The tragedy of Anthony Fauci – and his critics.

Many politicians and “pundits” are missing the point on Dr. Fauci and the pandemic response.

Yes, Dr. Fauci is arrogant and did a terrible job communicating during the pandemic. However, his critics are using his deficiencies to spread their own misinformation. Criticizing a liar doesn’t make your own lies OK.

Did the 6 foot rule make any sense? No, it did not. However, that doesn’t mean it was perfectly safe to go into a crowded bar during the height of the pandemic when no one had been vaccinated and hospitals were overrun with sick and dying people. The virus was spreading as an aerosol. Being in any enclosed space with a lot of people greatly increased your risk of infection. The 6 foot rule was a stupid attempt to pretend that crowded buildings were safe if only you followed it when clearly they were not.

Did asking small children to wear loose paper masks make any sense? No, it did not. However, that’s not because a properly fitted N95 doesn’t work, it is because it was unrealistic to expect small children to wear a N95 properly. Although children were less at risk than others, some children did die of Covid. Many teachers also died. Should we forget them?

Was it accurate to suggest that the Covid vaccine would stop transmission of the virus and that that the vaccination would last indefinitely. No, it was not. However, vaccination did slow transmission and did protect, to varying extents during the pandemic, the vaccinated from serious illness. Repeated vaccination at intervals of about 4 months greatly reduced the risk of death and Long Covid. And why do none of the pandemic revisionists mention Long Covid and the brain damage and other health risks it causes?

With a few notable exceptions, Members of Congress are missing the most important point about NIH funding of EcoHealth and the transfer of grant funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Fauci did not plan to create a pandemic. He’s not in league with the Chinese government. The funding of EcoHealth was intended to gain cooperation of Chinese scientists to identify new strains of virus that might pose a threat to the United States in exchange for instruction on how to manipulate viruses in the lab. However, given the nature of the Chinese government, this plan was dangerously stupid, and did not receive proper review.

Dr. Fauci and many other scientists know little about international politics or the ideology of the Chinese government. Dr. Fauci’s hope that the Chinese government would cooperate to warn the world about new viruses was naive. The Chinese government is aggressively seeking to create biological weapons with which to “clear the world” of non-Chinese. Xi Jinping is a genocidal maniac and so are many members of the Chinese government. Their racism includes a belief in a separate, and superior, evolution of the Chinese people, something they are rarely called on. Our intelligence agencies should know about this and should be warning anyone who has dealing with the Chinese government about this belief system. Frankly, the American people should know about this as well.

The NIH did arrange for money to go to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which intelligence agencies knew, or should have known, was engaged in biological weapons research. More importantly, NIH through its grants, facilitated the transfer of knowledge on how to engineer viruses to make them more dangerous from US scientists to Chinese scientists. This transfer of gain-of-function knowledge, without any review of potential danger by NIH or US intelligence agencies, is the most important fact for Congress to focus on. Until the US Congress, intelligence agencies and the Defense Department take biological weapons seriously, and I can assure you, they do not, presently, we will be at grave risk from attack after attack. We also have to stop pussyfooting around about the nature of the Chinese Communist Party and government. They are evil. They look at the Nazis as a cautionary tale. Not because the Nazis did evil things, but because the Nazis didn’t go far enough. Our government needs to start saying this, out loud.

Anthony Fauci is 83 years old. 20 years ago he was an able administrator. 40 years ago, he was an outstanding scientist. Now, however, he is a bitter old man with an inflated ego, a pathetic need for attention and a failing brain. His agency was poorly run before and during the pandemic. Funding EcoHealth alliance and teaching Chinese scientists the techniques they needed to make biological weapons was a huge mistake, but not an intentional one, on Dr. Fauci’s part. What was intentional was the cover up. Dr. Fauci’s reputation cannot be saved by any politician, no matter how well meaning. However, all the “personality stuff” about Dr. Fauci is not really important. Please, Congress, focus. The Chinese government means us ill. They are working on biological weapons. SARS-CoV-2 was likely an in-progress project that escaped through sloppiness. It is not the only project they are working on.

Focus. Focus. Focus.

References

THE STRATEGIC CONSEQUENCES OF CHINESE RACISM: A Strategic Asymmetry for the United States. Mr. Andrew Marshall Director OSD Office of Net Assessment. January 7, 2013.

The Han Chinese ‘Master Race’. Charles Burton. The Dorchester Review. October 20, 2023.

