Seeking Straight Answers
At a hearing this week, Sen. Roger Marshall questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on COVID-19 spreading due to the surge of migrants at the border.
Dr. Fauci is very skilled at ducking questions. My favorite clip is toward the end of the video.
Marshall: Dr. Fauci, are you comfortable with what we are doing on the border from an ID standpoint?
Dr. Fauci: The reason I have to hedge on that is that I am not really very deeply familiar with the details of what’s going on at the border.
Marshall: Whose job is it to know that?
Ducking Questions
Fauci ducked every question including those on opening schools, something he ought to know about.
All he does is parrot the WHO as if he has no opinion of his own.
Disturbing Images of Migrant Center Conditions
Refusal to answer questions and attempts to hide what is really happening go hand-in-hand.
Biden refused to discuss the border situation, repeatedly dodging reporters’ questions until Leaked Images by a Texas Democrat forced the issue.
For discussion, please see Biden Tries to Hide Migrant Center Conditions But Disturbing Images Surface.
Mish
Biden is showing his true self. But it is a little bit too late to recognize this truth.
Biden is showing his true self. But it is a little bit late now to recognize this truth.
Did it take you that long to know Dr. Faucy non-sense talks? He tried to hang in to get paid at 80+ years old, and gets the limelight from the left-wing supporters.
He doesn’t give us clear answers because there are very few clear answers to give about this pandemic. I am sure that most of you have noticed that there are wide differences in opinion from different experts who are also highly qualified. That is normal in science and even if we would all love to have clear, hard answers sometimes there is not enough data and analysis to do so so consequently someone in the position of Fauci when asked can only be hedgy in his answers. It’s not incompetence, malintent or wishy-washiness. It’s simply because they don’t know enough.
If you don’t know enough, then don’t say anything. Unfortunately in today’s media, as on the net, too many people like to hear themselves post, so will say anything that pops into their small minds.
You’re correct. However, recall that Dr. Fauci himself admitted that he intentionally lied to the American people regarding masks at the beginning of the pandemic. He claims that it was to ensure that there were sufficient N95 masks for healthcare workers, and he may be telling the truth about his motivation. Nevertheless, we taxpayers already pay 536 federal ELECTED critters who lie to us. The least we can expect is that hired civil servants will attempt to tell us the truth.
That was a grave error without doubt and made by leaders in other countries too. I do not defend all he did or said, far from it, but I recognize that is this pandemic mistakes were inevitable considering the unknown nature of the beast and our political system that is not authoritarian in nature and that we could not close our borders as island nations could. I have a graduate degree in in Microbiology and long time ago worked on infectious water-borne diseases in Africa so I have some familiarity with the subject.
Please. The same senators who refuse to put on a mask or support closures or social distancing are sudenly worried about migrants with Covid. These were fake gotcha question. Frankly it was embarassing. Rand Paul in particular , who is a doctor claiming the double mask is theatrics
I notice Fauci wasn’t wearing his mask on his face while he was speaking.
By now wanting people to double mask, Fauci was admitting that masks didn’t prevent people from contracting Covid.
“A May 2020 meta-study on pandemic influenza published by the US CDC found that face masks had no effect, neither as personal protective equipment
nor as a source control.”
“A July 2020 review by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medince found that there is no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth masks against
virus infection or transmission.”
“A Covid-19 cross-country study by the University of East Anglia came to the conclusion that a mask requirement was of no benefit and could even
increase the risk of infection.”
Who is engaging in theatrics? Health authorities.
Dr. Rand Paul is one of the few doctors I trust regarding this virus. Double masking does absolutely nothing, only a P100 mask gives protection, and the average citizen would never wear a P100 mask
Republicans try to make theatre out of everything. A few weeks ago they were complaining that illegals could be vaccinated. Now they are complaining of risks of covid spreading from the border. It is old do nothing Republican party. Literally solve nothing and do nothing and stand in the way. Its been this way for 12 years.
Did the Democrat Federal judges and Democrat politicians let Republican authorities carry out their jobs to protect US? Please, go back and review the actions before you
show your biased, ignorant, non-sense expression.
As usual its designed for theatre. Fauci isnt a politician. He wrote books on internal medicine, virology and epidemiology.
“Fauci isnt a politician.”
So why is he politicizing Covid?
Thank you for this post. Found it very informative.
SPAM
Now we have many examples of countries, how they manage covid, and what they could do. It is clear now that Asia was the best, provided the problem is treated from the very beginning. Europe and US did something, but too late, and don’t even stop infection from outside (no strict borders, almost no quarantine for visitors).
Now variants appear that cannot be stopped by vaccines. It seems also that the virus is spread among animals in our countries, so that new variants can appear again and again. When will we learn the good methods of Asia. Will we need some instructors from these countries ?
It is a corona virus. They mutate all the time … it is what they do.
That’s why we have a new flu shot every year. That’s why they don’t even bother trying to make a vaccine for the common cold.
And for the exact same reason – it is why we will have a new Covid shot every year as well.
The Asian (and other) countries tend to offer effective early treatment. The same stuff that the Western countries shun, demonize and make illegal. (think HCQ or Ivermectin and numerous others now).
I’m based in Thailand. Population 70 million give or take. Total Covid mortalities since the beginning of the pandemic = 92. Yes, just 92 deaths.
It is not rocket science.
The vast majority of people who succumbed to Covid were old and overweight. I don’t think you have a high population of old, overweight people in Thailand.
I’ve heard some refer to the Covid vaccines as “overweight vaccines”.
There is no such thing as a public health expert
Autocrats in lab coats and ivory towers.
