“Press is going wild with me,” Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote in his diary on March 22, 2020, days after he had helped pressure the country into shutting down in the name of COVID.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee just released 1,141 pages of his near-daily entries from the COVID era, days before he appeared yesterday. They read like the diary of a nine year old girl.
Weeks later, in early April 2020, 22 million Americans were newly out of work thanks in large part to Fauci. Yet he was still focused on himself: “Intense publicity about me continues with stories of grandmothers who have crushes on me.”
He noted a “beautiful profile” from the BBC. He logged the online petitions to vote him People’s Sexiest Man Alive. He made 641 entries cataloging his own press coverage, and beamed over having to turn down Dancing with the Stars.
“The situation with my national and international fame,” he wrote, “is explosive and really unimaginable.”
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel kept calling, Fauci wrote, wanting to come to dinner “to explain to me how naive I am and not fully appreciating just how much money I can get from book deals, films and speeches.”
His narcissism and fixation on money and fame is one thing. The lies are entirely another.
On November 17, 2021, after spending hours in a crowded room with fully-vaccinated guests, Fauci lamented, “I’m well aware that many people who are vaccinated are still getting infected and that worried me a lot.”
Yet at the same time he insisted that vaccinated people cannot spread the virus… and helped to censor people who suggested otherwise.
The people who said natural immunity was real were treated as cranks.
“Trust the science” became the catchphrase of the era, and anyone who doubted masks was dismissed as “anti-science.”
The problem was that “the science” kept changing its mind.
In March 2020, Fauci told 60 Minutes there was “no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Within weeks his guidance reversed, and masks went from pointless to mandatory.
By January 2021, Fauci was on national television telling Americans that wearing two masks “just makes common sense.”
Then actual science arrived. In 2023, Cochrane, medicine’s gold standard, analyzed the masking data and found they didn’t make any conclusive difference.
Even the six-foot “social distancing” rule turned out to be made up; Fauci admitted to Congress that it “sort of just appeared.”
The people who were against school closures were accused of wanting teachers to die. Then the nation’s report card showed nine-year-olds posting the first math decline in history.
The people who suggested COVID escaped the Wuhan lab, the one Fauci’s own institute helped fund through a New York nonprofit, had their posts deleted from Facebook until 2021. Today this is considered the most plausible origin theory.
Of course, Fauci had sworn to Congress that his institute “has never funded nor does it fund now gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” Pressed by Paul to retract it in July 2021, he answered, “I have never lied before Congress.”
Three months later the NIH informed Congress that it had, in fact, funded gain of function research at that very lab.
On Wednesday, Paul asked Fauci the same questions under oath— and the man who had never lied to Congress pleaded the Fifth rather than answer them. His own explanation was that anything he said might be used to prosecute him for perjury.
Yet the questions that mattered most were never allowed to be asked.
When did being unvaccinated turn you into a threat to society? Nobody has ever been called a murderer for skipping a flu shot, which kills tens of thousands of Americans in a bad year.
But by late 2021 your neighbor’s health had become your personal responsibility, and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was joking that unvaccinated patients shouldn’t get ICU beds: “Rest in peace, wheezy.”
When did it become an essential social value to put something into your own body to protect somebody else? Never before had Washington made a vaccine a condition of employment for tens of millions of workers, let alone a shot that didn’t stop transmission.
And when did voters approve any of it? Closing the schools, shutting down businesses, masking toddlers, firing the unvaccinated: none of it was ever on a ballot. Unelected bureaucrats wrote the rules of daily life… which seems strange for the most advanced representative democracy in the world.
The whole premise was flawed: they treated COVID as the worst thing ever that must be stopped at any cost.
In reality the risk was concentrated among the very old and the chronically unhealthy, and for anyone under 60 the fatality rate was a few hundredths of a percent.
Yet they torched the economy, the schools, and much of the social fabric… all because of a flawed premise.
Amazingly, no one was fired. No one was indicted. And no one apologized.
Republican Senators spent Wednesday’s hearing reading him the rap sheet.
Rand Paul told him the lockdowns “could never have been inflicted without you aiding and abetting the crime.”
Senator Rick Scott asked whether he ever told anyone to destroy records.
Fauci pleaded the Fifth to all of it.
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, at least admitted the obvious: the lab leak got dismissed as a “right-wing” theory, and he himself may have been “blinded by the partisan idea that maybe the truth might come from a side that’s different than you are.”
The other Democrats spent the day consoling Fauci and praising his heroics. Extraordinary. Years later, despite overwhelming evidence of deceit, narcissism, and terrible decisions, they still treat the guy like he’s the second coming of Jonas Salk.
One thing that was said over and over in yesterday’s hearing is that “another pandemic is coming.” Great. They’re prepping us already for the lockdowns.
Bear in mind that many of the people who were wrong about everything STILL run the same state and local institutions. They’re still unelected. And they’re still certain they were the heroes.
This means the next emergency will be handled by the same class of “experts,” with the same lack of oversight and accountability.
That’s the whole point of having a Plan B.
