Top COVID bureaucrat Anthony Fauci has been in retirement for less than five months and is already trying to repair his legacy and rewrite history. Speaking to the New York Times this week, Fauci offered the stunning admission that “something clearly went wrong” with the country’s COVID-19 response, but still tried to absolve himself of the blame despite heading the White House Coronavirus Task Force under two presidents. At several points during the interview, Fauci even became combative, pinning the CDC’s failures on “the culture wars” and accusing interviewer David Wallace-Wells of “Monday-morning quarterbacking” for pointing out that half of all COVID-19 fatalities have occurred in vaccinated individuals.
“Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” Fauci told The New York Times in a bid to shift responsibility for what he described as “heavy-handed” policies.
“I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that. But I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other.”
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Fauci now openly admits that masks don’t work.
But he, the CDC, and every school that followed their advice thereby TORTURED children with masks as schools and on airplanes, delaying development and education, causing mental health issues for so many kids.
And taxpayers will… pic.twitter.com/lMKw1nnK5g
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 26, 2023
During the pandemic, Fauci was frequently criticized for pushing conflicting information regarding COVID-19, social distancing policy, and the effectiveness of the vaccines. Wallace-Wells specifically questioned the former NIAID Director’s flip-flopping on mask policy, from initially advising against wearing them in the early months of the pandemic to insisting all Americans wear them, to admitting in this week’s interview that masks only work “at the margins — maybe 10 percent.”
“David, when it comes to masking, I don’t know,” Fauci said. “But I do know that the culture wars have been really, really tough from a public-health standpoint.” According to the 82-year-old, anything that “intensified the culture wars just made things worse.”
When asked if he might have made a mistake, however, Fauci became defensive,
“I don’t know if it was a mistake. A mistake is such a charged word. ‘Fauci made a mistake, people died. Fauci lied, people died,'” he said, mocking his critics. “Come on. I don’t know if it was a mistake.”
At one point in the interview, Fauci even referred to lockdown skeptics as “the ultraright MAGA community.”
“When people say to me, ‘Could we have done better?’ Of course, of course. If you knew many of the things then that now you know, definitely you would want to do things differently,” Fauci told Wallace-Wells.
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Justin Trudeau 2023: Vaccination is going to be the way through this… while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated
Justin Trudeau 2021: That’s why I’ve asked the clerk of the Privy Council who is responsible for the federal public service to look at mandatory vaccinations pic.twitter.com/SOG1cDdaEk
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 24, 2023
Interestingly, Fauci is not the only lockdown champion trying to rehabilitate their public image this week. On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau boldly declared that he had merely attempted to incentivize his citizens to get vaccinated “while not forcing them to do so.”
“And therefore, while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make sure all the incentives and all the protections were there to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated,” Trudeau told his audience. Earlier in the speech, he admitted that many people suffered “side effects” from taking the vaccine but insisted that health outcomes were still worse for those who did not take the vaccine.
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