Fauci’s fall: ‘The science’ pleads the Fifth

Anthony Fauci refused to answer what color tie he was wearing in a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday. He also refused to answer what day of the week it was. This is not a joke. Over 100 times, the COVID-19 lockdown mastermind pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions ranging from the color of the carpet to National Institutes of Health funding of Chinese research.Over and over, during the pandemic, we were told to “trust the science.” And Fauci declared to the world, “I am the science.” How are we supposed to trust a man who, despite already being pardoned by former President Joe Biden, would not answer a single question about his alleged corruption and unscientific policies?Institutional trust sank to an all-time low after the pandemic, thanks in large part to Fauci. With the opportunity to restore some of that trust, he chose the shadiest possible route and vindicated his critics, such as Rep. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who says “silence is admission.” Fauci went from saying “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask” to suggesting people should wear multiple at the same time. He championed the six-foot social distancing rule, but all along knew there was no scientific evidence backing it up. He told Congress the NIH never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but that was not true. Fauci shot down the idea that the virus came from a Wuhan lab leak, apparently to deflect criticism of the NIH’s aforementioned funding, claiming COVID-19 came from a bat — his own diary shows he had doubts about the bat theory. He publicly distanced himself from failed, draconian lockdowns and school closures, but took credit for it in his diary entries.When asked about these discrepancies and many others, “the science” went silent.The country as we know it still has not recovered. Test scores are still down, some oddballs still walk around with a mask on, and many businesses that closed were unable to reopen. During the pandemic, you couldn’t go into a store without a useless mask on, and when schools reopened, they required a vaccine that hadn’t been tested with the same rigor as other shots on the market, which did not stop transmission of the virus, for an age demographic that experienced extremely low risk from it in the first place. My school, Rutgers University, wouldn’t even allow us to take online classes without getting vaccinated. I sued the school and was able to finish my degree without a forced injection, but others were not so fortunate.MEDIA MIND CONTROL: NEWS OUTLETS HIJACK NARRATIVES THROUGH DISHONEST LABELSMany people want to bring back the Nuremberg Trials to hold pandemic-era fascists such as Fauci accountable. Wednesday’s hearing showed that will never happen. Just as there were no arrests following the release of the Epstein files, there will be no repercussions for the people who stripped us of our freedoms and destroyed our economy. It’s not like they were successful at containing the virus or improving its death rate either — a Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 34 studies showed the lockdowns and similar policies had “little to no effect” on COVID-19 mortality. Instead, the studies showed, the policies had “devastating effects” on the country, with the researchers noting that “they have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy.”While we can’t go back in time to fix those mistakes, or even hold the culprits responsible, we can learn a few lessons from them. We now know how easy it is for our rights to be taken away, and how many people will go along with it — even going as far as calling the police on those who won’t comply with unscientific orders. We should now be much more vigilant about another government gaslighting campaign. And perhaps people will start to consult the data rather than trusting “the science.”