Is Fauci trying to "sneak outta Dodge" before the people wise up and come after him for a necktie party?? (Would be just like him, the little lying weasel!) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/republicans-vow-investigate-fauci-despite-convenient-retirement
Yeah, we'll see what they do when/if the time comes. Plenty more scummy biotyrants to 'vestigate in that line-up.
I wish the politics was taken out of global pandemics. While it is arguable whether world governments should have gone to the lengths they did to combat Covid, only to still have a lingering pandemic, the fact was we did not know how severe Covid was going to be when it first came out. In my personal experience, a Covid infection is more severe than the flu and care should be taken when managing the disease, especially with older people. As far as a “Survival of the fittest” argument in order to more efficiently reallocate resources to younger generations in an apparently over crowded, climate challenged, and ecology challenged world, i could possibly be open to it. Such an idea should be heavily debated in public before such policy is established, but would be more likely to happen behind closed legislator doors as a possible prelude to a hidden agenda in the future, perhaps.
The people genuinely "in the know"... KNEW the shots were ineffective and caused death and injury.... denied all evidence to the contrary. And they foisted them onto the public for political reasons. LOTS of people with blood on their hands. None of them should get a pass!
So you have no facts from reputable sources to back up your assertions -- just batshiat insane nonsense from anti-vax Covid-deniers who have regularly been debunked as complete liars. Let's take a look at reality. COVID-19 Vaccines: Myth Versus Fact https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hea...oronavirus/covid-19-vaccines-myth-versus-fact
Both sides have used statistics misleadingly. Vaccine effectiveness peaks at about two weeks after administration on which vaccine effectiveness statistics are based. Covid vaccines may offer limited, perhaps very limited, protection against new strains of Covid. The main benefit a vaccine has for Covid, or most other non-Covid vaccinations for that matter, is the recent activation of one’s immune system by a vaccine, say within six months of a vaccination or booster, may help diminish the potential potency of a viral infection. It may be most efficient to get boosters for more dangerous pathogens as both enhanced protection from that pathogen and Covid. Getting Covid full brunt risks death or injury beyond what is normally seen with the flu and thus seemingly justifies Government action on at least some level. Political fights require resources and risk party credibility. As a practical matter, are we not better served by choosing fights we are more likely to win? As in Probability of success times reward to risk equals expectation? Sure, some variables are hard to define, but at this point, two and one half years after world governments have been taking action, is the vax or no vax argument effectively moot? The best we can do at this point is to become better prepared for when the next attempt at crisis profiteering becomes evident. Judging by pharmaceutical company profits and the cost to be competitive in a political campaign nowadays, there indeed seems to have been some Covid crisis profiteering. How do you feel about Ukraine? Grin.
Wuhan Virus Lab Got More U.S. Money Than Previously Disclosed The Chinese laboratory that some consider the source of the coronavirus pandemic received four different U.S. grants in 10 years. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, says at least three of the grants never were posted on a U.S. government database, which was required. Wuhan Virus Lab Got More U.S. Money Than Previously Disclosed (msn.com)
Looks like the Republicans "investigation" is coming to nothing. Dr. Fauci very clearly answered the questions today and set the Republicans straight on their absurd fabrications. Takeaways from Fauci’s testimony at contentious House hearing on Covid-19 pandemic https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/politics/fauci-testimony-house-hearing-covid-19/index.html Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified on Monday at a House subcommittee hearing about the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the origins of the virus. The hearing was Fauci’s first public testimony on Capitol Hill since his retirement from government service. It turned contentious at times as Republicans grilled Fauci over a wide range of topics, including the basis for public health recommendations during the pandemic and email use by public health officials. Here are key takeaways from the hearing: US still needs to close communication gaps to be better prepared for next pandemic Fauci said there are still some things the US needs to work on to be more prepared for another pandemic in the aftermath of Covid-19, saying in “some respects” the country is better prepared to deal with a health crisis than in 2020, “but in others, I am still disappointed.” One thing that he hopes the US will do better moving forward is tightening communication between the federal response and local public health officials. Fauci said there was a “disconnect between the health-care system and the public health system” during Covid-19 in the US. Specifically, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not demand information from local agencies, which caused a lag in sharing data. “We were at a disadvantage,” Fauci said, adding that the CDC is working on ways to fix this pain point. Republicans grill Fauci over public health official’s use of email Fauci testified Monday that he has not used his personal email to conduct business, and he was not aware before a congressional investigation that a former senior adviser at the National Institutes of Health had used unofficial email. “What you saw, I believe, with Dr. Morens was an aberrancy and an outlier,” Fauci testified on Monday, referring to a former senior adviser at NIH. “The individuals at the NIH and NIAID are a very committed group of individuals and this one instance that you point out is an aberrancy and an outlier.” The House Oversight select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic