OPINION:
Sen. Rand Paul has introduced a measure to make a repeat of Dr. Anthony Fauci “I am zee law!” lockdowns less likely in the face of a new pandemic.
This, as Fauci waffled on CNBC that he didn’t know the future for COVID-19, but that vaccines are mostly here to stay. Why? Because blink and their efficacy rates fall. Can you say booster after booster after booster?
“Everybody wants to return to normal,” Fauci said. “Everybody wants to put the virus behind us in the rearview mirror, which is, I think, what we should aspire to.”
Ya think?
The problem with Fauci is he, oh so badly, wants to be king.
“But alas, honesty is not one of Fauci’s recognizable attributes,” Paul quipped in a previous opinion piece for Newsmax.
And if there’s one thing a king should be, it’s honest.
From Paul, Kentucky Republican, back in January on Newsmax: “If Fauci and his authoritarian lap dogs really wanted to persuade the unvaccinated to choose the vaccine, they might have tried honesty, admitted that naturally acquired immunity works and advised Americans to get tested for previous infections.”
And then allowed the American people to make the choice whether to vaccinate or not.
But for two years, natural immunity — also known as God-given protections against diseases — was poo-poohed by the scientific community, by the Fauci sycophants, by the politicians and bureaucrats who seized upon the coronavirus to inflict damage upon the Constitution and to steal individual liberties.
For two years, leftists with globalist and elitist designs exploited the pandemic by exploiting the fear of the people — by exploiting the data — by exploiting the media. And for what? For selfish power. For selfish funding. For selfish ambitions.
For two years, the ringleader of the exploitation was Fauci.
“If Fauci was simply one family doctor in Peoria, his mistakes would not be so catastrophic,” Paul wrote for Fox. “But since Fauci is allowed to be a medical czar for the whole country, his errors are amplified throughout the land.
Throughout the world, really.
So Paul’s solution is to split Fauci’s job as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases into three positions.
That’s genius.
It removes the ability of Fauci and any future Fauci types to be in charge of both policy and funding. Maybe then we’ll have a stopgap to fake science — the kind that researchers issue when they know their boss will cut off their money flow if they don’t say this, or discover that, or advise this but not that. Maybe then we’ll have an NIAID that’s isn’t so uncomfortably close to Big Pharma and the media and the political ruling elites.
Maybe then we’ll have a way of making sure an unelected medical bureaucrat can’t run roughshod over God-given individual liberties every time a pandemic hits, or threatens to hit — or is exploited for full-force impact.
Maybe then, when Fauci says jump, we won’t have to say, “How high?” We can say thanks — but we got it.
America deserves leaders who are honest, forthright, dependable and pro-America — meaning, pro-American liberties.
Paul’s amendment restores the accountability to a system that has shown itself for two-plus years to be quite the opposite. And the beauty of it is that it does what Founding Fathers decided was best to keep tyrants from taking over the country: Divide the government. Separate the powers. Limit the ability of one to dictate to a nation of millions.
If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it’s this: Never again.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.
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