OPINION:
In an interview published on MedPage Today, Anthony Fauci, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and ex-chief medical adviser to President Biden — and the face of pretty much all the coronavirus mandates — said he recently tested positive for his third case of COVID, despite having been vaccinated six times.
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
This is the guy who vowed, promised, pledged that if you got the shot, you wouldn’t get COVID; that if you got the shot, you wouldn’t transmit COVID to others. Liar.
Liar. Liar. Total pants on fire.
“It’s as simple as black and white,” Fauci said on MSNBC at the height of COVID hype. “You’re vaccinated, you’re safe. You’re unvaccinated, you’re at risk. Simple as that.”
Then there was May 2021, when The Hill reported: “Fauci: Vaccinated people become ‘dead ends’ for the coronavirus.”
That means the vaccine kills the virus. But it didn’t.
“Those fully vaccinated very unlikely to spread COVID-19, Fauci says,” ABC News reported in May of 2021.
But that’s untrue.
“Fauci confident vaccines can ‘crush’ COVID,” Fauci said back in December of 2020.
That was untrue, too.
Here’s a bit of truth, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute and National Review in February of 2023: “Fauci has finally acknowledged that there had always been good scientific reasons to believe that vaccines against the respiratory virus that causes Covid-19 — SARS-CoV-2 — would provide limited protection against infection that would not be long-lasting. That is precisely what happened. … Yet Fauci insisted that repeated vaccines were needed for everyone and until recently, pushed for vaccine mandates.”
Hmm.
In July, Fauci was at it again, doing what he does best, doing what he did best all along the years that will go down in America’s history as The Time of Tyranny — that is, obfuscating and gaslighting. He said, MedPage Today wrote, “I mean, I got infected about 2 weeks ago. It was my third infection, and I had been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times.”
So what’s the point of the COVID shots?
They don’t keep individuals from testing positive for COVID. They don’t prevent the spread of COVID. They don’t — as Fauci once so forcefully promised — “crush” COVID. They don’t even keep a person from catching multiple cases of COVID.
What they do, though, is this: pad Big Pharma’s pockets.
“Big Pharma raked in USD 90 billion in profits with COVID-19 vaccines,” the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations wrote in February of 2023.
The hits keep on coming.
“Big Pharma Is Still Making Absurd Profits Off of the Pandemic,” Jacobin wrote just a few days ago.
The article points to Pfizer’s projected $30 billion profits from COVID meds for this year alone. That’s after Pfizer’s record-breaking $37 billion of shots’ sales in 2021.
“It’s been a good pandemic for a company that was, until recently, the least-trusted company in the least-trusted sector in the United States,” Jacobin went on. “Not only has the company made a fortune on its COVID medicines, it’s also become a household name, with a chief executive who moves among the world’s most powerful leaders. … [The pandemic has ] been quite the PR coup.”
How does Fauci figure into the financials?
“Fauci’s New Worth Nearly Doubled during Pandemic,” Yahoo! News wrote in September of 2022.
“Fauci and wife’s net worth exceeded $11 million during pandemic,” CBS Austin wrote in September of 2023.
And all along the pandemic’s path, it was Fauci who kept pushing, prodding, promulgating of the need for all to take the shot, to take more than one shot, to take all the shots, to give the shots to kids and elderly and babies and military members; to make the shots mandatory, for crying out loud — to make the shots an annual thing.
Fauci pretended he was all science and nothing but science. But he pushed mandates and closures and shutdowns and shut-ins — all slyly, all cleverly, all while avoiding the words, “Thou Shall Shut Down.” But he did say that if people didn’t get the shot, people would die. He did say that if people didn’t get the shot, they would spread COVID to others, and people could die. He did say that it was irresponsible and politically partisan and ignorant to refuse the shot — and that those who chose this way of thinking could be responsible for the sickness and hospitalization and, yes, even death of others.
He just said all that without explicitly saying most of that.
And he kept saying all that until the media, the sheep, the control-frenzied Democrats, the medical members who worried about losing grant dollars, the health professionals who were afraid of going against the grain — he kept saying that until all these types said the same, so as to pressure the resisters into complying.
And all along the way, cha-ching. Taxpayers funded the development of much of these COVID shots, under emergency use authorization. But it was pharmaceuticals and their emergency-use-authorizing partners in politics who raked in the big money. Medicine, meet mandates. Medicine-makers, meet mandaters. That’s the smell of opportunity, right there.
“Fauci: You get vaccinated because you want to save your life,” CNN wrote in a headline during the COVID years.
“Fauci vids farewell with a final plea: Get vaccinated,” Politico wrote in a November 2022, headline at the time of Fauci’s departure from government service.
Yes. Get vaccinated. It won’t necessarily save your life — or the lives of others. Neither will it protect you from catching COVID — or spreading it to others. But it sure is good for profits.
It sure will pad the pockets of Big Pharma and their friendly tax dollar-dipping helpers in government. And it will continue to do so until someone, somebody, really, a group of somebodies, go to jail for their role in duping the public. Fauci, the face of all that was horrible and horrifying about the COVID years, is a great place to start.
• 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 and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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