previously released a series of private emails that Republicans argue show that some NIH officials deleted emails and tried to get around requirements to disclose information through public records laws. In a memo published at the end of May, committee members said Dr. David Morens, a former senior adviser to Fauci, engaged in “nefarious behavior.” Fauci said he had worked on research publications with Morens in his role as a senior adviser, but Morens’ role did not include advising Fauci on any department policy. The committee points to email that Morens sent another colleague that suggests he would send email to Fauci’s private account and “there is no worry about FOIAs.” FOIA is the Freedom of Information Act, the law that gives the public the right to obtain federal records, including emails sent within government agencies. Morens’ email goes on to say that he can also hand information to Fauci to avoid it being a part of the public record. Fauci testifies about possible origins of virus that caused Covid-19 In Fauci’s testimony, he addressed what he said were “certain issues that have been seriously distorted concerning me,” particularly around the origin of the virus that led to the Covid-19 pandemic. Fauci testified that in early 2020, he was informed through phone calls with two scientists — Jeremy Farrar, then the director of the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Kristian Andersen, a scientist at Scripps Research — that they and others were concerned that the virus that causes Covid-19 could have been manipulated in the lab. The day after those calls, Fauci said he participated in a conference call with several international virologists to discuss manipulation in the lab or possible spillover from animals to humans. He characterized the discussion as “lively,” with arguments on both sides. Fauci said he did not try to steer the discussion in any direction. Fauci said the virologists on the joint call decided to more carefully examine the genomic sequence and after further examination, and said, “several who at first were concerned about lab manipulation became convinced that the virus was not deliberately manipulated.” Scientists found the most likely scenario, Fauci said, was a virus that transferred from an animal to a human, “although they still kept an open mind.” “The accusation being circulated that I influenced the scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false, and simply preposterous,” Fauci said, noting he had no input into the content on a paper published in March 2020 that discussed the possible origins of the virus. Some of the world’s leading scientists have investigated the origins of the virus, including a committee of experts from the World Health Organization. Most scientists believe that the virus spread from animals to humans in China. Some studies have also said that the theory that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, cannot be ruled out. Most US intelligence agencies say the virus was not genetically engineered, but it is still not totally clear how the pandemic started. A US intelligence analysis released last year said either origin was possible, and the community remains split on the issue. The US Department of Energy assessed last year that it had “low confidence” in the lab leak theory. No US federal agency believes that the virus that causes Covid-19 was created as a bioweapon. “I cannot account nor can anyone account for other things that might be going on in China, which is the reason why I have always said and will say now, I keep an open mind as to what the origin is,” Fauci said Monday. Fauci details threats he and his family have received Fauci detailed the threats he received during his time as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, describing death threats against him and threats against his wife and daughters. Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell asked Fauci to explain what some of the threats were and he replied: “Everything from harassments from emails, texts, letters of myself, my wife, my three daughters. There have been credible death threats leading to the arrest of two individuals – and credible death threats means someone who clearly was on their way to kill me. And it’s required my having protective services essentially all the time.” Fauci said he feared that the threats against public health workers during the Covid-19 pandemic would serve as a “powerful disincentive” for the best and brightest candidates to take up the profession. “They say to themselves, ‘I don’t want to go there. Why should I get involved in that?’” he said. “They’re reluctant to put themselves and their family through what they see their colleagues being put through,” he testified. The 6-foot social distance guideline came from the CDC, Fauci clarifies Fauci clarified that the 6-foot guidance for social distancing given during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic did not come from him, but from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It actually came from the CDC. The CDC was responsible for those kinds of guidelines to schools, not me,” Fauci said. Fauci, who repeated the guidance during the pandemic, once said that there was no science behind it — but he meant that there were no clinical trials to back it up. “It had little to do with me since I didn’t make the recommendation and my saying ‘there was no science behind it’ meant there was no clinical trial behind that,” Fauci said. He added that he believed the CDC used studies about droplets years ago as reasoning for the 6-foot guidelines. When the CDC first promoted the idea of 6-foot “social distancing” for people who had to be around others during the pandemic, scientists thought that larger contaminated droplets would fall out of the air quickly and couldn’t travel farther than 6 feet. At the time, the World Health Organization recommended that people keep a meter, or 3.3 feet, between them. But even as early as 2021, scientists were starting to understand that the coronavirus is airborne, meaning it could spread through droplets and aerosols, smaller particles that could travel even farther and float in the air. That’s in large part why public health agencies emphasized the importance of people wearing masks to reduce the number of germs that could float in the air and make people sick.
