Early in the pandemic, when asked by the former president to support the former president’s false statements during a news conference, Fauci declined.
By my conservative estimates, which are admittedly subject to error, the partisan propaganda campaign that resulted has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in the US. This campaign has promoted outright medical quackery like the original report out of Marseille supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine — which removed the patients who died from the study. It’s promoted the not-even-quackery of the Demon Semen crew.
It’s promoted heavily armed men invading the Michigan capital, repeatedly, and members of that crew plotting to kidnap the Michigan governor. It’s promoted anti-vaccination and anti-masking activism.
And it’s made Anthony Fauci who has been leading the nation through public health crises for decades into a favored target of the right fringe.
By my conservative estimates, which are admittedly subject to error, the partisan propaganda campaign that resulted has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in the US. This campaign has promoted outright medical quackery like the original report out of Marseille supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine — which removed the patients who died from the study. It’s promoted the not-even-quackery of the Demon Semen crew.
It’s promoted heavily armed men invading the Michigan capital, repeatedly, and members of that crew plotting to kidnap the Michigan governor. It’s promoted anti-vaccination and anti-masking activism.
And it’s made Anthony Fauci who has been leading the nation through public health crises for decades into a favored target of the right fringe.
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