Twilight of a Quack: Tony Fauci at Sunset

This week Anthony Fauci did America and the world a great favor in announcing his resignation from NIAID. Forty years too late, but I’ll take it. Thus ends, perhaps, the career of one of the most destructive scoundrels in the history of U.S. public service. That may seem like a rash statement. There’s certainly passion behind it, because I, like many other Americans, have good reason to despise the man. But I’ve compared Fauci’s career with other American scoundrels, and his stacks up pretty well.

Benedict Arnold ran up a lot of debt while the Continental Congress struggled to keep summer soldiers in shoe leather, and he hatched a get-rich-quick scheme that would have been devastating for the patriot cause. But he failed. The only true harm was to Major André, who wound up getting his neck stretched. General James Wilkinson was a paid Spanish agent while the highest-ranking military officer on the frontier. He feathered a nice bed for himself, but he didn’t turn Memphis over to Castile. Aaron Burr (after killing Alexander Hamilton) might have been plotting to separate some of the Louisiana Territory from the United States and found his own country, but he also failed. The Secession, which plunged the country into bloody Civil War, was a group effort, so we can’t hang all the blame on Jefferson Davis.

My favorite in the running is the Communist traitor Alger Hiss, who convinced FDR at Yalta to give Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union after WWII, and not only got the U.S.S.R into the United Nations, but got them a permanent seat on the Security Council, thereby guaranteeing that the U.N. would be a force for worldwide corruption and utterly useless at everything else. The toll of human misery that worthless parasite caused is truly incalculable.

The proliferation of dastards in our contemporary times is hard to assess. There’s much we don’t know about the rampant corruption of the Clintons, Obama and Biden. When that comes to light, if ever, it’s likely to dwarf the malfeasance of any heads of state since the Roman Empire. But limiting this discussion to lower-level public servants, none of the aforementioned comes close to Fauci, in the amount of damage inflicted, not just on this country and its people, but to the entire world.

Fauci succeeded in thoroughly corrupting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making the agency that should have acted in the best interests of the American people a tool of Big Pharma. Under Fauci, public health policy bowed to the altar of corporate profits, and totally ignored efficacy. In partnership with Bill Gates, Fauci also contributed to the total corruption of the World Health Organization. (Even though, as a U.N. agency, it was going to get there eventually even without his help.) Fauci crushed the careers of promising researchers, as he grasped for total control of the government health apparatus, subverted real scientific research in favor of a rubber stamp for potentially profitable drugs, and, in our latest “crisis,” suppressed cheap, effective and readily available remedies in favor of an experimental “vaccine” that proved ineffective and dangerous.

In the early days of COVID, I, like most Americans, listened to Dr. Fauci, who seemed to be a voice of reason and authority. It didn’t hurt that he had gone to my alma mater, Regis High School, which has a reputation for turning out intelligent, Jesuit-educated professionals, who are “men for others.” But Fauci lied. And he admitted he lied to influence our behavior. That tipped me off that he was not to be trusted. He was a manipulator, who trafficked in appearances rather than truth.

The fact that he had been in the same job for 40 years also raised a serious red flag, that he was the most loathsome type of bureaucratic detritus: the empire builder. These are the egomaniacal weasels who get into an organization and subvert its mission to serve their purposes, growing their little office or department to a point of dominance, until the entire organization revolves around their fiefdom. It’s no surprise that even though Fauci was the head of NIAID, a department within the National Institutes of Health, everyone looked at him as the de facto head of NIH.

As someone who believes in staying in his own lane and doing the job he signed up for, I hate empire builders. Fauci’s empire building made him a cozy bedfellow of Big Pharma, and I’d really like to know more about the financials in that relationship. But first there’s the matter of how Fauci began his empire. For this, and a detailed examination of Fauci’s nefarious career, I heartily recommend Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s meticulously researched book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.

I realize invoking RFK, Jr.’s name is going to cue multitudinous eye rolls. He’s been pilloried as an “anti-vaxxer” and a crank. But it’s clear to me from reading his book, that he is neither. He’s a citizen with questions that threaten powerful interests, so they, and their colleagues in our supine media, have disparaged him to silence his message. Pharma’s libelous response to Kennedy’s legitimate concerns recalls the old adage, “When you cut out a man’s tongue, you do not prove him wrong; you only prove you fear what he might say.”

