The longtime leader of the NIAID and principal architect of our country’s COVID-19 pandemic response, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who serves as Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, has finally announced his plans to retire.
HALLELUJAH!
According to a report from Politico, after “more than five decades of federal service under seven presidents, Anthony Fauci says he’s leaving by the end of President Joe Biden’s term.”
“We’re in a pattern now. If somebody says, ‘You’ll leave when we don’t have Covid anymore,’ then I will be 105. I think we’re going to be living with this,” Fauci told the publication in an interview.
I hope he will hurry up, to be honest. Throughout his long career, Fauci has seen criticism and failure, especially during the COVID pandemic. Fauci supported extensive government participation throughout the outbreak and promoted ineffective measures. Remember 15 days to slow the spread? Despite the fact that lockdowns have been shown to be unsuccessful, Fauci still supports them. A study from July 2020 that was based on data from 50 nations and was published in The Lancet indicated no decrease in COVID-related mortality from lockdowns. A few months later, another study that used data from 160 nations also came to the same conclusion. Since then, several studies have also come to similar results, including one published earlier this year by Johns Hopkins University.
Despite Fauci’s knowledge that masks don’t protect wearers from the virus, he served as the chief architect of the country’s COVID response, leading us to not only lock down schools and shut down the economy but also mask everyone in the country. Even though there was no proof that double masking worked, he pushed for it. No matter what he stated, it was obvious that science wasn’t controlling his behavior. Instead, he opted for political science, pushing for widespread immunizations, even for children who do not have a high COVID risk. His belief in universal vaccination caused him to frequently reposition the parameters of herd immunity. However, he had the audacity to assert that everyone who disagreed with him posed a threat because he stands for “science.”
Controversy has also followed Fauci about like a storm cloud. We’ve learned over the past year and a half that he lied about supporting gain-of-function research in Wuhan or that he was informed that COVID-19 might have been created artificially but argued for more than a year that it was a product of nature. Fauci did not shy away from the media even when we learned about his disgusting and medically unnecessary experiments on dogs.
If that’s the case, why does Dr. Fauci finally have an exit strategy? Fauci is apparently bracing for a barrage of criticism from Republicans, who are largely predicted to regain control of Congress in November. These critics are also likely to start a number of probes.
“They’re going to try and come after me, anyway. I mean, probably less so if I’m not in the job,” he admitted to Politico, though he claimed that he didn’t “make that a consideration in my career decision.”
There is no reason to believe that, given his track record.