Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) has released 1,141 pages of Anthony Fauci’s private covid era diaries, and on Wednesday he will haul the man before the Senate Homeland Security Committee under subpoena. Sen Paul should be applauded for his heroic persistence in holding Fauci accountable, and he has spent the past few days discussing the distinction between what the longtime government bureaucrat wrote privately and what he told the public. That is indeed a true scandal.
Yet it’s not the lab-leak question and the real, widespread confusion surrounding those early days of hysteria that is the scandal here. What we lived through was a seasonal respiratory outbreak converted by an unaccountable bureaucracy and a compliant press into the largest episode of mass hysteria in modern American history. The pathogen was not a significant part of the covid story. The panic and hysteria that resulted in civilizational disruption is.
Agree with my premise or not, but on top of that, Fauci’s “mitigation” record is still indefensible, and Fauci has already admitted it under oath.
In January 2024, in a closed-door transcribed interview with the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Fauci was asked where the six-foot rule came from. His answer, released in full that May: “I don’t recall. It sort of just appeared. I don’t recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be 5 or 6 or whatever.” Asked whether he had seen any studies supporting six feet, he said he was not aware of any, and that such a study would be very difficult to do. He called it an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data, or even on data that could be gathered. Asked whether he recalled reviewing any studies on masking young children, he could not.
Now remember what six feet actually did.
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