Kennedy begins by saying that NIAID was pretty much a backwater of NIH when Fauci took over. Small pox had been eradicated, polio was under control, and the flu was simply a seasonal visitor, thus infectious disease was not as sexy as cancer or even heart disease. NIAID was the type of post where you’d expect to find a mediocre mind satisfied with a steady government paycheck, rather than a research scientist of any stature. Fauci was never much of a scientist, but he was an ambitious and grasping bureaucrat with an instinct for self-promotion. Yet for all his ambition, Fauci knew he wouldn’t go anywhere without an outbreak of a deadly infectious disease. Then came reports out of New York of a mysterious “gay cancer.” That malady would form the cornerstone of Fauci’s empire.

Like many people my age, I lost many friends during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ‘90s. Reading Kennedy’s book opened old wounds for me, because Kennedy makes a credible case that Fauci’s mishandling of AIDS turned an outbreak into an epidemic. One comes away thinking that hundreds if not thousands of men died who did not need to, because of the poisonous protocols an incompetent, ambitious quack dictated to the nation and to the world at large.

Kennedy explains how Anthony Fauci, desperate for a disease that would give his department relevance, seized on the unsubstantiated notion that a retrovirus called HIV was the cause of AIDS. Retroviruses are generally benign, and even Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who discovered HIV, has never claimed it causes AIDS. But, as Kennedy explains, the virus theory allowed Fauci to claim the exciting, new disease—and the subsequent billions in funding to combat it—for NIAID. Capturing AIDS was a coup for Fauci, but there was no science to support the HIV theory. No research since has proved a causal connection. And in making his premature and perhaps erroneous declaration, Fauci cut off inquiries into other possible causes of AIDS. One of these was poppers.

Poppers were a party drug for the gay sex scene of the 1970s and 1980s. They were capsules containing amyl nitrite, a substance that relaxed the lower digestive tract to facilitate male-on-male intercourse. Amyl nitrite has the unfortunate side effect of making the human immune system collapse, allowing wasting diseases and cancers, such as Kaposi’s sarcoma, the signature AIDS condition, to take hold. The first AIDS patients were, according to Kennedy, all hard-core users of poppers who were hyperactive on the gay sex scene. In this context, Fauci’s declaration, which cleared poppers of suspicion and put the focus on a possibly benign retrovirus, reads like a negotiated settlement with AIDS activists. Fauci promises that NIH will not criticize the gay lifestyle, if its militant arm will take government money and get on board with Fauci’s program. (We see this same arrangement playing out again in our current monkey pox “emergency.”) If this distillation of appearances is accurate, the consequences have been calamitous.

As Kennedy explains, the determination via fiat that HIV caused AIDS was followed by an explosion of cases. But was that a natural progression of a rampant infectious disease, or the obscene consequence of a titanic blunder? Let’s imagine for a second that Fauci was wrong. and that the poppers were the real problem.

If poppers caused AIDS, telling gay men to stop using them would have arrested the disease. But that message didn’t get out. At-risk men were encouraged to be tested for HIV, so they could receive early treatment that might possibly save their lives. This strategy allowed activists to keep the lifestyle alive, while sacrificing actual lives. Ad campaigns assured gay men that the only behavior they needed to change was to use a condom as a barrier against the dread virus. And if you caught the virus, even if you were still in peak health, you needed to quickly avail yourself to Tony Fauci’s remedy: a brutal concoction known as AZT that was so toxic it obliterated the human immune system, causing a wasting disease that was indistinguishable from AIDS.

If poppers were the true cause of AIDS, tens of thousands of perfectly healthy men with a benign retrovirus were given a useless yet lethal drug that caused them to waste away. Meanwhile their treating physicians assured them it was the HIV, suddenly enraged, that was killing them, and that stopping their AZT treatment would only mean a quicker death. If poppers were the problem, Tony Fauci has committed medical murder on a Pol Pot scale. Yet even if HIV was and is the root cause of AIDS, the known toxicity of AZT should have disqualified it as a treatment. Kennedy asserts that Fauci chose AZT because the drug had a fresh patent, and there were royalties to be had. It strikes me as no coincidence at all that people started being able to “manage their HIV” as soon as they were given less toxic alternatives than AZT. HIV is no longer a death sentence, but maybe it never had to be.

After the crisis in America waned, the HIV killing spree continued on the continent of Africa. Fauci convinced Pres. G. W. Bush to pump billions of dollars into HIV medication to stem the tide of African AIDS, though still, no causal connection or even a consistent correlation between HIV and AIDS was ever established. If Kennedy is right, couldn’t the wasting disease afflicting the poor on the African continent have been caused by foul water and malnutrition, and better remedied by agrarian infrastructure than by highly toxic pharmaceuticals?