Let's see how the absurd fabricated nonsense spewed by certifiable nutcase Marjorie Taylor Greene at a Congressional hearing is driving more death threats to Dr. Fauci. Fauci says ‘unusual’ antics by Marjorie Taylor Greene at hearing is reason he gets death threats Former presidential medical adviser clashed with far-right congresswoman when he testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Monday about the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rie-taylor-greene-covid-hearing-b2556338.html Dr Anthony Fauci has accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of inspiring death threats against him. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases clashed with the Republican firebrand lawmaker at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on Monday in which he gave testimony about the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. During the hearing, Greene told Fauci he was “not a doctor” and that he “belonged in prison” for “crimes against humanity” amid heated questioning. She also accused him of experimenting on beagles with disease-causing parasites. “As a dog lover, I want to tell you this is disgusting and evil, what you signed off on, and these experiments that happened to beagles paid for by the American taxpayer,” she said. “And I want you to know that Americans don’t pay their taxes for animals to be tortured liked this.” Following the hearing, Fauci appeared on CNN to slam Greene for her commentary on the Covid-19 pandemic, accusing her of “unusual” antics that could inspire death threats against him. “Whenever somebody gets up, whether it’s the news media you know, Fox News does it a lot or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that I’m responsible for the deaths of x number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created the virus — immediately — you could like clockwork, the death threats, go way up,” Fauci said during an appearance with Kaitlan Collins on CNN. “So that’s the reason why I’m still getting death threats when you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene.” He went on to criticise Monday’s hearing for “the level of vitriol” that played out on the Congress floor. “I have testified literally hundreds of times over the last 40 years, over Congress and there’s always been differences of opinion, differences of ideology and things like that,” he said. “But the level of vitriol that we see now just in the country in general — but actually played out during this hearing was really quite unfortunate. “Because the purpose of hearings are to try and figure out how we can do better so that next time if and when we all faced with a pandemic we’d be better prepared and we could benefit if mistakes were made; we identify them and we try to correct them for the future,” he added. Republicans have sought to prove that Fauci tried to suppress information about the origins of Covid-19 and baselessly claim he funded research that triggered a pandemic that killed millions of people, with GOP lawmakers grilling Fauci on these accusations, which he has denied, on Monday. Shortly after Greene’s questioning, Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, lambasted her line of questioning. “That was completely irresponsible,” he said. “This might be the most insane hearing I’ve actually attended.” Throughout the hearing, Garcia and other Democrats apologized to Fauci for attacks from Republicans, noting how he, his wife and daughters received numerous death threats. The hearing was Fauci’s first public appearance on Capitol Hill since he left as the chief medical adviser for the Biden administration and as director of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. ====================================================== Dr. Fauci says he is receiving more death threats after Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'unusual performance' and pictures shown at hearing Dr. Anthony Fauci said he has received a surge in death threats after the Monday hearing into his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/anthony-fauci-death-threats-pictures-32957743 Dr. Anthony Fauci has experienced a surge in death threats following the Congressional hearing into his Covid-19 response, he disclosed. The top medical advisor and ex-chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) faced a combative session on Monday regarding America's handling of the Covid-19 outbreak and the virus's origins, during which Marjorie Taylor Greene aggressively confronted him and oddly charged him with "signing off" on animal torture, displaying pictures of deceased dogs. "Immediately, like clockwork, the death threats go way up," he remarked on CNN. "That's the reason why I'm still getting death threats. When you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene." He pointed out that such an "unusual performance" by Marjorie Taylor Greene, where she blamed him for all pandemic-related deaths and even for creating the virus, "is the kind of things that drive up the death threats" because there is "a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense." Fauci, who led NIAID for almost 40 years before retiring in 2022, endured hours of interrogation by a GOP-dominated subcommittee that has been investigating the country's pandemic response for over a year. He revealed during the hearing that there had been several credible death threats necessitating law enforcement intervention before the session. He revealed that two individuals were apprehended who were "clearly on their way to kill me," which is why he has had to have "protective services essentially all the time." The hearing quickly descended into partisan bickering, with the MAGA politician demanding that he, whom she refused to address as a "doctor, be prosecuted " be prosecuted "for crimes against humanity" and stated he "belongs in prison." Greene accused Dr. Fauci of "making up COVID rules including six feet social distancing and masking of children" and insisted he should be "prosecuted for crimes against humanity." During Monday's hearing, Greene said: "Mr. Fauci, cause you're not 'doctor,' you're Mr. Fauci in my few minutes... That man does not deserve to have a license. As a matter of fact, it should be revoked, and he belongs in prison." She also repeatedly interrupted him during her questioning, including at one point cutting him off, saying: "Nah, I don't need your answer." "As director of the NIH, you did sign off on these scientific experiments and as a dog lover I want to tell you that this is disgusting and evil what you signed off on," she said. "Americans don't pay their taxes for animals to be tortured like this so the type of science that you are representing Mr Fauci is abhorrent." Dr Fauci responded by asking: "What does dogs have to do with anything that we're talking about today?" When an objection was raised over her repeated refusal to call him by his title, she replied that he "doesn't deserve" it. "In my time that man doesn't deserve to have a licence," she said. "As a matter of fact it should be revoked and he should be in prison." ===================================================== Additionally let's fact check -- the claims that Dr. Fauci was involved in funded a study that tortured beagles as per the pictures Marjorie Taylor Greene held up in the hearing. Of course, NIAID rejected funding this study and had no involvement in it. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that it did not fund one of the studies, which produced widely circulated photos showing dogs’ heads in mesh cages full of sand flies. The journal that published the study that erroneously claimed support from the NIAID has since issued a correction. So, the claims that Fauci funded a study that sedated and let beagles get eaten alive by flies are inaccurate.