By Neenah Payne
Dr. Anthony Fauci was the Director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984-2022. Fauci made $417,608 in 2019, the latest year for which federal salaries are available. He was the highest paid federal employee – making more than US presidents. Dr. Fauci also served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force and was frequently interviewed on TV during the COVID era.
Dr. Fauci famously declared that anyone who criticized his COVID policies was criticizing science because “I represent science”. Anyone who disagreed with the COVID policies was labeled a “conspiracy theorist” or “anti-vaxxer” and was accused of being selfish and “killing people”. Doctors who were curing COVID patients with vitamin D, vitamin C, HCQ, Ivermectin, or budesonide risked losing their licenses.
However, during the Congressional hearing on June 4, Dr. Fauci admitted there was no scientific basis for many COVID policies – including wearing masks and social distancing which was used to justify the devastating lockdowns.
Fauci says no evidence for pandemic guidance on masking or social distancing.
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Dr. Rich McCormick is an Emergency Room physician who serves Georgia’s 6th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. In confronting Dr. Fauci in Congress on June 4, Dr. McCormick explained that he was successfully treating thousands of COVID patients in the ER with leading-edge technology. However, he was taken off the internet and his medical license was threatened because he disagreed with bureaucrats.
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Dr. McCormick said he “was censored for the first time by the United States government stepping in and taking the place of medical professionals as the “experts” in healthcare! ANY dissenting surrounding COVID-19 treatment, mask mandates, any public policy surrounding the pandemic was immediately labeled as “anti-science”.
“I watched as public health officials and politicians told my patients what treatment options were best for them regardless of their co-morbidities or their medical history. Despite my education, my training, and my experience, my opinions were relegated to “conspiracy”, “misinformation” by so-called “healthcare experts” who had never treated a patient throughout the entire pandemic.
This has been a black eye on medicine and highlighted why government should NEVER, NEVER insert itself in between patients and their healthcare providers. The American people deserve to make medical decisions through conversations with their physicians rather than politically-motivated mandates.
Dr. Fauci, did you ever treat a patient for COVID during the pandemic?"
When Fauci said he was part of a team at NIH, Dr. McCormick said, “So, not hands-on. Why would I be criticized by a bureaucrat for doing my very best and to help care -- this is a rhetorical question. But why? Why would the government who’s never treated a patient for COVID – you can read all the pages you want, but you’re not there. You’re not seeing the patient. You’re not watching people die, intubated patients, right there with that disease in your face, watching it happen, watching the development of the disease and actually learning from it. But I’m being told by bureaucrats what’s right and wrong! You know what’s funny? Everything I was censored on; I was proven to be right. Pretty crazy, isn’t it?
You said in an interview that you gave as part of an audio book written by Michael Specter that you believe that institutions should make it hard for people to live their lives."
The audio of Fauci speaking was played showing that he approved forcing people to get the COVID shots to go to work and to go to school. He referred to objections to COVID shots as “ideological bullshit”. Dr. McCormick asked Fauci, “Are all objected to getting the COVID shots “ideological bullshit?” Fauci answered that was not what he was referring to.
Dr. McCormick says, “Well, in reference to making it hard for people to get education, traveling, working, I’d say it very much was in context – and I take great offense to this.
Ms. Allison Williams testified before this committee about losing her job because she sought an exemption from ESPN’s vaccine mandate which came from recommendations from bureaucrats like yourself. She and her husband were actively working with a fertility expert – a physician – on how to get pregnant who agreed with the premise that she was young, healthy, wanted to get pregnant and shouldn’t get the vaccination for medical purposes. But she was fired because you made it hard just like you said in your statement because you wanted to make sure that the “ideological bullshit” didn’t get in the way of her working, of her living her life, of her making a decision with her healthcare professional.
I think Americans should take great offense at this! That’s EXACTLY what you meant when you said, “Making it hard for people to live without getting the vaccination”! YOU affected people’s ability to work, travel, be educated, to actually flourish in American society – to self-determine – as well as God-given rights. Shame on you!
Dr. Fauci, you’ve become “Dr. Fear”! Americans do not hate science! I don’t hate science. Americans hate having their freedoms taken from them. You inspired and created fear through mask mandates, school closures, vaccine mandates that have destroyed the American people’s trust in our healthcare institutions. This fear – that YOU created -- will continue to have ripple effects over generations to come! You’ve already seen its effects in education, in the economy, and everything else.
Quite frankly, you said, “If you disagree with me, you disagree with science”. Dr. Fauci, I disagree with you because I disagree with fear! And with that, I yield.”
Neenah Payne writes for Activist Post
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