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Dr. Tony "The Science" Fauci, the former director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Trump appointed pandemic guru, rapped in an interview this week. He put down that "whitey and the rest of you clowns" need to "step down" and quit aiming "finger guns" at him because it's "time to end the blame game 'bout the Covid thing."
Comedy News Network's devout anti-Zionist Christiane Amanpour asked The Science what he thinks he and his science community screwed up or "got wrong" with the useless policies they implemented and demanded the public obey under penalty of death.
“What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?” she queried Doctor Science.
“I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time,” Fauci responded. “It’s so easy.”
Except that at the time, he made it sound as if he knew so many of the things he now says he didn't know.
“This is really big time Monday morning quarterbacking here, which is what it is,” he now claims. “So, rather than have a blame game, and that’s one of the things that we have to stay away from because there were things that happened and it was a moving target and there were things that you did not know at the time and you had to, out of necessity, make a decision.”
“This is really big time Monday morning quarterbacking here, which is what it is,” he now claims. “So, rather than have a blame game, and that’s one of the things that we have to stay away from because there were things that happened and it was a moving target and there were things that you did not know at the time and you had to, out of necessity, make a decision.”
Sorry "Science," you don't get to walk away from your mess and say you didn't make it.
TRANSCRIPT:
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: You know, there were many instances, and we could play many and repeat many, you’re obviously very familiar, but, you know, the fisticuffs with people in Congress, presidential candidates, senators, governors, DeSantis, you know, and other people who just basically blamed you. They basically blamed you. They said everything you did was contrary to saving lives. As if you were in full charge.
So, I realize you’re going to say, well, no, I wasn’t in full charge. But I want to know what you think you and the community got wrong. Was the closing of the schools too draconian? How much of a delay did the fact that nobody fully understood the asymptomatic spread of this, nobody figured out that it could actually bus through certain vaccine levels as well?
THE SCIENCE: Yes, yes.
AMANPOUR: What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?
THE SCIENCE: Yes. I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time. It’s so easy, and I made that comment in my response to one of the questions that Davis Wallace-Wells asked me in the —
AMANPOUR: This is in “The New York Times” profile.
THE SCIENCE: In the “The New York Times” profile. And I didn’t mean it as an affront to him, but I said, you know, this is really big time Monday morning quarterbacking here, which is what it is. So, rather than have a blame game, and that’s one of the things that we have to stay away from because there were things that happened and it was a moving target and there were things that you did not know at the time and you had to, out of necessity, make a decision.
And sometimes the decision was partially right. For example, let me give you an example of a partially right decision. I think the idea, when you having trucks, that were cooler trucks, pulling up to hospitals in order to put bodies in because the morgues were overflowing and the hospital beds were being challenged that you had a triage, you had to shut down. I don’t think anybody who has any realistic evaluation knows that you’ve got to do something dramatic.
Once that’s done, then the thing that you need to now go back and analyze, I don’t think anyone would argue with the fact that you had to shut down, is how long you keep the shut down and how complete it is, how does that relate to schools when you shut down schools, if you do. And I have been very vocal about this and I think that people who like to point fingers, I say, go look and look at the tape. You know, the tale of the tape, when I kept on saying over and over again, we’ve got to get the children back to school as quickly as possible. We’ve got to get them in school safely and we’ve got to make sure that they are not essentially out of school, at home, getting it over the negative consequences.
Different parts of the country interpreted that differently. There were schools that stayed closed far too long and longer than they should have and there were those that essentially didn’t close at all. You know, my daughter is a school teacher in New Orleans, they closed out for two weeks, and we’re essentially open for the rest of the time and other schools —
AMANPOUR: The result was?
THE SCIENCE: And the result was, you know, they didn’t do too badly. I mean, the kids got infected, a lot of them did, you know, virtually. It was very difficult to determine, and say, well, if you shut down this long, you get no negative effect on the child and minimum effect on the infection, those studies weren’t done. It was just trying to do as best as you can in these circumstances that you are in.
So there you have it. You can easily see how Amanpour's questioning failed to seriously challenge Fauci and instead, her questions sounded more like a "blame game" against the GOP, and Gov. DeSantis in particular. She also implied that Fauci wasn't fully in charge, but at the time, when he labeled himself "The Science," when the world was scared of dying, Fauci was in charge and acted like it. And now he still refuses to take any responsibility for his incompetence.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: You know, there were many instances, and we could play many and repeat many, you’re obviously very familiar, but, you know, the fisticuffs with people in Congress, presidential candidates, senators, governors, DeSantis, you know, and other people who just basically blamed you. They basically blamed you. They said everything you did was contrary to saving lives. As if you were in full charge.
So, I realize you’re going to say, well, no, I wasn’t in full charge. But I want to know what you think you and the community got wrong. Was the closing of the schools too draconian? How much of a delay did the fact that nobody fully understood the asymptomatic spread of this, nobody figured out that it could actually bus through certain vaccine levels as well?
THE SCIENCE: Yes, yes.
AMANPOUR: What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?
THE SCIENCE: Yes. I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time. It’s so easy, and I made that comment in my response to one of the questions that Davis Wallace-Wells asked me in the —
AMANPOUR: This is in “The New York Times” profile.
THE SCIENCE: In the “The New York Times” profile. And I didn’t mean it as an affront to him, but I said, you know, this is really big time Monday morning quarterbacking here, which is what it is. So, rather than have a blame game, and that’s one of the things that we have to stay away from because there were things that happened and it was a moving target and there were things that you did not know at the time and you had to, out of necessity, make a decision.
And sometimes the decision was partially right. For example, let me give you an example of a partially right decision. I think the idea, when you having trucks, that were cooler trucks, pulling up to hospitals in order to put bodies in because the morgues were overflowing and the hospital beds were being challenged that you had a triage, you had to shut down. I don’t think anybody who has any realistic evaluation knows that you’ve got to do something dramatic.
Once that’s done, then the thing that you need to now go back and analyze, I don’t think anyone would argue with the fact that you had to shut down, is how long you keep the shut down and how complete it is, how does that relate to schools when you shut down schools, if you do. And I have been very vocal about this and I think that people who like to point fingers, I say, go look and look at the tape. You know, the tale of the tape, when I kept on saying over and over again, we’ve got to get the children back to school as quickly as possible. We’ve got to get them in school safely and we’ve got to make sure that they are not essentially out of school, at home, getting it over the negative consequences.
Different parts of the country interpreted that differently. There were schools that stayed closed far too long and longer than they should have and there were those that essentially didn’t close at all. You know, my daughter is a school teacher in New Orleans, they closed out for two weeks, and we’re essentially open for the rest of the time and other schools —
AMANPOUR: The result was?
THE SCIENCE: And the result was, you know, they didn’t do too badly. I mean, the kids got infected, a lot of them did, you know, virtually. It was very difficult to determine, and say, well, if you shut down this long, you get no negative effect on the child and minimum effect on the infection, those studies weren’t done. It was just trying to do as best as you can in these circumstances that you are in.
So there you have it. You can easily see how Amanpour's questioning failed to seriously challenge Fauci and instead, her questions sounded more like a "blame game" against the GOP, and Gov. DeSantis in particular. She also implied that Fauci wasn't fully in charge, but at the time, when he labeled himself "The Science," when the world was scared of dying, Fauci was in charge and acted like it. And now he still refuses to take any responsibility for his incompetence.
Remember when he said, [and I paraphrase] that people who did not listen to his wisdom were not following "the science." Now he admits he knew as much about what to do in regarding the pandemic as barbers knew when they were performing surgery in the 19th Century.
CNN remains as competent reporting the news as President Biden is piloting an F-35.
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