Anthony Fauci testifies today. Let’s look back at some old postings and previously featured links here.
April 13, 2020: Shutdown decisions are made by people with no skin in the game; when would they ever decide to reopen? (“they will still have the same job at the same pay regardless of the length of the shutdown”)
July 30, 2020: “Fauci urges Americans to wear goggles for added COVID-19 protection” (NY Post)
February 2021: If coronascientists can’t predict the future, why do we call their predictions scientific?
February 2021: We love our children so much we will give them an investigational vaccine
early March 2021: “It’s Too Soon to Lift COVID Restrictions: Fauci” (US News)
March 2021: CDC Director: Impending Doom for the mostly-vaccinated U.S. (Fauci: “If we open up completely now, that is premature, given the level of infection” The likely reason for the uptick in cases, he said, is that states are opening up too quickly.)
August 2021: All will be well in the garden; There will be growth in the spring! (Dr. Fauci as Chance the Gardener)
June 2022: Science Personified runs but cannot hide from COVID-19 (Fauci guzzles Paxlovid)
January 2023: Could you please paint a portrait of me (you can cover every wall of your house with portraits of yourself and not be an “egomaniac”; unclear what the term is for someone who covers every wall of his/her/zir/their house with portraits of a golden retriever family member)
Fauci’s legacy was alive and well at Chicago’s main airport yesterday. Here’s a Faucist wearing an under-chin mask while traveling with at least one unmasked family member (who, if infected, can easily pass the infection on to the Faucist):
My personal favorite Fauci diary excerpt, highlighted in party by the New York Times:
“I went to a book party last night for Jonathan Karl’s new book about Trump” at Cafe Milano in Georgetown, reads the entry on Nov. 17, 2021. “I was totally swamped all night by people wanting to say hello, shake my hands, and take pictures with me. I could not get away from it. Although some people may think that this is great to have people treat you like Elvis Presley, but it was really very unnerving.”
After telling young nearly-invulnerable Americans that their #1 focus should be avoiding a respiratory virus (social distancing, masking, etc.), the vulnerable old guy voluntarily goes to jam-packed events and takes off his mask. More from the NYT:
“Chris and I went to a book party for our friend Ruth Marcus (Washington Post columnist)” at the home of David Bradley, former owner of The Atlantic, reads another entry. “Super A list at party: Senator Mark Warner, Kellyanne Conway, Andrea Mitchell, David Ignatius, David Frum, Zeke Emanuel, etc., etc.”
After being honored at a gala at the National Portrait Gallery (“it was the highest level of AAA list you could imagine in Washington DC”), he writes about hanging out with Venus and Serena Williams, Clive Davis and the celebrity chef Jose Andres. “We were invited to go across the street by Jose to his restaurant Zaytinya for after hours champagne.”
(Note that José Andrés later became core to Hamas’s military logistics in Gaza, cooking and serving food to the Palestinians via “World Central Kitchen” so that they could concentrate 100 percent of their time and energy on fighting to achieve river-to-the-sea liberation (i.e., the destruction of Israel and imposition of Hamas rule over a larger area).)
The quarterback weighs in on the situation…
Phil, thank you for the great summary of my many Scientific accomplishments! I can see that you too are a man of #Science. In light my treatment at this morning’s Congressional “hearing” where I was subjected to such incredible disrespect, I decided not to dignify those mental midgets with answers befitting of #Science. But, since you have been such a stalwart supporter of both me and Science, I thought I’d remind you and your readers of something special I wrote in 2012, which foreshadowed exactly what I would accomplish for the world in 2019:
“Consider this hypothetical scenario: an important gain-of-function experiment involving a virus with serious pandemic potential is performed in a well-regulated, world-class laboratory by experienced investigators, but the information from the experiment is then used by another scientist who does not have the same training and facilities and is not subject to the same regulations. In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?”
Thank you, Tony. That 2012 hypothetical was indeed absurd and couldn’t possibly have ever happened, but I am grateful that Scientists such as yourself are thinking about even the most outlandish possibilities.
Phil, you are mostly correct (#Science), but as I alluded to on yesterday’s blog post, when a Great Scientist like me can build upon that which has been accomplished by previous Great Ones (including my heroes Dr. Josef Mengele and Dr. Jonathan Gruber), the impact can be so much Greater and the seemingly absurd can become reality!
@Dr. F.
“man of #Science”…suss…more like “man of #Propaganda #TwitX”.
Were you also granted “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine, like Brad? Those Costco frames…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fDc3Yz-Ts
P.S. Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth (where truth is defined as whatever Fauci makes up). Bye now.
Phillip, I hope you have come across this data science report by Jeremy Howard, which says “Masks Work”. It has a reproducible data and sources. Did you do repeat the experiment or found flaws in the experiment, and published to say it otherwise ?
Senthil, please examine and find flaws in the following papers:
Wearing face masks as a potential source for inhalation and oral uptake of inanimate toxins – A scoping review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651323013623
Do physical measures such as hand-washing or wearing masks stop or slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?
https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD006207_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses
Reevaluating Mask Effectiveness: Insights From Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Trials
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11715561/
Not all diseases are propagated by small viruses and masks work sometimes, when the disease is spread by a sufficiently large bacteria or by contact with saliva. For example in overcrowded subway car during rush hour. I used to get sick when someone coughed in the subway car, with tests showing no viral infection. During coronavirus panic I had to wear inconvenient mask and did not get sick, although I did get infected with coronavirus on several occasions, but it felt much milder then the usual seasonal sickness. Eventually I decided to change jobs to avoid rush hour subway rides altogether, I hate wearing masks.
> Fauci urges Americans to wear goggles
OAG urges Americans not to wear beer goggles, or beer beer goggles. (Source: Ivy League frat parties.)
https://youtu.be/Jsci–s8J48
Having never known anyone who died because of the COVID policies, can only imagine the same fate of permanent lifetime investigations happening to any fed chairman raising rates.
Who watched the fauci and the senators spectacle today?
I didn’t watch because I was 100% sure that Fauci would dodge all questions. I didn’t expect him to invoke the 5th Amendment, though! I figured he and the Republican senators would talk past each other.
Heard the summary. If you have to plead the 5th, you guilty. Not sure of what he was accused of but he’s guilty of something. At the very least, bad glasses fashion sense.
His pleading the 5th today was very informative. He is clearly worried, as he should be, that the pardon doesn’t entirely protect him and that he is in legal jeopardy either civilly or by states. If someone doesn’t assassinate him first.