Thread summarizing what we’ve learned so far of the Fauci/Collins email dump on the Great Barrington Declaration:
It starts on 10/14/20 when Collins instructs Fauci and his staff to “take down” the GBD and the “fringe” scientists behind it. pic.twitter.com/XyTWINMOnG
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
Fauci responds immediately by circulating an article against the GBD from that austere scientific authority, @WiredUK. pic.twitter.com/GSnvJGLwOi
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
The Fauci-endorsed Wired article is noteworthy for having one of the single worst hot-takes of the entire pandemic. It declared in October 2020 that the GBD should be ignored, because lockdowns were a thing of the past and would not be returning! https://t.co/o1nTEuO4tr pic.twitter.com/U3LtPK97zc
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
The next day, Fauci sends Collins an angry rant against the GBD in the @TheNation by @gregggonsalves.
Collins approves. pic.twitter.com/jstxmUb4Ay
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
Far from a scientific study refuting the GBD, Gonsalves’s article is a political op-ed attacking @Jacobin magazine for breaking “solidarity” with other far-left media outlets on lockdowns. Why? Because Jacobin ran an interview with @MartinKulldorff on how lockdowns hurt the poor. pic.twitter.com/0j85WlKiwY
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
Over the weekend, Collins launches the smear campaign against the GBD in the Washington Post.https://t.co/WwrcdJUoC4 pic.twitter.com/xw42r2WGqR
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
Collins and Fauci email each other about the WaPo hit, with Fauci quipping that the White House was “too busy with other things to worry about this” – perhaps an election reference? – and therefore would not push back on the anti-GBD campaign. pic.twitter.com/CVxqSbPSS3
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
In the meantime, Gonsalves also gets in contact with Collins to volunteer his services (along with future @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky) to attack the GBD in the media.
Collins approves, and forwards it to Fauci and a bunch of NIH underlings. pic.twitter.com/UJ2t7C18AA
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
In the meantime, @gregggonsalves was having a public meltdown against the GBD on twitter.https://t.co/kRWcwYO92Z pic.twitter.com/fXH7kIA3o2
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
The emails get murky around 10/14/20, because the NIH redacted a bunch of emails that appear to be between Fauci and Collins.
Surrounding context suggests they were discussing how to trash the GBD if it came up at the WH Covid task force meeting on 10/16. pic.twitter.com/k3w3pZRhJd
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
On the morning of the Covid task force meeting, Fauci sends Deborah Birx this email alerting her about the need to oppose the GBD at the meeting. The unredacted part suggests they are preparing to attack @ScottWAtlas, who was perceived as the task force’s champion of the GBD. pic.twitter.com/iqYbiTiZxo
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
10/16/20 is as far as I’ve gotten in piecing together the story of what happened. Still more documents to go through, including some more explosive revelations about where Fauci was getting his anti-GBD talking points. So stay tuned!
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
*typo in the above. The first email about “taking down” the GBD was on 10/8/20 – three days after the GBD broke into the news and went viral.
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 18, 2021
Fauci is liked the James Bond of virology.
But I bet he cries less than James Bond.
Mad props.
RT:
Newly released emails show Anthony Fauci and his boss at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to conduct a “quick and devastating” take-down of health experts who proposed a lockdown-free Covid-19 control strategy.
The emails, released on Friday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, show retiring NIH Director Francis Collins telling Fauci in October 2020 to discredit the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) – a statement that proposes working towards achieving herd immunity through “focused protection” of the most vulnerable.e
Days after the GBD was released, Collins notified Fauci and other health officials about how the proposal from “three fringe epidemiologists” was getting a “lot of attention” and called for a “quick and devastating published take down of its premises.”
A short time later, Fauci emails Collins an op-ed from Wired magazine that “debunks this theory” and calls out the three scientists – Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, and Jay Bhattacharya, a public health policy expert at Stanford University – for touting an approach without “following the scientific method” for peer-reviewed hypotheses.
After Collins lauds this “excellent” response, Fauci sends him another op-ed in The Nation magazine that “[refuted] the herd immunity approach.” Collins replies agreeing with article that the idea is a “deadly delusion.”
Emails mean nothing.
Media won’t report, story disappears.
Fauci is bulletproof not only because leftists like him, but because the Democrats literally do not have a team.
They would have to like, go hire Tom Hanks to run the coronavirus hoax.
Yes, that’s a real CDC tweet.