Dr. Fauci is a national treasure and a hero to all those that survived the pandemic.

There is no there, there.

Dr. Fauci is not a punching bag for the likes of Rand Paul. Paul is PO'ed because Dr. Fauci always answers him with dignity and grace and makes sense. No one can say that about Rand Paul's questions of anyone he embarks on to make a political commercial and free B Role.

I am serious about the lawsuits. The political attacks are a bunch of hogwash. Rand Paul and FOX News would love to drive Dr. Fauci right out of the government positions he holds. That is a fact and it is vicious defamation.

June 3, 2021
By Nachiket Mhatre

02 Jun 2021: Dr. Fauci's leaked 2020 emails (click here) reveal knowledge of lab-leak theory

Not long after Dr Anthony Fauci changed his tune on the possibility that the COVID-19 could be man-made, more skeletons tumble out of the US medical advisor's closet. A massive cache of email correspondence obtained by BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post reveal that Dr. Fauci was appraised of the possibility that the SARS-COV-2 virus could have been bioengineered in a lab....

To begin with, there were no government leaks. These emails were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

DAH!

Gee, do you think Dr. Fauci knew that a lab could produce such a thing as a virus? It is called biological warfare. He has the credentials and the position to speculate on such issues. There is no skeletons in Dr. Fauci's closet. He was engaging his freedom of speech power to communicate with others about issues of the day and this has been an issue since Trump called it The Chinese Virus.

June 3, 2021

Key points raised by critics (click here) such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) concern the alleged NIH funding of dangerous bioengineering ("gain of function") research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Dr. Fauci's responses to questions about this....

I watched this interchange between Fauci and Paul. Rand Paul was pathetic. Dr. Fauci clearly stated to him there was no funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 'gain of function' (click here) research. That is correct.

Get for real people. The USA government is going to fund gain of function research in China? That is just about the most stupid thing I have ever heard reported. This is all about discrediting a very valuable science-based part of the USA government, the NIH. The Republicans absolutely love to play "we are the people" and let's topple the government at every turn. The USA could not function without the NIH.

I will comment on the points being made by other physicians and surgeons below.

The NIH funds for research at the university in Wuhan were for the discovery of sources of the coronavirus that continues to plague the world. Those monies were once accompanied by American scientists to be sure they were applied to the proper research in the proper way. Trump ended that. He pulled the scientists from China because he didn't want to fund them anymore. American scientists were completely welcome in China to assist with the prevention and/or the discovery of disease. Got that? Our scientists were welcome in the labs in China, even the ones at the university in question.

The comment was once made about the discovery of SARS under the Bush White House that the president knew about the virus before the Chinese president did. Why? Because American scientists were on the ground with Chinese scientists as issues presented themselves. The lack of that connectedness was witnessed with the Chinese physician screaming to his government that there was a virus killing the people in Wuhan. The Chinese government wanted nothing to do with a screaming physician. YET, if the President of the USA called up President Xi Jinping there would be something done about it and probably with the assistance of the Americans in China.

You can say what you want, but, there was no relationship between Trump and Xi. End of discussion over that. There is nothing that can be done by the NIH with monies proposed for specific purposes if the American component is not in China. We still don't know if that funding was misused and we will never know. This is all noise by Rand Paul and FOX News to push some kind of political agenda to remove President Biden from office and defame the Democrats in the 2022 elections.

May 25, 2021
By Samuel Chamberlin

The National Institutes of Health earmarked $600,000 (click here) for the Wuhan Institute of Virology over a five-year period to study whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted to humans, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci told lawmakers Tuesday.

Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the money was funneled to the Chinese lab through the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance to fund “a modest collaboration with very respectable Chinese scientists who were world experts on coronavirus.”

But Fauci emphatically denied that the money went toward so-called “gain of function” research, which he described as “taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more transmissible and/or pathogenic for humans.”

“That categorically was not done,” he insisted.

Rand Paul has no proof otherwise, but, he never stops. He goes on and on about topics that irritate his constituents who like to filet scientists. You know ripe the guts out of them kinda stuff.

This is Rand Paul who said what about wearing masks? And this is the beautiful part, that the CDC said all those that were vaccinated didn't have to wear masks. Dr. Fauci came out to clarify the statement, but, did it matter? No. Why? Because the political machinery for the Republicans would not let it be known the information was misinterpreted to the public.

