This is something else right here, and it looks like Dr. Anthony Fauci, or Science for short, thinks he can just rewrite history however he sees fit.
During an interview with Newsweek's Batya Ungar-Sargon this week, asked if he would recommend locking down schools if he could do 2020 all over again, bro literally said, "I didn't recommend locking anything down."
Extra bold, and extra Pinocchios for this one.
A little side-by-side for you:
Yeah dude, ya did recommend shutting things down.
And it wasn't just our schools.
Thanks to Townhall, I've got a bunch of instances to refresh your memory, Mr. Science (though as a revisionist I'm sure you remember all of these).
Here's a list of times Fauci literally recommended shutting things down:
1. Told then-President Trump to shut down the entire country - October 6, 2020
"When it became clear that we had community spread in the country, with a few cases of community spread — this was way before there was a major explosion like we saw in the Northeastern corridor driven by New York City metropolitan area — I recommended to the president that we shut the country down," Fauci told students at his alma mater…
2. Gave "his blessing" for Bill de Blasio's plan to extend the closure of New York City schools - April 12, 2020…
3. Attacked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for considering reopening schools - April 10, 2020…
4. Said schools should stay closed to prevent the spread of COVID while endorsing remote learning - August 4, 2020
"There may be some areas where the level of virus is so high that it would not be prudent to bring children back to school," Fauci said.
I'll pause here to give you that clip:
5. Called for bars to be closed when he finally said schools should be open - August 13, 2020
Here's that:
6. Said states should shut down depending on the level of COVID spread - July 9, 2020
"Any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down," Fauci said without singling any state…
7. Agreed with MSNBC's Chris Hayes that bars and restaurants should stay closed - September 17, 2020
"I totally agree" Fauci said to Hayes when the "All In" host said that closing bars and restaurants helped states tamp down the spread of COVID. "Bars are a really important place of spreading of infection…
8. Supported school closures as form of disease "mitigation" - March 12, 2020
"The one thing I do advise and I said this in multiple hearings and multiple briefings, that right now we have to start implementing both containment and mitigation. And what was done when you close the schools is mitigation," Fauci said outside the White House.
9. Told California cities they didn't have a choice but to lock down again - December 7, 2020
"I have been in discussion with the health authorities from the state of California who called me and asked, you know, they said 'We feel we need to do this — what do you think?' and I said, you know you really don't have any choice," Fauci explained.
So there you have it. The man known as Science definitely recommended shutting down the country several times throughout the past two years, though you knew that already. So any talk of that not having occurred is straight lies and revisionism (what'd you expect from the guy?).
I gotta give Fauci a break here, though. Maybe after all those jabs and contracting Covid he's just not in a great place mentally.
Maybe he doesn't even remember that he was once The Science™.
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