Chief pandemic architect wants amnesty

Former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci Friday appeared to ask for amnesty in a CNN interview when he called for an end to “the blame game”.

Early in the pandemic, Fauci famously advised against face masks, saying “the typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.” 

He suddenly reversed course about two months later, insisting that every individual wear a mask around others. This became the basis for the Biden administration’s debilitating and divisive mandate. 

But despite evidence against mask-wearing, Fauci remained a staunch advocate of masks, which he continuously claimed was backed by “science”. 

Furthermore, though the 81-year-old encouraged lockdowns — proven to be massively destructive and ineffective in lowering mortality rates — the only basis for his stance was his deputy Dr. Clifford Lane. Lane returned from China and raved to Fauci about the success of lockdowns, though there had been no scientific evidence supporting the mandate. 

The former White House Chief Medical Advisor in May 2021 claimed that the vaccine wholly prevented the spread of COVID-19, which became the basis for vaccine mandates.

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. In other words, you become a dead end to the virus,” Fauci said. “And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.” 

When asked about his conflicting guidelines, Fauci admitted to “moving the goalposts” based on a “gut feeling” about what the public was ready to hear.

But on Friday, Fauci told CNN’s Christian Amanpour that there must be an end to “the blame game” because he simply did not know.

“I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned [lockdowns and the vaccine’s ability to stop transmission] were unknowns at the time,” said Fauci.

“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,” he added.

In a research analysis published in January, Fauci admitted that the COVID-19 vaccines never had a chance of controlling the pandemic.

In a PBS documentary about himself which premiered in March, Fauci acknowledged he was “wrong” about the COVID-19 mandates — not for orchestrating them, but for not forcing them sooner.

“Maybe I should have done that,” Fauci told Director Mark Mannucci in response to a question about whether he should have ordered mask mandates and quarantines earlier. “Yeah, I was wrong.”