Dr. Anthony Fauci, the 80-year-old, lifelong Washington bureaucrat, has been wrong on COVID about as much as he has been right. Yet he projects being wrong with the same conviction as when he is right. It is confusing.
First, he dismissed COVID, saying on Jan. 21, 2020, “But this is not a major threat to the people of the United States, and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.”
Then he said we do not need to wear masks. Somehow the science changed on virus-spreading mechanisms, and we had to have masks. What followed was an authoritarian word salad of political nonsense, cloaked in this arrogant air of “follow the science” – science which changed on a whim. To question Fauci made you a heretic in left-wing salons across the fruited plains.
We ended up getting our medical advice from a government health scientist who also tells us that a woman can become a man just by changing her pronoun and demanding that others call her a man.
Now COVID is supposedly under control, with more and more Americans vaccinated. We can go back to being able to lick doorknobs again if we want. When I asked my doctor when she thought COVID would end, she said, “I am just a doctor, I am not much into politics.”