Epidemiologist Michael Savage: Lockdowns “Ridiculous”; “Dr. Virus” Fauci Is a “Madman”
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Will the civilizational destruction wrought by the current lockdowns become known as Fauci’s Folly? Radio giant Michael Savage, a trained epidemiologist and author of close to 20 health and nutrition books, certainly might think it should. In fact, in his usual take-no-prisoners style, he recently condemned Dr. Anthony Fauci (shown) as a “Nazi,” a “swamp” creature,” and “snake in chief” who’s fatally mismanaging the Wuhan virus response.

The award-winning radio host made the comments last week on his show, The Savage Nation. Opening the program addressing Fauci’s statist talk of issuing Americans “immunity cards,” Dr. Savage pointed out that this is an intrusive, fascistic idea and wholly unnecessary.

“Fauci wants us to have immunity cards,” warned the host, calling the Wuhan-virus response point man “Obergruppenführer, Herr Doktor Fauci”; a “Nazi”; and “the snake in chief.” “He is the swamp,” Savage said of Fauci.

Fauci, long-time head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been a driving force behind the “lockdowns” that are ravaging our economy and threaten to collapse our civilization. In fact, at an April 2 CNN town hall, Fauci advised shelter-in-place guidelines for all 50 states.

“We must not listen to this madman, Dr. Virus,” Savage said in response to such counsel. Fauci “says that the lockdowns will end when the virus tells us to,” the host continued. “Well, what, does he talk to the virus at night? He’s a virus whisperer?”

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Savage recommends, and emphasizes the need for, “selective quarantines.” “You can’t do this to the nation; this is ridiculous,” he explained. “There are both whole states that are largely immune from this viral epidemic; there are certainly counties within states that are virtually immune from this viral epidemic” (radio segment/video below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32LvOlpN5s

In fact, Savage pointed out what I also voiced last week. “Governors are generally applying a one-size-fits-all [lockdown] policy,” I wrote. “New York’s law, for example, affects the whole state. But does it make sense to apply NYC’s disease-prevention rules to an Empire State county that’s as rural as West Virginia and has few infections? Should the same guidelines apply in extreme southern Illinois as in Chicago?”

Yet political correctness is getting in the way, Savage avers. He said that while it would make sense to quarantine, for example, Los Angeles, California governor Gavin Newsom wouldn’t do this partially because he fears “racism” accusations.

(Note that this is why ideas matter. We for years tolerated racial demagoguery and insanity, and now it’s contributing to a virus response that could collapse our economy.)

Savage is not alone in warning about Fauci’s Folly. Professor Knut Wittkowski, the former long-time head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City, recently did likewise. He stated that the Wuhan virus could be “exterminated” in weeks if we merely allowed people to behave normally and establish “herd immunity” while isolating and protecting vulnerable groups.

Then there are the other experts I’ve recently cited — an MIT biological engineer (whom Savage interviewed in the radio segment above), a leading virologist, and a Stanford epidemiologist — who all warn that a nationwide lockdown is counterproductive.

So why does Fauci persist with the destructive strategy? Note here that the rationale behind it, slowing the rate of infection so that the healthcare system won’t be overwhelmed, no longer exists. For even the computer models factoring in mitigation efforts greatly overestimated Wuhan-virus hospitalization rates.

When asked about this, Professor Wittkowski explained Fauci’s behavior by saying, “Well, I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science.”

But Savage might say that Fauci has never done science. Fauci mishandled the AIDs crisis in the 1980s, Savage pointed out, as he preferred political correctness to medical correctness and wouldn’t characterize the disease as what it was: Something afflicting mainly homosexuals. Instead, Sky is Falling Fauci made the ridiculous claim that the disease would break out into the general population, which never happened.

For sure is that Sky is Falling is either dishonest or remarkably forgetful. Just consider the tweet and embedded video below, which show Fauci revising history and exonerating himself from blame.

 

 

Fauci has also said that life could return to normal when there are no more Wuhan virus hospitalizations/deaths, which he knows, Savage stated, is an impossibility (we can’t prevent the tens of thousands of yearly flu deaths, either). In other words, Sky is Falling was essentially saying life can never return to normal.

(And they wonder why conspiracy theories arise.)

Savage in addition pointed out, based on his analysis of comprehensive April 6 disease data, that while Wuhan virus deaths were rising, flu-related deaths had supposedly dropped almost to zero.

Implication: Flu deaths are being counted among the Wuhan virus deaths.

Of course, it was already known that the latter numbers are inflated, as the authorities are counting anyone dying, from any cause, with the Wuhan virus in his system as a Wuhan virus death. As Savage put it, you can be hit by a bus and they’ll thus categorize you if you harbor the virus.

Savage also said, alluding to the big-government threat, that even at his age he’d head for the hills and join a militia if “immunity cards” became a reality. The good news is that he may not have to, as there’s some indication President Trump may replace Fauci.

It is time to fire Fauci and fire up the economy before we thrust ourselves into a great depression that could lead to millions more deaths from other causes. For the Fauci strategy seems to be that we’ll destroy the disease alright, yes sir — by burning its host to ashes.

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Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke) has written for The New American for more than a decade. He has also written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily, American Thinker, and many other print and online publications. In addition, he has contributed to college textbooks published by Gale-Cengage Learning, has appeared on television, and is a frequent guest on radio.