Someone’s in a good mood this week.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said on Thursday that it has been “liberating” to work with the newly installed President Joe Biden, a change from the tensions he had with President Donald Trump.
Asked at a White House press briefing about whether he feels “less constrained” under the new administration, Fauci, Biden’s chief medical advisor, replied:
I can tell you I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president, so it was really something that you didn’t feel you could actually say something and there wouldn’t be any repercussions about it. The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence and science is, and know that’s it — let the science speak — it is somewhat of a liberating feeling.
Fauci took aim at President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
“It was very clear that there were things that were said regarding things like hydroxychloroquine and other things like that, that was uncomfortable because they were not based on scientific fact,” Fauci said.
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The NIAID chief added that his willingness to contradict the former president was “why I got in trouble sometimes,” but maintained that he does not have the same fears about working with Biden. Continued Fauci,
One of the things that was very clear as recently as about 15 minutes ago when I was with the president, is that one of the things we’re going to do is be completely transparent, open, and honest. If things go wrong, not point fingers but correct them, and to make everything we do be based on science and evidence. That was literally a conversation I had 15 minutes ago with the president, and he has said that multiple times.
Fauci did say that the Trump administration made some headway in distributing vaccine doses, shooting down a CNN report that the Biden administration was left nothing to work with.
“We certainly are not starting from scratch,” he said, adding, “We’re coming in with fresh ideas, but also some ideas that were not bad ideas with the previous administration. You can’t say it was absolutely not usable at all.”
“It’s taking what’s going on, but amplifying it in a big way.”
Nevertheless, the NIAID director said that alleged lack of candor from President Trump about the virus “very likely” cost American lives.
“Particularly when you’re in the situation of almost being in a crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have — when you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful,” said Fauci.
Fauci proudly announced this week that Biden is reversing President Trump’s withdrawal from the pro-China World Health Organization (WHO).
“The Biden Administration also intends to be fully engaged in advancing global health, supporting global health security and the Global Health Security Agenda, and building a healthier future for all people,” Fauci declared in his speech before the WHO Executive Board.
Fauci has been one of the chief mouthpieces for the establishment in drumming up fear to justify overreaching COVID-19 restrictions. He has stated that, even with the vaccine being distributed to Americans, life won’t go back to “normal” until Fall of this year.
He has also declared that government leaders should be “as forceful as possible” in getting Americans to wear face masks.
Joe Biden is following Fauci’s “wisdom” on the face-mask issue. One of his first acts as president was to sign an executive order requiring the wearing of masks on all federal property. But after that, the new president was spotted maskless on federal property on several occasions, including for a photo opp at the Lincoln Memorial.
Asked about the clear hypocrisy and law-breaking by the president of the United States, Biden’s press secretary, Jennifer Psaki, said he has “bigger issues” to worry about.
Just imagine if Kayleigh McEnany had said that about President Trump. The media and Democrat Party would have been calling for his head.
It’s just another case of “rules for thee, but not for me.” Sadly, the nonsensical, anti-science, tyrannical COVID madness that has swept the country over the last year is likely to continue unabated now that Joe Biden is giving Anthony Fauci more room to impose his will on America.
