Explosive testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci reveals he invented the six-foot social distancing rule and other measures to “protect” Americans from Covid.
Republicans released the full transcript of their January interview with Fauci, just days before his long-awaited public testimony on Monday.
They plan to question him about the Covid restrictions he implemented, which he admitted did little to “slow the spread” of the virus.
Children’s learning loss and social setbacks are well documented, according to a National Institute of Health (NIH) study rating the impact of mask-wearing on students’ literacy and learning was “very negative.”
And the impacts of social distancing caused “depression, generalized anxiety, acute stress, and intrusive thoughts,” another NIH study found.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the six-foot social distancing rule “just came out” and said he “could have” reviewed studies on mask use in children, but ” “That’s still up for debate.” air’
Speaking to counsel on behalf of the committee earlier this year, Fauci told Republicans that the six-foot social distancing rule “just came out” and that he didn’t remember how it came about.
‘You know, I don’t remember. “She just showed up,” she said, according to committee transcripts, when asked how the rule came about.
He added that he was “not aware of any studies” supporting social distancing, and admitted that such studies “would be very difficult” to conduct.
In addition to not recalling any evidence supporting social distancing, Fauci also told the committee’s attorney that he did not recall reading anything to support that masking children would prevent COVID.
‘Do you remember reviewing any studies or data that support the use of masks in children?’ They Asked.
“I don’t remember,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told the committee when asked where the six-foot social distancing rule came from. “It just showed up.”
When pressed about forced masking of children, Fauci couldn’t remember if he read anything that supported the fact that it would prevent disease.
“I could have,” he responded before adding, “but I don’t specifically remember doing it.”
The pandemic patriarch also testified that he had not followed up any subsequent studies on the impacts that forced mask-wearing had on children, which have been numerous.
And his response was a tongue-in-cheek COVID-style pun: “I still think that’s up in the air,” Fauci said about whether masking children was a solid way to prevent transmission.
Additionally, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) told the lawyer that he believes the lab leak theory – the idea that COVID began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) – is a real “possibility.”
“I think people have interpreted this as a conspiracy,” he said, adding that “it could be a lab leak.”
“So I think that in itself is not inherently a conspiracy theory, but some people make things out of it that are a little crazy.”
His admission that COVID may have started at WIV comes four years after he endorsed the publication of a paper that poured cold water on the lab leak theory called the ‘Proximate Origin’ paper.
The former NIAID director gave the committee a suspicious answer about whether he was conducting gain-of-function research.
Former NIAID Director Said Lab Leak Theory Could Be True
The coronavirus committee has spent months uncovering the origins of the virus that disrupted so many lives and killed 6 million people around the world.
They recently discovered that Fauci’s former top aide, Dr. David Morens, was performing routine work on his personal email account and deleting files to avoid government transparency laws under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
His disregard for FOIA requests was so blatant that he boasted in emails to colleagues that he learned how to make official correspondence “disappear” and that he deleted things he didn’t “want to see in the New York Times.”
Morens’ emails uncovered by the committee further revealed that he bragged about having a “secret channel” with Fauci where he could clandestinely communicate with the former NIAID director.
That revelation so shocked committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, that he demanded Fauci turn over his personal email and phone records to the investigative body.
Also shocking is Fauci’s admission to the committee in January that he “never” examines the grants he approved, some of which total millions of taxpayer dollars.
‘You know, technically, I approve of every piece of advice, but I don’t look at the grants or what they are. “I never look at what grants there are,” he told the committee’s attorney.
Additionally, he said he was “not sure” that foreign labs receiving U.S. grants, such as the WIV, which was studying coronaviruses using U.S. taxpayer dollars at the time the pandemic began, were operating to the same standards as the American laboratories.
Fauci also said that the money he gave as part of the NIAID grant process did not go through any national security reviews.
Former top Fauci aide Dr. David Morens speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill on May 22.
Fauci said the money he gives to laboratories abroad is not reviewed for national security reasons
Additionally, the former director said he was not aware of any conflict of interest among his staff, including his senior advisor, Dr. Morens.
However, Morens testified before the committee on May 22 that he helped his “best friend,” EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak, with his nonprofit’s work.
Morens said he helped edit EcoHealth press releases and worked to restore grant funding for the nonprofit after its funding was terminated in the wake of the COVID outbreak in 2020.
NIH, which employs Morens, funded Daszak’s EcoHealth to the tune of millions of dollars.
Still, Fauci said he was not aware of Morens having any conflict of interest.
The committee will surely seek to clarify Fauci and Moren’s ‘secret channel of communication’ during the June 3 hearing.