Anthony Fauci, le “Monsieur Covid” de Washington, annonce sa retraite
▻https://www.voaafrique.com/a/anthony-fauci-le-monsieur-covid-de-washington-annonce-sa-retraite-/6712810.html
#Anthony_Fauci Should Have Resigned a Long Time Ago
▻https://jacobin.com/2022/09/anthony-fauci-covid-19-pandemic-public-health-science-niaid
The fact is that throughout the pandemic, Fauci repeatedly gave the public faulty or misleading information. Most famously, he told 60 Minutes in March 2020 that “right now in the United States, people should not be walking around wearing masks.” Granted, that was during a period of deep scientific uncertainty about the virus, where a lot of authorities got a lot of things wrong.
Maybe more damaging was Fauci’s later admission that this wrong advice was motivated by the need “to save the masks for the people who really needed them, because it was felt there was a shortage of masks” — in other words, he had intentionally given the public false information for what he saw as the greater good. This later statement was doubly inexplicable given that emails later unearthed showed Fauci privately giving the same advice to a former health and human services secretary around the same time. But whatever the truth, the damage was done.
This was far from the only such instance. In another notorious episode, Fauci admitted to the New York Times he was setting and revising the threshold of vaccination needed for herd immunity not based on science, but on his own calculation of the American public’s appetite to get shots:
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