In January, former White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci admitted in Congress that the 6-foot social distancing guidance from the COVID-19 pandemic was not based in any rigorous science. This is according to transcripts released on May 31st by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
The protocol “sort of just appeared,” in Fauci’s words, meaning that the entire basis for closing down countless businesses, schools, and places of worship in the United States was arbitrary. As the director of the National
Q. Do you recall when discussions regarding, kind of, the at least a 6 foot threshold began?
A. The 6 foot in the school?
Q. Six foot overall. I mean, 6-foot was applied at businesses—
A. Yeah.
Q. –it was applied in schools, it was applied here. At least how the messaging was applied was that 6-foot distancing was the distance that needed to be –
A. You know, 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. It was just that 6 foot is –
Q. Did you see any studies that supported 6 feet?
A. I was not aware of studies that in fact, that would be a very difficult study to do
…
A. Yeah. Yeah. I think it would fall under the category of empiric. Just an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data or even data that could be accomplished. But I’m thinking hard as I’m talking to you.
Q. Uh huh.
A. I don’t recall, like, a discussion of, “Now it’s going to be” it sort of just appeared, that 6 feet is going to be the distance.
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Fauci also could not recall any evidence to support guidelines that told people to mask children, and he admitted that vaccine mandates were not thoroughly studied before being implemented. He admitted that the lab leak theory is “not a conspiracy theory”
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Today, another hearing was held, and representatives from the Republican-led panel were allowed to ask him questions. It was his first public appearance since formally leaving the United States government in 2022, when he had been serving in the capacity as Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden and as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) increased the temperature by telling him he “belongs in prison.” “We should be recommending you to be prosecuted […] for crimes against humanity.” His “repulsive, evil science” caused education to falter and tarnished the educational trajectory of millions of children, she added.
I let Anthony Fauci know exactly how the American people feel about his crimes against humanity.
Mr. Fauci should be prosecuted and thrown in jail. pic.twitter.com/iHqOg3rpox
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 3, 2024
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) fired back that Greene was being “ridiculous” and that it had been the most unruly Congressional hearing in his year and a half in office.
Fauci also complained about “death threats” his family had received due to his perceived outsized role as chief advisor.
“Myself, my three daughters, they have had credible death threats, leading to the arrests of different individuals,” he said. “Credible death threats meaning someone who clearly was on their way to killing.”
“It’s very troublesome to me,” he continued. “It is even more troublesome because they involve my wife.”
These threats are why he and his family needed to have “Protective Service essentially all the time,” he explained. As Valuetainment previously reported, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in June requesting additional details about Fauci’s current employment status and “special taxpayer-funded benefits.”
Shane Devine is a writer covering politics and business for VT and a regular guest on The Unusual Suspects. Follow Shane’s work here.
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