Chinese Persecution of the Uyghurs. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules. December 9, 2021. Joel Gunter, BBC.

State Department cables: Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted classified research. Emily Kopp. June 14, 2023. US Right to Know.

Long-Term Effects of SARS-CoV-2 in the Brain: Clinical Consequences and Molecular Mechanisms. Granholm, A-C. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2023.

Gestalt # 201

Dr. Morens Speaks

The following are a selection of quotes from emails written by Dr. Morens, senior advisor to Dr. Fauci. In the emails below, “Tony” refers to Dr. Fauci. “Peter” refers to Dr. Daszak. Most of these emails are in reference to EcoHealth Alliance, led by Dr. Daszak, and the grant money it received from the NIH and funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. FOIA stands for Freedom of Information Act. This is the act which allows any US citizen to obtain unclassified information held by the federal government.

In his own words, Dr. Morens:

You are right, i need to be more careful. However, as i mentioned once before, i learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia’d but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe. Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.

The best way to avoid FOIA hassles is to delete all emails when you learn a subject is getting sensitive.

PS, i forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs. I can send stuff to Tony on his private gamil,or hand it to him at work or at his home. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.

I suggested Arthur try to interview Tony directly and connected him to our “secret” back channel. He emailed Tony a few hours ago.

email from Morens to Daszak and Keusch—with the subject line “NIH awards $7.5 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance, months after uproar over political interference”

Ahem … do I get a kickback???? Too much f*g money! DO you deserve it all?

Peter from Tony’s numerous recent comments to me, and from what Francis [Collins] has been vocal about over the past 5 days, they are trying to protect you, which also protects their own reputations.

You may be amused at the following aside that was a big surprise to me. He [Dr. Fauci] was asking my opinion about what is wrong with CDC and in the process said, out of the blue, that it was HE who got Rochelle Wolensky her job as CDC director by lobbying for her to Ron Klain.
Well, she does wear a skirt… I poured a little cold water on her
but he was undeterred in thinking she is the cat’s pajamas…

Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the US Military

A former U.S. Navy vice chief of naval operations has been arrested on charges that he accepted bribes to steer work to a company while he was commander of naval forces in Europe and Africa, Justice Department officials said in a Friday statement.

Robert Burke, 62, of Coconut Creek, Florida, along with two business executives, Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger of New York, were each charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday.

“Burke is also charged with performing acts affecting a personal financial interest and concealing material facts from the United States. If convicted, Burke faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, and Kim and Messenger each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison,” the statement said.

Former vice chief of naval operations arrested on bribery, conspiracy charges. Bradley Peniston, Defense One. May 31, 2024.

Meghan Messenger and Yongchul “Charlie” Kim are senior executives at a company called “Next Jump“. After reading content at their web page, I found it difficult to determine what they actually do. Their website is filled with psychobabble about “leadership” and “decision-making”. They apparently offer “training” to improve decision making. Seems like patent BS, to me. In addition to the US Navy, they also list the US Air Force as a customer. Given the recent arrests, I think one can fairly ask whether anyone in the US Air Force was also involved in improper behavior.

Setting aside the bribery charges, why does the US Air Force and the US Navy need leadership lessons from such a BS company? Shouldn’t the US Air Force and US Navy be giving leadership lessons in their own training and by example? Do they not know how to do this anymore?

There is serious rot in the US military. We have “powerpoint” generals who need lessons in leadership from BS, psychobabble companies instead of people who lead by example. There are members of the US military who have led their troops into battle and prevailed in difficult circumstances. Shouldn’t generals and admirals ask proven combat veterans how to lead? Vast sums of money are being wasted on companies like “Next Jump” while enlisted personnel struggle to feed their families. Just so sickening.

Gestalt #54 – SARS-2 Pandemic

The Conspiracy Call

On Feb 1, 2020 there was a secret conference call organized by Drs. Anthony Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID]) and Francis Collins (Director of the National Institutes of Health [NIH]) to discuss the origins of the SARS-2 virus. This call was triggered by previous communications from scientists who believed that the virus not natural.

A day before the teleconference, Kristian Andersen, an expert in infectious disease genomics at the prestigious Scripps Research Translational Institute in California, had told Fauci first by phone and again later by email that the genetic structure of the virus looked like it might have been engineered in a lab.
“The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Andersen said in an email to Fauci on Jan. 31, 2020. Andersen added that he and University of Sydney virologist and evolutionary biologist Edward Holmes, plus a handful of other top scientists with whom Fauci was on a first-name basis, “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”
Allison Young, USA Today, June 17, 2021

The details of the call are still being kept secret by Dr. Collins:

…details of what was said in the meeting, including extensive notes taken by one participant and further thoughts shared by others, were blacked out by the NIH before the emails were made public.

