Dr. Makary has been a beacon of reason and sense since the start of the pandemic.
I think Anthony Fauci - and many, many, many like him, all over the world - are fundamentally emotional and flawed human beings. What they did was allow their own primal fears of COVID-19 to overtake their rational thinking and completely overrun their obli…
Dr. Makary has been a beacon of reason and sense since the start of the pandemic.
I think Anthony Fauci - and many, many, many like him, all over the world - are fundamentally emotional and flawed human beings. What they did was allow their own primal fears of COVID-19 to overtake their rational thinking and completely overrun their obligations to the public they serve
It is for this reason that Fauci sacrificed children and ignored obvious science around natural immunity and so on. His entire decision making was driven by fear; his own. Hundreds of public health officials around the globe were the same - abject cowards above all else
The words of Jordan Peterson ring very true here: "if you thought tough men are dangerous wait until you see what weak men are capable of"
His fear of the virus was a cynical pretense, IMO. I think he feared the threat the virus posed to his authority and power were the truth of its origins--and his own role in it--allowed to gain traction into a good faith, official inquiry. Also, he had the same data everyone else did about the clear stratified risk and comorbidity profile, but he needed to keep public fear high to promote Pharma solutions and profits. I hope he isn’t allowed to get away with his dereliction of duty and corruption. But given the state of accountability in our current culture, I won’t hold my breath.
Exactly, he had a blatant conflict of interest and was protecting himself by getting the public to look in another direction. And if his big pharma cronies got rich in the process, even better for them (not so much for us).
I respectfully disagree with you that it was primal fear driving the decision making--it was purely financial. You simply can not ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars that changed hands as a result of the decisions made by Fauci, the CDC, etc. If there were no profits to be had, maybe you could argue that it was fear.
I've read that 75% of the GLOBAL pharmaceutical profits come from the US. No country's response to and policies regarding covid did more to help big Pharma profit than the US. As highlighted by Dr. Makary above, further knowledge was never sought but further drug development was. As new data became available, the policy (vaccine first) never changed. It wasn't until the profits from vaccines had started to fizzle out that we saw a softening of the "vaccines are the only way forward" policy.
Sadly our government has become a giant system that specialized in the transfer of wealth to a select few. That's what Covid was. That's what the next pandemic will be and Fauci's replacement will be responsible for ensuring that occurs.
I think, as Ben Shapiro often says, two things can be true at one. It was fear and the money. I know that the drumbeat of fear still affects people. There is a truly hideous booster ad where a young man, who is perfectly healthy, runs away from someone who hasn't had a booster. The CDC is still feeding the fear...
No doubt. In private the elites were not afraid of covid. They only wanted the people to be. Like the governor of California sitting shoulder to shoulder with all the medical experts at the French Laundry. No masks or distancing
Dr. Vinay Prasad just put out something this morning on his substack that's along the same lines. Basically children, who were/are the least susceptible to serious illness/death from covid suffered the harshest restrictions. Even fairly recently, young kids in some states were wearing masks while adults were out partying at bars. Hell, one school called the cops on a 4-year old that wasn't wearing a mask. The consensus is that kids can't vote and voting is the only thing we have left (sort of) to express dissatisfaction.
Now with climate change, we're all expected to do "our part." Except corporations can continue to decimate the environment in the process of earning profits and wealthy people can fly all over the world on their private airplanes. But again, it's the average Joe that must sacrifice the most. I've seen a comparison of carbon footprints for a wealthy person flying on a private jet versus the average adult. It's a joke. You can't drive your car enough in a year to have half the impact one private aircraft flight.
I agree with you. The working class will ultimately pay the most for climate change policies despite being the least responsible for what is happening to the earth.
Totally agree. This was big business and political power, but remember we are also talking about a man who said that we may never shake hands again. When he said that, my jaw dropped not because I believed him, but because I couldn’t believe his germ phobia was so firmly entrenched that he felt comfortable expressing it to the world.
