Anthony Fauci is back in the news thanks to his literary efforts as a diarist (WSJ). This would good a time to flash back to this blog 3.5 years ago: Could you please paint a portrait of me. The meat of that entry is a quote from a 2022 New York Times article on the great man:
The walls in Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s home office are adorned with portraits of him, drawn and painted by some of his many fans. … Dr. Fauci seemed a little uncomfortable with people knowing about the pictures. He said that previously, when they were captured on camera, the “far right” attacked him as an “egomaniac.”
Is coronapanic behind us? A photo from earlier today taken in the Islamic Republic of Illinois, specifically the (Ken) Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (note the masked employee in orange lab coat):
From the same museum visit:
Note that the $125 million donation by Griffin was in 2019, prior to his escape to Florida.
Very loosely related…
> A photo from earlier today taken in the Islamic Republic of Illinois[…]
I get the sarcasm but why aren’t governments making the necessary cultural changes to promote all educated and wealthy people to have children? Instead of all the cynicism, I think that’s a good aim to strive for, look at this from 2024 in India:
https://x.com/AFpost/status/2063209643212517781
For reference, the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerela figure amongst the top materially wealthy states, with high rates of literacy compared to other states. The Swedes made policies before the 70s because they could see this problem before it happened.
Also, Neo Hippy, man, what’s with the masks and hijabs, dude? This will not stand, man, this aggression against…
Will never understand your obsession with people wearing masks or with Anthony Fauci. Firstly yeah, the masks are unlikely to really protect you from anything. So what? It makes people feel more comfortable when going out in public. Like wearing tattoos or hijabs it’s their personal choice they’re not forcing it on you anymore.
Also with Fauci, he was just the health official in the USA. There were far worse and draconian measures put into place in other countries. It’s not like he did things out of some personal egomania, he was just doing what globalists in all other countries also do. What does specifically incriminating him and choosing him for hatred mean?
@Anon Phil thinks/assumes that most of the people who wears masks are Democrats/Liberals. In general he does not like them and them having mask infuriates him.
I believe that Dr. G is fundamentally a man of Science and gets irritated when people inconvenience themselves by doing non-scientific things. However, he doesn’t realize that he’s mildly annoying himself and many times his audience by repeating the same thing.
IMO, a perfect man of Science is like the Buddha, in such perfect equilibrium with Nature that nothing incites any emotion in him, LOL!
> infuriates him
Yeah, no. I’m getting some “mild sarcasm” from him, bordering on OCD AF — not fury. Once I realized COVID-19 was a hoax, ignoring the A.I. generated piles of bodies chilling in reefer trucks across the U.S.A, well I started using my non-returnable pallet of masks as toilet paper and going to superspreader events and Girls Gone Wild video shoots — just like the 1%ers. For some of us sarcasm is the only way of dealing with this corny shitfest of a modern world. HTH
What is the correct level of interest in Dr. Fauci?
“It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable” in the world, he wrote after a “very flattering” front-page story in The Washington Post.
— https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/us/politics/fauci-in-private-diary-reflected-on-covids-origins-and-his-own-fame.html
My take is that Phil gives us the facts, lightly filtered, and lets us make our own conclusions.
> I started using my non-returnable pallet of masks as toilet paper
@OAG, if you have any masks left (unused, sealed in their original packaging, please) I’ll take ’em. They really turn the lit-chicks on. Makes me seem woke and smaart.
> They really turn the lit-chicks on. Makes me seem woke and smaart.
LOL! Man, if you have been following Dr. G’s post closely, you’d quickly realize that the modern chick is not turned on by anything short of the boldness of the “honorable” criminal!
I do hope, for consistency’s sake, that if you ever need to undergo surgery you will insist that no one in the operating room wear a mask. The unadulterated hatred of masks is right up there with anti-vaxxer. You’re in great company.
Anon: You might wish to read “Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery” (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4480558/ ), a 2015 paper out of the UK (where they do medicine right! As there are no co-pays, I think the NHS can be characterized as “Medicaid for All”): “overall there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that facemasks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination”.
Separately, note that the Sacrament of Fauci (COVID-19 vaccine) is available in the UK to those who “are aged 75 or over” (see https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/ ).
(When coronapanic began, I asked one of my helicopter students, an anesthesiologist, why she wouldn’t comply with the Maskachusetts governor’s orders to wear masks indoors and out. She responded, “Masks don’t make any difference even in the operating room. There is no way that the general public wearing simply cloth masks is going to have any effect on this virus.” I was surprised to learn about the operating room research, but she said that there was only weak evidence for masking the surgeon hovering over the open patient and no evidence at all for anyone else in the OR, including herself at the anesthesiology station, wearing a mask.)
Anon, as someone who has been called the smartest man in the world, I can tell from your comment that you are a super high-IQ person.
Here’s an entry from my diary, dated July 27:
Got up a little late because I ingested too much Punjab Live Rosin on July 25, then put Amarula cream in my half-caf when I got up at noon. Started drifting off…
Will there really be a “Morning”?