This is Rand Paul again carrying on as if he actually knows something that no one else can purport to Dr. Fauci because Rand Paul was an optomologist. Rand Paul the eye doctor is an authority on vaccines. 

March 19, 2021
By Morgan Watkins

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul clashed yet again (click here) with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government's top infectious diseases expert, on Thursday as he derided public health experts' recommendation that people wear a mask even if they've caught or gotten vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Paul suggested it's just "theater" to mask up if you've already been immunized either through infection or vaccination and accused Fauci of making policy based on conjecture. 

Fauci pushed back against that and said COVID-19 variants are circulating in the U.S. that pose a threat even to people who previously got infected or vaccinated.

"You’ve been vaccinated and you parade around in two masks for show," Paul told Fauci during a congressional hearing Thursday. "You want to get rid of vaccine hesitancy? Tell them they can quit wearing their masks after they get the vaccine....

Anyone with a dead friend or relative that listened to Rand Paul, get a lawyer and sue the lousy no good eye doctor for their deaths.

Rand Paul created a "hot topic" for the folks back home that will vote him out of office in that the CDC was stupid and knew nothing about the real world. You know Paul has got a neighbor that absolutely hates him for this kind of reason. I think the guy attacked him more than once. The neighbor has an excuse, it is called "aggravated" anything. Because Rand Paul is an outright liar that keeps getting re-elected. People with good conscience can only put up with all this for so long and they react because they feel they are saving lives and good government policy.

The issues below are correct and troubling. But, don't look to Dr. Fauci who was on the firing line every day with Donald John Trump contradicting the president and being sure Americans knew there were facts known about the virus and that it was a growing base of knowledge they were finding to treat people and prevent "the spread." It wasn't Dr. Fauci that was out front telling Americans not to believe the experts and there was no danger. That was the policy of the Trump White House. 

When it comes to all these issues, this is not neglected by Dr. Fauci or any agency he is affiliated with, this is due to the lack of real policy by the USA during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Secret science? Is there not a Freedom of Information Act that provides all that information to the public. The AAPS needs to do some research before they come out and scapegoat Dr. Fauci. 

...AAPS states that the following issues are of critical concern: (click here)

AAPS (click here)

Secret science: What research is NIH funding or suppressing?

Oversight and FOIA. There are legislators that are involved in oversight, where are they? If AAPS doesn't want to seek FOIA requests then they should be writing the legislative committees and ask them why there isn't better oversight? This is nonsense.

Oversight: Why are Americans learning about these Covid controversies only through FOIA? Are there no checks and balances on individuals and agencies that have such a profound effect on our lives?

There are medical journals that publish research about these drugs. AND. No one is preventing any physician from prescribing them. If a physician wants to prescribe hydroxychloroquine they can do exactly that. There is no law against it, HOWEVER, there is research that has found the drugs to be invaluable and in some instances causes damage and/or hastens death.

There is nothing preventing any litigation against anyone working for the government. The point is mute. 

Central control with no accountability: NIH "guidelines" are being used to deny treatment with long-approved drugs including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to thousands of Americans. This therapeutic nihilism is likely the cause of more than 100,000 preventable deaths—but the policymakers have no liability.

Conflict of interest. Ask the legislative committees because this is about oversight again. What I find interesting is that Pfizer CEO is a veterinarian and he is rolling out vaccines every quarter to prove to his stockholders he is deserving of his bonuses. I find that interesting. He now wants to vaccinate infants. I don't know there is something about a profit-driven veterinarian and an infant that raises a lot of questions for me.

Conflicts of interest: What interest groups are determining NIH policy? Foreign governments? The pharmaceutical/vaccine industry? Big tech? Non-governmental organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

This is inflammatory. It has a distinct political undertone that brings up genetic medicine in a very bad light. If find these physicians and surgeons appalling when they know full well people benefit from genetic medicine, ask Moderna.

Before a professional group of physicians and surgeons carry on like this, they need to have some kind of proof of their SPECULATION.

Genetic engineering: The SARS-CoV-2 virus may be genetically engineered. If so, for what purpose? The only NIH-touted response other than lockdowns and masks are genetically engineered products. Not themselves vaccines by the previous definition, they introduce genetic instructions for the recipient to make genetically modified proteins to stimulate an immune response. The long-term consequences cannot be known.

I have no problem with Dr. Fauci because I pay attention. If he wasn't on the firing line every day, this country would have seen far more dead Americans. Dr. Fauci deserves the Medal of Freedom. He certainly defended mine.