After the call, Dr. Andersen and others publicly claimed that the virus must have emerged naturally.

“A small group of scientists, and a larger group of science journalists, established and enforced the false narrative that scientific evidence supported natural spillover, and (also) the false narrative that this was the scientific consensus,” said Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biosafety expert at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
There were other views out there, they just weren’t given much coverage as being credible.
“The February 1 telecon,” Ebright said, “appears to have played an important – probably crucial – role in establishing and enforcing that false narrative.”

It is hard to interpret the call on Feb 1, 2020 as anything other than a conspiracy, organized by Drs. Collins and Fauci, to shut down discussion of the possibility of a non-natural origin of the SARS-2 virus. Given the national security implications of a possible non-natural origin, it is surprising that US intelligence agencies were not part of this conference call. There should be a Congressional investigation to determine whether Drs. Collins and Fauci abused their overwhelming power in the US biomedical community to intimidate scientists into keeping silent about the possibility that SARS-2 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Drs. Collins and Fauci should resign

There are calls to “fire Fauci”. Some of the organizers of this effort are, themselves, questionable characters who are using this movement to make political hay with their supporters. They know perfectly well that President Biden will not “fire Fauci” because his political opponents order him to do so. Indeed, the partisan nature of the attacks makes it politically difficult for him to “fire Fauci”, even if he wanted to.

None of this prevents Drs. Collins and Fauci from resigning. In my opinion, it is past time that they did so. They have proved themselves completely incompetent in managing the scientific response to the pandemic. Despite having access to billions of dollars and the most advanced sequencing technology in the world, the United States became a laughing stock when it came to sequencing new variants of the virus. This is at least in part due to the mismanagement of the scientific response by Drs. Collins and Fauci. They were slow to move and often made the wrong moves. Dr. Fauci repeatedly made public statements that were later proven to be incorrect (e. g. not wearing masks). In some cases, he deliberately lied to the public (e. g. the herd immunity percentage). Dr. Collins said little during the pandemic and showed a complete lack of courage in countering misinformation. His career as a science administrator was boosted by strong political support from Newt Gingrich, a right-wing Republican. He has also been successful in enlisting the support of left-wing Democrats by demonstrating sympathy to animal rights activists. His policies at NIH left us unprepared for the pandemic which most scientists knew was inevitable.

In the past, NIH enjoyed broad, bi-partisan support by Congress. Most citizens in the US would like to see cures for Cancer, Heart Disease, Alzheimer’s disease, etc. The actions of Drs. Collins and Fauci are now jeopardizing that support. Further, Dr. Fauci’s attempt to insinuate himself with one political party and shameless desire for publicity now make him a public health liability. If he now says “wear a mask”, then many Republicans will refuse to wear a mask. If he says “get the vaccine”, then many Republicans will refuse to get a vaccine. Refusing to resign under these circumstances reveals an egotism that matches any politician’s.

Thought disorders

I am a scientist. That means I subscribe to certain beliefs about how to determine what to think and what to do. For example, when deciding what is true, I form hypotheses and test these with experiments in the real world. I distinguish between facts and opinions. I do not care where the facts come from. It doesn’t matter whether the facts come from people I don’t like and opinions come from people I do like. I make decisions based on facts, not opinions.

Some scientists say that they didn’t speak up about the lab-leak hypothesis because they didn’t want “to help Trump” or were afraid that they would “give aid to racists”. This is nonsense. Facts are facts. A real scientist says the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth regardless of who this helps or hurts. Once scientists start shading their statements for political ends they cease to be scientists.

Some members of the public do the opposite of whatever Dr. Fauci tells them to do. This is also nonsense, dangerous nonsense. Stalin believed in the power of science to advance Soviet goals. What would have happened if, in the 1950s, the US government said “Stalin likes science, so we will abandon science.” We would all be speaking Russian now or else be dead. Sometimes Dr. Fauci does say things that are true, such as “You should get vaccinated against SARS-2”. Refusing to be vaccinated because he says this may lead directly to your death. Examine the data for yourself and make your own decisions. Think for yourself. That has always been my motto.