Is there such a thing as “Day”?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Men from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called “Morning” lies!
OK, that’s Emily Dickinson, my posthumously published feminist idol. But she just really captures what I’m thinking, you know?
P.S.
I wouldn’t complain if that cute new feminist chick two cubicles down in the call center wore *only* a mask — if you know what I’m sayin’.
Phil, thanks for highlighting my contributions to humanity! I am truly honored. As you know better than most, I tried really hard to follow the Science. But, the more I looked at things the more I realized that Barack Hussein Obama’s best friend and the Mastermind of Obamacare (The Great One Jonathan Gruber, who you know well from your close kinship at MIT) was spot-on when he noted the “stupidity of the American voter.” Jonathan’s great insight into Americans thus enabled me to realize my life-long dream of becoming a modern-day Josef Mengele, and yet be feted as a superhero! And, beyond that the watermelon-brained Joseph Robinette Biden would pardon me too! Only in America.
Thank you, Dr. Fauci, and congratulations on being dubbed “America’s Doctor” by our best Scientists: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor
In Asia people are supposed to wear masks if they are already sick, so they would not cough all over others. Common courtesy. Why are Western people not doing this? Only wearing masks when you are mentally deranged from social media consumption is not helpful.
ADF, so great to hear from you! And, please do carry on with the #Science. Bless you and all those I was able to reeducate about Science globally. I might also add to my earlier post that while the initial deaths and depravation caused by the virus which I helped fund and develop at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was amazingly rewarding, and would by itself have allowed me to realize my dream of becoming a modern-day Josef Mengele, the most satisfying portion of the deaths and depravation that I caused was the numerous secondary deaths and depravation, including elderly folks who died alone in nursing homes, children who were deprived of their educations (never to recover!) and on and on! But, folks like you who have continued to follow the #Science have also continued to bring me great satisfaction!
ADF: One reason might be that Westerners live in work-optional societies. They can simply stay home if they’re infected rather than trying to go out and be productive.
@Dr. F. only
Hey buddy, don’t let Phil and his big meanies get you down. The fame monster ain’t easy. I’m locally famous as “that long hair with Trump Derangement Disorder who always walks alone” in my MAGA-heavy ‘hood.
Made a trip to the optical department in Costco last week, when I realized I had the same frames as you, eww. (No offense). Don’t you dare get the Elton John “Kermit the Frog” model frames. Mine are currently being made in a sweatshop in China, hope they don’t corrode from the salt air on the boat over (or propagate any more invasive parasites to America).
The operating room mask thingy is supposed to catch the surgeon’s snot before it drips into the open wound. Sounds sciencey enough for me.
CCR: Your conjecture has the merit of common sense, but not every hypothesis can be confirmed correct by #Science. That’s what you’ll learn if you read the 2020 paper from the UK: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4480558/
Ethylene oxide sterilization facilities are a big controversy now too, Phil, if you want to switch up a little. Cancer if you do, sepsis/HIV/hepatitis if you don’t. “Science-based” politicians on both sides hard at work. In the end, maybe a little of both!
The above comment, “There were far worse and draconian measures put into place in other countries”, sums up what I think is the mainstream American attitude. Faucism was reasonable because the Chinese did an actual lockdown (no exceptions for gatherings at “essential” marijuana and alcohol stores) and American Covidcrats did the best that they could have done with the information available at the time. The information available at the time of school closures, however, was that SARS-CoV-2 was killing Americans at a median age of roughly 80 (ended up being 82 in Maskachusetts). Thus it is unclear why closing schools for 8-year-olds was a more obvious thing to do than telling 80-year-olds to hide (stay home; get groceries delivered; don’t go into an essential alcohol or marijuana store even if wearing a saliva-soaked face rag).
In terms of the effects on children, I’m not sure that it is true that other countries had “far worse and draconian measures”. Other than the U.S., what countries closed schools for 18 months? (of course, Florida didn’t do an 18-month closure, but many of our big cities closed for 12-18 months).
7/29/2026
Dear Diary,
Four hour power outage last night at 8 PM, no whole house Cybertruck. 🙁 Got to sleep a little earlier. Woke up with the sun on the horizon and Fauci on my mind.
Faucism, Covidcrats, Maskachusetts…Phil should do a glossary like RMS:
https://stallman.org/glossary.html
Phil’s blog is getting as complicated to read as A Clockwork Orange (a book about similar subjects). PhilSat, ha, ha.
https://thischickreads.com/nadsat-language-glossary/
Marijuana dispensaries and liquor stores (“alcohol store”, lol) are essential, trust me, when you are addicted. Actually enjoy being in a dispensary and the heavy weed odour compared with the gross mashup of humanity in the Costly-co bazaar that smells like armpit. Now I’m being like Phil, ha, ha. When the Neo Commies get suicide booths legalized, hope they have the same shopping experience as weed dispensaries.
Note to self, read more Stallman political notes to offset Phil’s propaganda. Don’t forget to practice some self-worship today, like Dr. F., NH.