Trust: Should we hand over control of our lives and medical treatment to Dr. Fauci and the agency he heads? Do they have our welfare at heart, or only their own power and a political agenda?

There is no deeply troubling situation here, except, for the witch hunt of Rand Paul AGAIN and this time a group of wealthy physicians looking for a scapegoat.

"The e-mails provide a glimpse into a deeply troubling situation," states AAPS executive director Jane M Orient, M.D. "But would be a mistake to focus solely on reading thousands of e-mails by one government official and overlook the work of thousands of bioengineers that could profoundly alter our lives."...

Dr. Fauci saved lives and if it were up to him, there would not have been a pandemic. It was Trump that insured the virus spread at will through the USA. Did I mention, the gun lobby really profited from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Somehow a gun was going to protect Americans from an invisible virus. Amazing. Americans were flocking to hospital emergency rooms with overburdened nurses without PPE. The nurses weren't carrying guns, so I guess sick people aren't really interested in a war so much as a cure.

I think the detractors of Dr. Fauci that side with Rand Paul need to ask themselves if they would have wanted Dr. Fauci's job working alongside Donald John Trump. See, Dr. Fauci attempted to get Trump to address the virus long before it began it's uncontrolled spread, but, causing such concern would hurt Wall Street profits and his re-election.

The folks here have no stone to cast against Dr. Fauci. He did his job and he did it well. The AAPS needs to form its own oversight committee and do the real work before clamoring for political attention.

Huh?

So, Ms. Baez is another victim of the circumstance of a government that allows citizens into the Capitol when the electoral votes are being counted. Sure, sure and I am Whistler's Grandmother.

Why then did the Capitol Police line up to prevent entry when in fact if the doors were swinging wide open for citizens didn't they greet everyone with a MAGA hat as a symbol of consolation?

The Capitol had been closed to visitors. I guess everybody has got to try.

Some of these insurgents need to do lots of community service every election year going from town to town to tell everyone they had been duped by Donald John Trump by the isolation of information on FOX News and the Trump YouTube Channel. Trump was a big spender to reach those folks by having a YouTube channel. Amazing.

The difference (click here) between metropolitan average household income and nonmetro average household income, 2009–2019

Remember those payments Trump was handing out to the farmers? Did they ever get them or did the poor Wall Street bozos get them when they didn't have commodities to sell to China anymore? The income gap widened incredibly during the Trump years. I am assuming this graph reflects the income with the subsidies.

I wish Democrats would have viable candidates in the local and state levels as well as federal for every Republican-dominated state. This information alone should be turning their heads. They are similar to coal miners. They actually believe the Republicans are the only ones that care about them. When did Moscow Mitch actually add jobs to the coal industry that resulted in the boom of "the good 'ole days." Never. Yet Republicans will come out of elections as if they were the only ones that voted for The Farm Bill. The Republicans have some of the best propaganda machines in this country and the MidWest and farms show it. The number of farms in the USA keeps shrinking. That plays into the idea the USA can no longer feed the world, so why not hunker down with Russia and eat Chinese Rice.

Look, why not classify Trump as a terrorist. The classical definition of a terrorist is one that uses a country's infrastructure against them. That is exactly what Trump did for four years in allowing Russia free access to all kinds of information. He used the USA government to OPPRESS information, lie and deceive through agencies like the EPA and destroyed precious records related to decades of truth about scientific investigation and the widening divide between Ag and Non-Ag incomes.

June 4, 2021
By Dominique Mosbergen

Stephanie Baez, (click here) a woman who was recorded saying on Jan. 6 that she wanted to “find me a Proud Boy,” referring to the white supremacy group, has been arrested in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that day.

Baez was arrested Friday in Alabama for her alleged involvement in the riot. According to a criminal complaint filed by the Justice Department, she was among the throng of Donald Trump supporters who violently forced entry into the Capitol in an attempt to stop the tally of Electoral College votes that affirmed Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election....

...She denied that she had been in the building unlawfully

“The defendant … stated that everyone was calm and no one had any reason to believe that they were not allowed inside,” the complaint said.

“The defendant further stated that some people were just following groups and she feels like it is insane not to take that into consideration,“ it added.

To date, the Department of Justice has arrested more than 465 people in connection with the Capitol riot.

“The Department of Justice’s resolve to hold accountable those who committed crimes on January 6th has not, and will not, wane,” the Justice Department said in a statement Friday.