles for saturating information into the public over time, not all at once. The red pill is a series of small, significant red pills.

The election fraud stuff will be slowly and relentlessly repeated until it is accepted and hopefully reversed.

The guilty will be slowly and relentlessly pursued.

The Durham stuff will slowly come out but will proceed like a steam roller.

If things went any faster, the public would not be able to absorb it, so I am now OK with the timing as opposed to violent instant gratification. The Globalist blitzkrieg failed. At least that is what I hopium.

Yes, what has happpened is almost unbelievable. The federal police spying on a president elect, at the bidding of the defeated heir apparent, using a bogus opposition piece that was known to be a complete fabrication. This is SMERSH type stuff!

Fabricating a Russian collusion narrative with shadowy figures dropping phanthom hearsay stories, the MSM relentless in claiming it is true, the opposition party knowing it was bullshit, impeaching the upstart president twice!

And then the only thing that could defeat the president, crashing the economy - welcome COVID! The MSM again relentless in the fear campaign, corrupt bureaucrats and scientists conspiring to shut down the nation. Early treatment banned. Citizens murdered to achieve their ends.

Mail in ballots, ballot drop boxes, changing voting laws in violation of state constitutions because - COVID! Broken water pipe BS, videos of ballots emerging from under tables, resistance to audits, etc. etc.

God save the Republic!

Now I’m reading an op Ed in the Atlantic of all places calling for an end to all Covid restrictions. All of them! Now!
When a media source that’s best known for stroking Leftist egos goes at Narrative 1.0 like a bandsaw on a chicken, you know there’s something up. Most of the stuff this guy is saying would get you cancelled and banned three weeks ago. And he’s saying it to Leftists.
They are doing their utter best right now to reprogram the NPCS they programmed to be Branch Covidians. For some reason, they want people out of masks, out of their homes, and back to normal.
I’d like to think that this is just to score some political points for Biden and the Democrats come March 1st and his State of the Union address. The fifth-ranked Democrat said today that they were going to be doing away with all pandemic restrictions and learning to live with Covid. It can’t be more clear that they’re going whole hog on this Narrative 2.0.
But all Narratives are ultimately a lie. Even and perhaps especially when they resemble the truth. So what is the lie here?

Well, we know from the NIH documents (report from Ecohealth Alliance) that the Wuhan lab not only modified the bat coronavirus but also put the bat spike proteins on MERS, a virus with 30% mortality. That’s 100 times as lethal as Covid, and they made it airborne.

What if they want everyone “back to normal” so their timed release of the GMO death virus isn’t slowed by KN95 masks and social distancing?

I’ve always suspected that this Plandemic was a two part series. First was the weak virus and the vax primer. Second was the kill shot.

I'm still keeping my guard up.
It's not completely over yet, there maybe a sting in the tail or a new threat on the horizon.
I've lost so much respect and faith in my fellow man and woman and alphabet. They have cowered so easily and believed absolute nonsense so pathetically.
I've pretty much lost all confidence in most of society's institutions and won't trust them again.
I think the long term effects from the vaccines are yet to play out and a lot of the public aren't going to be so easily swayed to some new truth after the damage they have sustained.
There maybe a judicious releasing of information and actions behind the scenes by some Self Organizing Collective but until any such organization discloses itself publicly then I am still on alert. If there are hidden agents in the background working for the so called common good they won't receive a ticker tape parade from me if they ever do reveal themselves.
I'm now at the point that maybe more direct action would be necessary rather than this 5D chess inertness. Have you considered that this is also a counter psyop?
Allowing children to be jabbed was that final line in the sand for me.
If you do not have a people that can face the truth and if you are so callous as to allow your children to be sacrificed then you do not have a nation worth fighting for.
It seems to me whatever developments happen in the course of this decade America and the Western Empire will fall in the decade after.

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Shaman says

Now I’m reading an op Ed in the Atlantic of all places calling for an end to all Covid restrictions. All of them! Now!
When a media source that’s best known for stroking Leftist egos goes at Narrative 1.0 like a bandsaw on a chicken, you know there’s something up. Most of the stuff this guy is saying would get you cancelled and banned three weeks ago. And he’s saying it to Leftists.
They are doing their utter best right now to reprogram the NPCS they programmed to be Branch Covidians. For some reason, they want people out of masks, out of their homes, and back to normal.
I’d like to think that this is just to score some political points for Biden and the Democrats come March 1st and his State of the Union address. The fifth-ranked Democrat said today that they were going to be doing away with all pandemic restrictions and learning to live with Covid. It can’t be more clear that they’re going whole hog on this Narrative 2.0.
But all Narratives are ultimately a ...

You have to take into account that natural immunity will protect against many (even deadlier) variants, so there is already a natural barrier. Furthermore a deadly virus does not spread well unless it kills super slowly like hiv. I think this is purely to not lose all political support.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/suing-keep-masks-just-14-days-ago-new-york-gov-hochul-suddenly-lift-statewide-indoor-mask-mandate/?source=patrick.net

After Suing to Keep Masks Just 14 Days Ago, New York Gov. Hochul to Suddenly Lift Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate Tomorrow
By Cristina Laila
Published February 8, 2022 at 8:37pm

I have to believe that an order came from above to all the pathetic puppets in government: "Reverse, now!"

