The Fauci Diaries
Senator Rand Paul has released the personal diaries of Anthony Fauci as he wrote them from 2020-2022. They are tremendously revealing of a man obsessed with image.
BY BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE
Did you see the news? Likely you did not because it has yet to hit the headlines, if it ever does. Senator Rand Paul has released the personal diaries of Anthony Fauci as he wrote them from 2020-2022. They are tremendously revealing of a man obsessed with image, busy from morning to night daily with media appearances.
He was not reading the journals or pre-prints. He was not following the data. He was not consulting other actual experts. His was a full-time media job, one he had never been assigned. He just took it upon himself, while gradually ramping up his recommendations from stay safe to panic to keep everything closed as long as possible.
Was it really the case that society had to be wrecked in order to control a respiratory infection? Many had doubts. Fauci had none.
You see in these diaries how he became intensely political over time. He began with an appreciation for Trump because Trump liked him. By the end of year one, he had become a crusader for lockdowns and shot mandates while demonizing anyone who disagreed with him as being “far-right.”
It was a transformation amidst a level of media hagiography rarely seen in our times. He took note of every t-shirt, bobblehead doll, cupcake with his face, and revelled in the adoring crowds everywhere he went. He came to believe that any attacks on him, any criticism of him, was nothing short of an attack on science itself. He said so in interviews.
It appears now that the wheel of fortune has turned for this man who experienced a level of celebrity rivalled by Hollywood stars of yesteryear. The storms were already gathering as Biden left office. He was granted a pardon even though he was under no investigation and faced no real possibility of prosecution.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky stayed on the case, gathering millions of documents of all communications of Fauci and all his associates. In anticipation of a hearing this week, in which Fauci has been subpoenaed to appear, the Reading Room has released many of them. They include detailed notes on how the staff of NIH lobbied for many paid awards to be given to Fauci.
This should be fascinating to watch. Don’t expect contrition. Expect amnesia. Even if nothing comes of the hearing, we now have many thousands of pages of documents to at least know more about how and why this happened to our country and to the world.
Knowing is an essential first step to reform. As of now, the pandemic plan for this country remains what we saw: lockdown until most of the population is vaccinated. Nothing has changed about that but it must change. A shift in the public perceptions concerning Fauci’s role is an essential step.
Alongside this grand theater, the cause of freedom is threatened on multiple fronts. Flock cameras have invaded our communities in order to further build the control grid. The courts are blocking vaccine exemptions even for the Amish. States are getting tougher with mandates.
It feels like a real turning point. We either plunge further into tyranny or make a sharp turn toward freedom. You know where we stand.
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The Diaries of Anthony Fauci: 2020-2022 By Brownstone Institute. Senator Rand Paul released the full diaries of Anthony Fauci, the former head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the leading voice of the Covid response during the most critical time in US history in the 21st century.
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