Dr. Anthony Fauci MD, OMRI is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President.
A controversial and ineffective public figure who has made thousands of statements, in hundreds of public appearances, yet has a problem with disavowing that he did anything wrong.
In an interview Monday on The HillTV’s Rising, Dr. Anthony Fauci falsely claimed that he “didn’t recommend locking anything down” through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“First of all, I didn’t recommend locking anything down.”
Fauci joining others in the COVID “expert” crew trying to rewrite history. pic.twitter.com/litXRelNb3
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) July 26, 2022
Here are a handful of the occasions in which Fauci did recommend or affirm lockdowns and closure decisions due to COVID-19.
Told President Trump to shut down the entire country – October 6, 2020
“When it became clear that we had community spread in the country, with a few cases of community spread — this was way before there was a major explosion like we saw in the Northeastern corridor driven by New York City metropolitan area — I recommended to the president that we shut the country down,” Fauci told students at his alma mater when asked about the most crucial decision he’d made. “Unfortunately, since we actually did not shut down completely the way China did, the way Korea did, the way Taiwan did, we actually did see spread even though we shut down.”
Fauci supported Mayor de Blasio’s plan to extend the closure of New York City schools – April 12, 2020
“Mayor Bill de Blasio made the momentous decision to keep New York City’s 1,800 public schools closed through the end of June. He told just a select few, including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, who gave his blessing,” reported The New York Times.
Implied Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was being wreckless for considering reopening schools – April 10, 2020
“‘If you have a situation where you don’t have a real good control over an outbreak and you allow children together, they will likely get infected,’ said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during the daily news briefing of the White House coronavirus task force,” POLITICO reported.
Recommended schools stay closed, endorsed remote learning – August 4, 2020
“There may be some areas where the level of virus is so high that it would not be prudent to bring children back to school,” Fauci said.
8/4/20 Fauci on schools:
"There may be some areas where the level of virus is so high that it would not be prudent to bring children back to school."
In clip, he endorses Zoom education & school closures in areas w/ COVID transmission. Fauci has never been for full reopening. pic.twitter.com/eORstr2Lf8
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) November 30, 2020
Called for bars to be closed when he finally said schools should be open – August 13, 2020
“You have a choice — either close the bars or close the schools. Because, if you have people congregating in bars, it’s likely you’re going to stay red,” Fauci said in a line that he repeated again in November 2020 on ABC News’ World News Tonight.
“Close the bars and keep the schools open,” Dr. Anthony Fauci says, adding that while there is no solution that is “one size fits all,” the “best way to ensure the safety of the children in school is to get the community level of the spread low.” https://t.co/kUSbAXCqpE pic.twitter.com/47TC3QuLp5
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) November 29, 2020
Recommended some states stay closed – July 9, 2020
“Any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down,” Fauci said without singling any state out because, according to Fauci, “[i]t’s not for me to say because each state is different,” according to CNBC.
Agreed that bars and restaurants should stay closed – September 17, 2020
“I totally agree” Fauci said to Hayes when the “All In” host said that closing bars and restaurants helped states tamp down the spread of COVID. “Bars are a really important place of spreading of infection. There’s no doubt about that. And that becomes particularly important if you happen to be in an area where there’s a high degree of community spread,” Fauci said.
Insisted that California cities didn’t have a choice but to lock down again – December 7, 2020
“I have been in discussion with the health authorities from the state of California who called me and asked, you know, they said ‘We feel we need to do this — what do you think?’ and I said, you know you really don’t have any choice,”
Dr. Fauci says he is “not surprised” by the current surge in Covid-19 cases in the US.
“It was predictable … We had a high baseline of cases to begin with. Even at the time when things seemed to have been calming down, it never got down to a low baseline” pic.twitter.com/QkvEzCkST9— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) December 7, 2020
On Monday Fauci Says If We Could Do It Again, COVID-19 Restrictions Would Be ‘Much, Much More Stringent’
“When asked what he would do differently if he could go back in time to the beginning of the pandemic, White House coronavirus advisor Anthony Fauci said that he would recommend “much, much more stringent restrictions” from the get-go,” he said.
“If I knew in 2020 what I know now, we would do a lot differently,” said Fauci in an interview on Monday. “The insidious nature of spread in the community would have been much more of an alarm, and there would have been much, much more stringent restrictions in the sense of very, very heavy encouragement of people to wear masks, physical distancing, what have you,” Fauci added.
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Since he FUNDED the research (with US taxpayers’ dollars) which gave us the COVID virus, I’m sure he won’t want any responsibility but will take $$$ from Big Pharma!
Fauci, it’s time to hang up your hat…..you know what? you really don’t
have much of a choice..
You should join Biden in his basement and you could tell each other lies.
All Fauci does is lie.
It is difficult to muster any sense of empathy for liberals who, in violation of common sense and the security laws of the United States, chose to finance “gain of function” research in the Wuhan Virology Lab, during the Obama administration, in 2014. We can be thankful, if commiseratingly empathetic, that both the current president and Fauci have experienced the consequences of the “gain of function.”
Regardless of purposeful intention, (which, in this case, would have to be considered to be very suspect), the consequences should inform future behaviors with respect to research which has such devastating effects. The experience of the Covid pandemic is one more reason not to trust government. Indeed, the lies just keep coming and people are wising up to the fact that Democrats do not have the constitutional purposes of the provision for the common defense of American citizens at heart. The policies of the current administration prove the fraud of the election of 2020 and the disapproval ratings affirm that the consent of the governed is very doubtful.