Fast forward to COVID. This time we have the advantage of knowing a virus is the root problem. But once again, Tony Fauci started by offering up a toxic remedy, remdesivir, which had failed testing for efficacy and safety. Remdesivir is so toxic, it was ruled unsafe to treat Ebola. Yet, Tony Fauci declared remdesivir to be THE protocol for treating COVID, and banned the use of safe, effective and cheap remedies, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Fauci banned off-label use of those approved drugs, ostensibly because they haven’t been double-blind placebo tested for this particular ailment. But he exempts remdesivir, a known threat to human life, from that same requirement. Remdesivir has been shown to cause kidney failure, which in turn causes the lungs to fill with fluid, so the patient cannot breathe. In this way, remdesivir toxicity mimics COVID, the same way AZT poisoning resembled full-blown AIDS. But remdesivir has a patent, and in Tony Fauci’s calculations, royalties matter more than human life.

On December 11, 2021 The Epoch Times reported that Colleen DeLuca, 62, died of COVID-19 on Oct. 10, at Jefferson Washington Township Hospital in Sewell, New Jersey. Her husband, David DeLuca had secured a prescription for ivermectin from an out-of-state doctor and was seeking a court order to compel the hospital to administer the drug when his wife passed away. Dr. Fauci’s suppression of remedies had claimed another life. And, perhaps, Mrs. DeLuca’s passing from COVID was actually a disguised case of remdesivir poisoning. In this age of thoroughly corrupted health practices, we’ll never know.

In addition, Fauci pushed an experimental “vaccine,” which was not proven scientifically to be safe or effective, and has racked up a record number of adverse incident reports on the VAERS system. Myocarditis, blood clots, heart attack, stroke, and Guillain-Barré Syndrome are just a few of the common complaints. And a new acronym has entered the American lexicon: SADS, for sudden adult death syndrome. Once again, thousands of perfectly healthy people may have had their health destroyed because they listened to Tony Fauci’s medical advice. And that’s just in the first year and a half of the “vaccine” rollout. The long-term effects of Fauci’s potion are unknown and unknowable.

Kennedy explains that one of Fauci’s tactics for covering his misdeeds is to eliminate placebo groups. In one vaccine trial, when he didn’t get the results he wanted, Fauci vaccinated the placebo group, so the vaccine’s long-term consequences couldn’t be measured. Might this be the reasoning behind his aggressive push for universal vaccination, despite the general belief that widespread vaccination during a pandemic will only cause a rash of variants? Yet, this serial destroyer of medical evidence appears on television and arrogantly declares, that in criticizing his directives, “They’re really criticizing science, because I represent science. That’s dangerous.”

Fauci no more represents science than he embodies medical ethics, in which the primary rule is “First, do no harm.” This time, he’s not going to be able to eliminate the control group. Thanks to Bobby Kennedy, Jr. and others who have blown the whistle on Fauci’s infamous career, too many of us are on to him. There are millions of “vaccine” refuseniks who will be the control group. God willing, Anthony Fauci will finally be held to answer for the carnage his quackery has caused.

Sadly, Fauci’s culpability may run even deeper than hack medicine. There is mounting evidence that COVID was, in fact, developed in a gain-of-function lab secretly funded by Tony Fauci, and that Fauci conspired to suppress investigations into the lab theory. We can only hope that the walls are closing in on Fauci and that he’ll leave NIAID in December without destroying all evidence of his misdeeds.

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In 1990, I moved into an apartment in the Sunset District of San Francisco. One of my neighbors was tall and rail thin, with a clear and shiny pate. He had a quick smile and a hearty, volcanic laugh. The first time I met Chris in the hallway, I mentioned that I enjoyed hearing his piano in the evenings. I told him I sang. He nodded politely and promised not to play too late in the evenings. A couple of days later, I was doing dishes. As Chris started pounding out show tunes, I sang along. After a few minutes, the piano stopped and there was a knock at my door.

“You really do sing,” Chris said, gleefully, and proceeded to recruit me for his choral group, which I joined for a season. Shortly after our spring concert, the piano went silent. Chris had gotten sick. He started carrying a backpack of supplemental oxygen. Eventually, he was hospitalized. I visited him after work and, because he couldn’t focus his eyes, I read to him. After a few weeks, Chris was transferred to another facility, nominally a hospital, but functioning as a hospice for young men like Chris. I went to visit him there, and found him in physical pain and emotional distress. Before I could return again, I got word Chris had passed.

I’m thinking a lot about Chris these days, as well as Steve, Robert, and Paul, all men who died of AIDS but maybe didn’t have to. They should have gotten better answers 30 years ago. They and we need to get justice now.

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