Jordan Schachtel
23 Mar 2021
Since the beginning of COVID Mania, we’ve been told to “listen to the public health experts.” Governments and the corporate media has identified this category to us as individuals (Dr. Fauci, Rachel Levine, Tedros Adhanom, Bill Gates) and groups (CDC, WHO, Gates Foundation, Imperial College, etc) that are supposedly the best resources out there for dealing with pandemics and disease spread. Want to know about how to deal with COVID-19? Follow orders from the omniscient public health experts, we’re told.
Well, we’re now over a year into this thing, the free world is in shambles, and virtually everything recommended by these supposed world-class experts has resulted in complete chaos and devastation.
The “public health experts” told us that lockdowns were the key to our salvation. When that didn’t work, they did the same thing with masks, curfews, physical distancing, and the like. They had it all figured out, until they didn’t, and destroyed tens of millions of lives in their attempts to resolve a virus problem. So how could these highly-touted “experts” get everything so catastrophically wrong?
And what exactly is a public health expert anyway?
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What exactly have they gotten catastrophically wrong ?
Take you head out of the sand.
Not a fan of the good Dr. His hand was involved at least on the funding side with the gain of function research on bat corona-viruses in the infamous Wuhan lab. On another note if you think you had Covid and want to be sure because you are not too keen on the mRNA vaccines: 99% accurate long term test to see if you had Covid link to t-detect.com
Fauci parrots whatever his political masters tell him to. When Trump was in charge he said no masks and downplayed Covid. Now that Biden is in charge it’s 2 masks.
It’s almost impossible to tell what he himself believes because he can only say what he’s told to say by his political bosses. In turn the American public has zero confidence in anything he says unless what he says happens to align with their point of view in which case they agree with him. If not, they think he’s a liar and an idiot.
Fauci ducked every question including those on opening schools, something he ought to know about.
All he does is parrot the WHO as if he has no opinion of his own.
What is really clear from the recent years is that many people need to believe in charlatans that give them the certainties they crave.
WTF do you think Faucci should know about what is going on on the Mexican border?
WTF do YOU know about what is going on the Mexican border? Are you all hyped up on the inane certainties of the shouting heads on the teevee or radio?
A critical percent or two of the GOP electorate will not be around for the next election…
….Politically conservative men have been skeptical of the coronavirus from the beginning. Now that the vaccine is becoming more widely available, a striking number are deciding not to get the shot: According to a recent NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, 49 percent of Republican men do not plan to get vaccinated, a higher percentage than any other demographic group in the United States….
That would be me. I skipped flu shots for DECADES and never lost a day of work due to the flu. I got minor chills and fever, but it was all survivable. It has to do with my strong immune system, avoiding large crowds (especially cities), refusing to take public transportation (flying, bus, train, cab) and oh yeah, washing my hands often.
This is great for 2022 and beyond. As this voter block dies off life will become more normal. Isnt this the group that said death was ok anyway ?
The Many Variants of Fauci’s Mutating Covid Advice
Phillip W. Magness
– March 23, 2021
In an explosive Senate hearing on March 18, Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul over a subject that has characterized much of the White House health adviser’s recent commentary on Covid-19: the specter of reinfection, caused by one of the emerging variants of the virus.
Several recent studies suggest that both natural and vaccine-induced immunity to Covid-19 is robust at least for the medium term, and even those hinting at possible reinfections suggest it is a rare phenomenon mainly afflicting people with severely weakened immune systems.
Fauci nonetheless maintains that reinfections, particularly from the South African variant of the virus, are not only commonplace but justify maintaining a suite of restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing regulations – perhaps even for another year.
Paul pressed Fauci to cite the scientific literature supporting this claim, to no avail. Instead, Fauci deflected the question by repeating platitudes about masks and exaggerating a recent study about reinfections. According to Fauci, previously recovered people who “were exposed to the variant in South Africa” reacted “as if they had never been infected before. They had no protection.”
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Because if he says anything that is black/white he gets slammed.
Tony will always talks shades of gray.
Big pharma shill. He no longer even tries to hide it. Anyone with a grade 5 education who has been following Covid for even a few hours can appreciate how evil and disturbing these recent comments are. I am not a fan.
I don’t even understand Marshalls question. What we are doing at the border from an ID standpoint? What does that even mean?
Its a dogwhistle to raise your hackles about depraved, diseased, discolored invaders. Fauci doesn’t run border patrol.
Unfortunately, our political leaders are willing to punt these tough leadership decisions to the appointed rather than weigh the input from all of the relevant experts, including medical, science, social, financial and economics. Taking the political safe road of listening only to your medical expert without weighted regard for the overall impacts of medically driven governing policies is lazy and leaves one open to broad and justifiable criticism.
They’re all subject to the tantrums of the moron electorate, which is a major vulnerability of democracy.
I prefer that vulnerability to the vulnerabilities of Communism, fascism, monarchy, dictatorship or anarchy.
Is covid being spread by illegal immigrants?
Have you been to ANY of the southern tier states and see the majority of US citizens there who are indignant at any and all safety measures to thwart the virus? Spitting on mask wearers. etc.,
Eff them and their immigrant/virus outrage–it’s as phoney as Sidney Powell aand Ted Cruz.
Epidemiology is based on probablilty. It can’t prove anything, but it can tell you what’s probably or will probably happen. Making concrete declarations based on that is the domain of gamblers and fools.
Fauci knows how to tap dance those answers.
Fauci is an overpaid Fascist.He is truly a moron with NO CLUE about what is really going. Big power trip!!!!
from a blogger: “Dr. Fauci gives more mixed signals than a desperate quarterback”