A Cover Up or Incompetence
Thanks to a federal Freedom of Information Act request, hundreds of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails have been published by Buzz Feed, the Washington Post, CNN and others.
CNN focused on the weight of the pressure of the pandemic on the doctor…all quite personal, and complimentary.
Other outlets, however, focused on specifics…like funding for the Wuhan lab, emails contradicting his public statements on topics such as the origin of the virus, and so on.
I’ve said frequently that I have plenty of grace for public officials during the first few months of the pandemic, because it appeared all were acting in what they thought was the best interests of the public with the information available at the time. I stand by that.
But far too many, including the doctor, have issued multiple, contradictory statements…and these emails underscore that. So were the public statements an attempt to cover up things some would prefer we not know…or was it sheer incompetence?
Nothing is a coincidence in this world, so the fact that pre-sales for a forthcoming book about Fauci were pulled from on-line booksellers mere hours after the story of the emails broke is interesting. The publisher, National Geographic, claimed that the pre-sale notice was posted earlier than intended, so it was pulled. Guessing they didn’t refund any of the money from sales. The publisher says Fauci himself will receive no royalties. The book is tied to a documentary NatGeo is doing about Fauci; no word on whether he received payment for his work with that.
There’s a tendency to be so fed up with COVID-related items that this Fauci email story might slide by unnoticed by lots of folks. But the China lab funding and the contradiction with public statements and policy alone makes it all worthy of notice…especially since Fauci is the current president’s chief medical advisor.
