BY MEGAN FOX | P J MEDIA
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is getting roasted all over social
media after the Washington Post and BuzzFeed released scores
of his emails, obtained through FOIA requests. The ones that aren’t heavily
redacted tell quite a story. It should come as no surprise to readers of PJ
Media that Dr. Fauci didn’t believe the line of crap he sold us about wearing
“the typical mask you buy in the drugstore” to protect us from the virus—at
least he didn’t in Feb. 2020.
“Masks are really for infected people to protect them
from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting
uninfected people from acquiring infection,” Fauci wrote in an email to Sylvia
Burwell, presumably President Barack Obama’s former HHS secretary. “The typical
mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus,
which is small enough to pass through the material.”
Recall that in March 2020 Fauci was telling people to
stop buying masks. We later learned that he made the recommendation because he
was “concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including
the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply.”
We’ve been telling you for a year that it’s written on
the boxes that drug-store masks are not sufficient to protect from viruses. Dr.
Fauci knew it then and he knows it now. Yet, STILL, our children are forced
into these things and made to wear them all day in order to participate in
school. He should be arrested and charged with the mass child abuse of
America’s children.
Somehow, advice for sick people to wear masks to avoid
infecting others morphed into “even healthy people have to wear masks,”
including people who are vaccinated, even after “asymptomatic spread” panic
never panned out. The level of convoluted nonsense here is off the scale.
PJ Media has written extensively about how Facebook decimated
our traffic and hurt our business over false fact-checks for raising questions
about the response to the virus. When our sister sites Townhall and
RedState reported that some scientists were questioning whether COVID-19 was
engineered or leaked from a lab, they got choked by the Big-Tech bullies and
told that we were spreading “fake news.”
An email Fauci received in Feb. 2020, obtained by
BuzzFeed, says that the COVID-19 virus showed signs of “potentially” being
engineered. Kristian Anderson, professor of immunology and microbiology
at Scripps Research, emailed Fauci saying, “The unusual features of the virus
make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really
closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially)
look engineered.”
Why was this point of view silenced? Who knows if that’s
true or not? Anderson’s email coincides with and echos a report suggesting the
possibility of an engineered virus, which was pulled a few days later for
factual errors.
To be clear: I strongly object to media outlets being
silenced and censored for reporting what one or more scientists think they’ve
found. Whatever it is, the public should hear it. If it is withdrawn later, as
was a report that made some scientists believe that COVID-19
might be engineered, then the press should report that. Scientific
integrity is preserved and the public is treated to a real-time look at how
science is never settled and is always changing and advancing or being
clarified. Most importantly, the public is treated like adults and not small
children who are incapable of understanding science and evolving studies.
Why are we being controlled like Chinese press outlets?
It doesn’t even matter if the virus was engineered or not. The fact that one or
more scientists have reason to believe it might be (even if they change their
minds at a later date) is newsworthy. It is not okay for the Big-Tech powers
that be to shut down any story they want and punish and silence media for
trying to tell it.
Back in February of 2020, anyone who reported that the
virus might be engineered or may have come from the Wuhan lab was censored and
defamed. In May of last year, Fauci declared: “If you look at the evolution of
the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very,
very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or
deliberately manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time
strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped
species.” Facebook censored any news outlet reporting that the virus may have
escaped from a Chinese facility. Recently, the establishment has admitted that the virus could have leaked
from the Wuhan lab, after dismissing that theory as a cooked-up “racist”
Trump provocation for the better part of a year. How dare they?
It’s true that our knowledge of the virus changed over
the months, but I don’t think there is any excuse for Fauci making half of
America believe that a cloth mask is some kind of magic solution against a
virus he knew to be far smaller than the holes in the masks. Nor is it
appropriate to have hidden ongoing studies and findings about the virus from
the public. It’s negligent and dishonest. This is the kind of thing that
dictatorships do. I am looking forward to Rand Paul’s next session with Dr.
Fauci at a Senate hearing.
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Megan Fox is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster,
and author of Believe
Evidence; the death of due process from Salome to #MeToo. and Shut
Up! The Bizarre War that One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment.