I also do not trust any of this in the least.

And I am extremely disappointed in many friends and relatives who instantly turned fascist the moment they got scared. I will find it impossible to have any respect for them in the future. I know for a fact they would load all dissenters onto the cattle cars the moment the government told them to.

What a relief. Now, there is only programmed starvation, currency collapse, fake alien invasions, weaponized smallpox, ebola, and other organ dissolving lab viruses, chemtrails, EMP space weapons, DEW space weapons reducing entire communities to fine powder and ash, HAARP causing weather disasters, volcanoes and hurricanes, and offshore drilling on fault lines combined with HAARP to trigger massive earthquakes&tsunamis, provoked civil or nuclear war, and 5G and 5G kill radiation.

I can sleep soundly now.

https://bherr.substack.com/p/about-face-does-not-justice?source=patrick.net

About Face Does NOT = Justice
You Don't Just Get To Walk The Other Way Whistling Dixie, Tyrants.

Patnet getting noticed on Zerohedge. I'll send you the routing info for the royalty checks shortly.

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"I started out 2022 by predicting that capitalism and common sense would catalyze a massive pivot in how the mainstream media reports on Covid."

A little late there, bro. Ths blog predicted the rather obvious pivot in 2021.

https://patrick.net/post/1343148/2021-12-29-and-the-frantic-roll-back-continues "

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/natural-immunity-and-other-conspiracy-theories-have-magically-become-fact-checked?source=patrick.net

Nice comment by Elliptico ;)

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/sweden-declares-the-pandemic-is-over?source=patrick.net

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/even-the-pandemics-wrongest-magazine/comments?source=patrick.net

Even the Pandemic’s Wrongest Magazine has has had enough
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Can’t make it up. After two years of constant hysteria, The Atlantic wants out.

Remember: the United States had its third-highest monthly Covid death total ever in January 2022. No one even argues anymore whether vaccines can stop infection or transmission. Sars-Cov-2 remains exactly as real a public crisis as it ever was.

So what exactly has changed? ...

Easier than admitting they were wrong all along, I guess.

https://gummibear737.substack.com/p/beware-the-covid-bait-and-switch?source=patrick.net

So basically, Democrats at the state level flinched due to direct pressure from their constituents.

At the federal level, not much has really changed in terms of the recommended measures or their attitude towards the pandemic.

There have also been big changes in the way measures are discussed in the media, but again this has followed, not driven, the changing tone of state Democrats.

Of particular note: they haven’t really admitted any faults in their previous analysis/reporting. All they are saying is “the science has changed”. ...

Only the science has not changed.

The position of the federal government, including the CDC and White House, remains the same which is to recommend masks and certain restrictions.

See, this is how easily they can change the narrative. They have no shame about ruining their credibility or fear that they might be fact-checked. They say “the science” and large swathes of the population obediently nod their heads.

Honestly, were it not for the federal system, we would probably not be seeing these changes in the US.

In places like Canada and other European Countries, the central government has a much larger role in dictating public health policy. Whatever the Prime Minister says, goes…which is why Boris Johnson can reverse all policy on Covid if he ever finds himself in a political pickle (Party-Gate). ...

If you compare the landscape today to one month ago it’s night and day, so I’m actually very optimistic seeing that political pressure is creating change before elections roll around. Though this doesn’t change the importance of upcoming elections nor the reasons for voting out the people responsible.

But!

Another wave is guaranteed to come. So long as we’re testing, we’ll have plenty of cases and deaths are inevitable. In fact, I’m not sure that some blue states don’t go back to restrictions the moment cases start to rise. Psychologically, I don’t think a lot of people on the left are in an endemic state of mind.

My point is that no progress made in the past month is irreversible. ...

Anyways, let’s hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

Remain vigilant and involved…this is not over by a long shot.

Keep on Honking!

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/86157?source=patrick.net

HEALTH / LAURA HOLLIS / FEBRUARY 10, 2022
It’s Not Science That Has Changed; It’s the Political Calculus
The biggest head-turner might well be Leana Wen’s blithe statement that “the science has changed.”

https://notthebee.com/article/jesse-kelly-started-a-thread-on-horrible-stories-related-to-covid-restrictions-and-the-replies-are-truly-heartbreaking?source=patrick.net

Maybe the roll back has something to do with stories like these. We must never forget the criminality of the oligarchy and their corporate-woke minions.

Since the very beginning, crazy people like me have passionately and loudly defended dignity, compassion, reason, and human rights above the screeching fear-mongering of politicians and the money-hungry boardrooms at CNN and Pfizer.

For two years, we insisted – rightly, as the data shows – that Covid was not nearly as big of a threat as the restrictions that stripped people of their humanity and the will to live. For two years, we insisted – rightly, as the data shows – that lockdowns and restrictions would not save lives.

It's time that those in power be held accountable for the wreckage they left in the wake of their hubris!

https://www.ntd.com/more-european-countries-roll-back-covid-19-restrictions_738210.html?source=patrick.net