Dr. Anthony Fauci now claims that he had ‘nothing to do with school closures’ during the pandemic. The disastrous numbers are trickling in and children’s education suffered greatly as a result of taking two years off—Who knew?
The line comes to mind after watching Dr. Anthony Fauci’s interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl over the weekend. In the interview, Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was asked whether it was a “mistake” for schools to remain shut down for so long during the pandemic.
“I don’t want to use the word ‘mistake,’ Jon, because if I do, it gets taken out of the context that you’re asking me the question on,” Fauci explained on Sunday. “We should realize, and have realized, that there will be deleterious collateral consequences when you do something like that.”
“I ask anybody to go back over the number of times that I have said we’ve got to do everything we can to keep the schools open, no one plays that clip,” Fauci told Karl. “They always come back and say, ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do [with it].”
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ABC News: “Was it a mistake, in so many states and so many localities, to see schools closed as long as they were?”
Dr. Fauci: “I don’t want to use the word mistake, Jon…They always come back and say, ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do [with it].” pic.twitter.com/dyERywd2uW
— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) October 18, 2022
There are so many clips out there if Fauci demanding that the US (including the school systems) shut down for the pandemic. Below are just a few in the interest of saving you time—Because we all know that man just lied to Karl:
Fauci does it again. Claims he had NOTHING to do with the shutdowns. Do we have to play this compilation again? Apparently so. pic.twitter.com/73L2pDpABS
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) October 16, 2022
Then later when states started opening up against Fauci’s recommendations and saw success, Fauci stepped in to warn schools in larger cities to stay closed or at least partially closed:
8/4/20 Fauci on schools:
“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.”
In clip, he endorses Zoom education & school closures in areas w/ COVID transmission. Fauci has never been for full reopening. pic.twitter.com/eORstr2Lf8
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com (@JordanSchachtel) November 30, 2020
This wasn’t the first time Fauci tried to backpedal:
FAUCI: “I didn’t recommend locking anything down.”pic.twitter.com/CGJc12RSyo
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 26, 2022
It seems crazy to me the kind of backpedaling we’re all seeing. From Fauci to the White House, and even the CDC. I know that collectively, our memories may not be what they once were but my God—They’re not that bad!
Biden, just last month, blamed Trump for the school closings but in 2019 they were calling Trump the devil (basically) for not force ing a mass school closure on a federal level.
