Does Fauci Bear Any Responsibility? He Says No Æ Brownstone Institute

Unfortunately, sitting atop the world s largest stash of infectious disease research money, with an annual NIAID budget of over $6 billion, Dr. Fauci was able to command the nation s pandemic strategy with little opposition from other infectious disease scientists.

As the pandemic ends, as all pandemics do, the scientific community has much work to do to regain public trust. The collateral damage arising from the failures of pandemic management includes a broader distrust by the public of the academic community. While only a few scientists are responsible for the misguided pandemic strategy, all scientists whether we are chemists, biologists, physicists, geologists, economists, sociologists, psychologists, public health historians, clinicians, epidemiologists or in some other field now share a responsibility to restore trust in science and academia. The first step is to acknowledge the mistakes made.

via brownstone.org

Dr. Fauci, like others in the history of the pandemic, has fervently to hope that there is no God or any other sort of justice that catches up with him, because he is fated to do poorly indeed. Maybe he’ll get a preview if the Republicans ever get back in power. Basically to aggrandize himself and his pet super-killer-virus research projects, which as far as I have read, have resulted in zero actual benefit to humanity, he circumvented prudent science and federal law, and farmed out his research to a relatively new and sloppily-run lab in Wuhan, China. There the deadly bug escaped and would go on to kill millions, sicken millions more, and ruin the lives of many more people who were driven into poverty and despair by the lockdowns, which, of course, Fauci was also a big fan of, and which helped, it seems, not at all. But he’s not finished yet. It seems increasingly clear that to cover up his crimes, and crimes they were, he lied about his role in this whole mess, and the likely origins of the virus, and continues to do so. Even now he advocates for what I think we should all agree, has proven itself to be, every bit as dangerous a kind of research as its harshest critics claimed. Here’s a bright idea — let’s not dig bats out of their caves, take their viruses, manipulate them into killers of millions with no known cure or vaccine that definitely works, just because it’s cool, super-expensive, and Scientific, and then plop them down in third-world labs, because you can’t do this stuff in the US. Can we all now agree Dr. Fauci et al. have made their point? Said what they had to say? How many pandemics do we need before we say, hey, Doctor, how about you write your self-serving memoirs now? Give some younger doc the chance to fool around with those puzzling little sub-microscopic killing machines? Fauci and his fellows have also contributed immeasurably not just to the loss of scientific credibility, and you never know when we’re going to need that again, but also to weakening the moral ties that bound Americans to each other and to other people of good will in the world. The moral and psychological costs of this pandemic have been enormous, and it looks like it is in fact ultimately the fault of a small group of scientists. How many people can take the credit for so much death and despair? It is a short list of very bad men and women. They sure as hell would want the credit for anything good that came out of this research, so they should also take the blame. And all, as far as I can tell, because Fauci has some sort of dream of himself as a high priest of Science, bringing enlightenment to the world. I can’t even think of him, and the rest of them, what the PRC, NIH and the rest of Big Virus brought down upon the world and my little part of it without getting very angry.