As Dr. Fauci was raised to celebrity status in the spring of 2020 by Pres. Trump, few realized how powerful the doctor would become. Trump, who had been know as something of a germaphobe, was clearly worried about the Wuhan virus, which has now gone through many names: Corona, Covid 19, etc. The daily tv reports on the virus that featured several medical authorities, including Dr. Fauci, and the President, raised the immunologist to national attention. Though Fauci had made some bad predictions early in the virus era, that we did not have to worry about it, in time the rift between Fauci and Trump grew. Fauci became more of a lock-down advocate, thinking basically about the virus and how it might spread. Trump also had to consider the repercussions of lock-down - closing schools and what that would mean for youth, and for their parents who might not be able to work if the children had to remain home. Closed factories and stores. Unemployment. Social distancing brought social isolation for many. Drug abuse rose, and drug deaths. Spouse abuse rose, and child abuse too. Depression, economic and mental. Rise in suicides. And since the only permissable outdoor assembly was left-wing protest, riots, arsons, lootings, crime rose. But to prevent the spread of the virus in prisons and jails, many convicts were released, and some of them quickly returned to crime. Murder rates in large cities rose.
Pres. Trump sought to open up society; Dr. Fauci gave Democratic Mayors and Governors the green light for ever more crack downs. He rarely implied they would be long. After a month or so, there would be relaxation, people would gather, drink, eat, celebrate, and the virus would spread. Though the death rate was mainly among the elderly or those with pre-existing conditions, the major media (pro-Democrat) would stress the case rate. And since hospitals would earn more if a patient died of the virus, almost any death would be inspected looking for the virus, and be classified as cause of death. The infamous Minneapolis criminal George Floyd also had the virus when he died as police sought to arrest him. But he would not be classified as dying from the virus, because then the liberal authorities could not charge the police with murder.
When front-line medical workers asserted that combinations of cheap drugs could cure the virus, Dr Fauci attacked them. He demanded orthodoxy, and soon the dissenters were banned from major media and social media. Fauci, earlier in his career, had demanded the opponenets of the HIV theory of AIDS be silenced, and he succeeded. Free speech is not one of his values, nor free inquiry.
Dr. Fauci seems to favor lock down, a slight loosen up, lock down, loosen, and so on for years. Wear the mask. You must obey. Dr. Fauci, a carreer beaurocrat, is undoubtedly a Democrat, and "President Elect" Joe Biden will make him a chief advisor. A frew months ago Fauci was diverting US funds to a laboratory in Wuhan, and he has friends in large pharmeceutical corporations.
Because Dr. Fauci is so important today, and better known than the fabled Dr. Faustus, I suggest a word to summarize his views - FAUCISM. This would be pronounced fauchism, to distinguish it from fascism. Though they may be closer than one realizes.
HUGH MURRAY
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