Dr. Makary has been a beacon of reason and sense since the start of the pandemic.
I think Anthony Fauci - and many, many, many like him, all over the world - are fundamentally emotional and flawed human beings. What they did was allow their own primal fears of COVID-19 to overtake their rational thinking and completely overrun their obligations to the public they serve
It is for this reason that Fauci sacrificed children and ignored obvious science around natural immunity and so on. His entire decision making was driven by fear; his own. Hundreds of public health officials around the globe were the same - abject cowards above all else
The words of Jordan Peterson ring very true here: "if you thought tough men are dangerous wait until you see what weak men are capable of"
His fear of the virus was a cynical pretense, IMO. I think he feared the threat the virus posed to his authority and power were the truth of its origins--and his own role in it--allowed to gain traction into a good faith, official inquiry. Also, he had the same data everyone else did about the clear stratified risk and comorbidity profile, but he needed to keep public fear high to promote Pharma solutions and profits. I hope he isn’t allowed to get away with his dereliction of duty and corruption. But given the state of accountability in our current culture, I won’t hold my breath.
Exactly, he had a blatant conflict of interest and was protecting himself by getting the public to look in another direction. And if his big pharma cronies got rich in the process, even better for them (not so much for us).
Good point--the gain of function research was his baby.
I respectfully disagree with you that it was primal fear driving the decision making--it was purely financial. You simply can not ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars that changed hands as a result of the decisions made by Fauci, the CDC, etc. If there were no profits to be had, maybe you could argue that it was fear.
I've read that 75% of the GLOBAL pharmaceutical profits come from the US. No country's response to and policies regarding covid did more to help big Pharma profit than the US. As highlighted by Dr. Makary above, further knowledge was never sought but further drug development was. As new data became available, the policy (vaccine first) never changed. It wasn't until the profits from vaccines had started to fizzle out that we saw a softening of the "vaccines are the only way forward" policy.
Sadly our government has become a giant system that specialized in the transfer of wealth to a select few. That's what Covid was. That's what the next pandemic will be and Fauci's replacement will be responsible for ensuring that occurs.
I think, as Ben Shapiro often says, two things can be true at one. It was fear and the money. I know that the drumbeat of fear still affects people. There is a truly hideous booster ad where a young man, who is perfectly healthy, runs away from someone who hasn't had a booster. The CDC is still feeding the fear...
No doubt. In private the elites were not afraid of covid. They only wanted the people to be. Like the governor of California sitting shoulder to shoulder with all the medical experts at the French Laundry. No masks or distancing
One could draw a comparison to the elites that fly on private jets while telling us regular folk that we need to reduce our carbon footprint.
Dr. Vinay Prasad just put out something this morning on his substack that's along the same lines. Basically children, who were/are the least susceptible to serious illness/death from covid suffered the harshest restrictions. Even fairly recently, young kids in some states were wearing masks while adults were out partying at bars. Hell, one school called the cops on a 4-year old that wasn't wearing a mask. The consensus is that kids can't vote and voting is the only thing we have left (sort of) to express dissatisfaction.
Now with climate change, we're all expected to do "our part." Except corporations can continue to decimate the environment in the process of earning profits and wealthy people can fly all over the world on their private airplanes. But again, it's the average Joe that must sacrifice the most. I've seen a comparison of carbon footprints for a wealthy person flying on a private jet versus the average adult. It's a joke. You can't drive your car enough in a year to have half the impact one private aircraft flight.
I agree with you. The working class will ultimately pay the most for climate change policies despite being the least responsible for what is happening to the earth.
Well said, but I think our answers are complementary, and not necessarily mutually exclusive. Cheers,
Totally agree. This was big business and political power, but remember we are also talking about a man who said that we may never shake hands again. When he said that, my jaw dropped not because I believed him, but because I couldn’t believe his germ phobia was so firmly entrenched that he felt comfortable expressing it to the world.
I agree 100%.