Fauci: 'I Didn’t Shut Down Anything' -- 'We Wanted to Cause a Pause'

[mystery-ak]

Fauci: 'I Didn’t Shut Down Anything'
-- 'We Wanted to Cause a Pause'

Pam Key 23 Aug 2022

Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday on FNC’s “Your World” that he was not responsible for the COVID shutdowns.

Host Neil Cavuto said, “You had said a number of times, doctor, on this show as well, that your response to COVID might not have been perfect, but it was in the times and the fast moments in which you lived and were making those decisions. So, looking back at some of those decisions, including masks – you were first opposed to them and then embraced them – the severity of the epidemic itself and completely shutting down virtually an entire American economy. Do you regret the shutdown, the sweeping shutdown that some said made things worse?”

Fauci said, “No, I don’t, Neil. And in fact, I think we need to make sure that your listeners understand, I didn’t shut down anything. There was a lot of consideration among the White House task force that we were reaching a point where the hospitals such as in New York City and other places were being strained to the point of practically being overwhelmed. And when Dr. Birx and I came with the proposal that we take 15 days to essentially get to the point where we slow, if not shut some things down, not completely. The record will show that we didn’t shut things down. We wanted to cause a pause, if you’ll remember the terminology, to flatten the curve.”

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[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

we were reaching a point where the hospitals such as in New York City and other places were being strained to the point of practically being overwhelmed

Yet when charitable organizations like Samaritan's Purse set up emergency "overflow" hospitals in various places, they went unused - and nurses had time to TikTok dance routines. Something is amiss. Is it possible for Anthony Fauci to shove his "pause" where the sun don't shine?

[Kamaji]

Yet when charitable organizations like Samaritan's Purse set up emergency "overflow" hospitals in various places, they went unused - and nurses had time to TikTok dance routines. Something is amiss. Is it possible for Anthony Fauci to shove his "pause" where the sun don't shine?

Not only that, but when Trump ordered the a Navy hospital ship to NYC, it went largely unused.

[jmyrlefuller]

And when Dr. Birx and I came with the proposal that we take 15 days to essentially get to the point where we slow, if not shut some things down, not completely. The record will show that we didn’t shut things down. We wanted to cause a pause, if you’ll remember the terminology, to flatten the curve.”

PAUSE was literally the acronym used by Andrew Cuomo to literally shut things down.

Cuomo and Fauci have been lifelong friends.

This basically admits conspiracy.

[240B]

I never said the vaccine would work.
I never said masks would prevent COVID.
I never said the virus did not come from China.
I never said shutting down schools nationwide was necessary.
I never closed any businesses.
I never worked with China.
I never claimed to be a White man.
I never claimed to be from New York.
I never claimed to ever not claim anything.
I never said the moon is made of cheese.

I'm betting Fauci and his family will flee the country before November.
Guessing they will all head to Argentina to be with their old family members.

[Free Vulcan]

That claim does not match his former statements.

[Smokin Joe]

That claim does not match his former statements.

Yeah, well, half his former statements don't match his former statements.

He is a weasel using weasel words.

[catfish1957]

Save it for the witness stand Tony......

[rustynail]

It's “The Pause that Refreshes”.

[The_Reader_David]

Obnoxious as Fauci is with his la science c'est moi attitudes, he is correct.  The blame for the shutdowns lies entirely with the policy makers, both state governors and Pres. Trump, who did not take the CDC's pronouncements as one very important input to pandemic abatement policy and weigh costs and benefits to formulate policy, but instead behaved as if the only human good was the prevention of infection with and death from the Sars-Cov2 virus and its variants, and took the CDC's pronouncements as the only input to policy.

Weighing costs and benefits would have given us a policy in line with the Great Barrington Declaration and what Sweden did instead of the disaster we got.

[Wingnut]

When it comes to this Jab Troll I want to do what Ron DeSantis recommends be done with him.

[GtHawk]

Wait, I'm shocked that Mr. Science didn't say that it wasn't him that shut down anything -- it was the science. If there is anyone that deserves to be hounded where ever he goes and called out, it's the evil elf.

[Kamaji]

Mr. Fauci’s whinging that he didn’t shut anything down is of a piece with the mafia family boss who defends himself by claiming that he didn’t kill anyone.  No,  it he was instrumental in providing the lies that allowed those who did do these things to do them. 

[libertybele]

I never said the vaccine would work.
I never said masks would prevent COVID.
I never said the virus did not come from China.
I never said shutting down schools nationwide was necessary.
I never closed any businesses.
I never worked with China.
I never claimed to be a White man.
I never claimed to be from New York.
I never claimed to ever not claim anything.
I never said the moon is made of cheese.

I'm betting Fauci and his family will flee the country before November.
Guessing they will all head to Argentina to be with their old family members.