Fauci put the virus in our cheeseburgers
Now the Republicans are trying to pretend Fauci created the pandemic on purpose for [insert reason here].
For much of the past year, Republicans have decried lead government coronavirus expert Anthony S. Fauci’s prescriptions for mitigating the pandemic — including masks, social distancing and keeping society shut down.
Yeah, boy, masks – have you ever heard of anything so UnAmerican? Masks. I ask you.
But increasingly in the past week, the effort has taken on a new flavor — with suggestions that Fauci might be personally to blame for the advent of the virus itself.
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With Fauci set to testify before the Senate on Tuesday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson teed things up the night before. In a commentary leading off his show, he played up the idea of a lab leak, pointing (rightly) to shifting beliefs in the medical community about its plausibility and treating it as an open question.
But then he pivoted to treating this as something amounting to fact.
While talking about National Institutes of Health funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Carlson referred to “the deadly experiments that were going on there” — which is valid, given that’s the kind of thing virologists do.
But he then referred to them, as if the lab-leak theory were proved, as “the experiments that clearly went so wrong.”
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“This wouldn’t have happened if Tony Fauci didn’t allow it to happen — that is clear,” Carlson continued, referring to the funding. “It’s an amazing story. It is a shocking story. In a functional country, there would be a criminal investigation into Tony Fauci’s role in the covid pandemic that has killed millions and halted our country, changing it forever. So why isn’t there a criminal investigation into Tony Fauci’s role in this pandemic?”
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The idea that Fauci is somehow using all of this to keep people in masks or locked down for his own edification has been a fixture in some corners of conservative media, and in their telling he’s gradually emerged as perhaps the epitome of overzealous government scientists. But this new line of attack is painting him as something else entirely.
I think global warming must be frying their brains.
Okay, now do Donald Trump.
Ah, so it’s not a China virus after all!
On the face of it, and given that Fauci makes his living from medical science, it would appear to me that he would have an excellent case at law for defamation and slander, and could have Carlson and his network for squillions. I am sure that there would be any number of eminent lawyers in America happy to take his case, and not only in American courts, but in all the countries in which it has been rebroadcast as well.
Serious stuff. Carlson and his employer/s could finish up out on the streets and picking through garbage bins, with the arse out of their pants.
Oh I missed the bit where Fauci became the US President.
It seems more and more likely to me that Tuckums is preparing to run for President after Agent Orange dies.
With absolutely no apology: M.A.S.K.
I’m not sure anything could be more American.
I mean, there are rational arguments that it could have been the result of a leak. Heck, the wonderful United States government does biowarfare research all the time. Reasonable people note the North Korean claims of germ warfare during that war, and given a U.S. military that hired a notorious Japanese researcher after WWII, that is believable.
But to extend this argument to “Dr. Fauci is to blame for this” is just breathtaking in its crazy toons loonyness. We WANT some of the research to go on. Research is useful and helpful (not the biowarfare-generating research, but certainly the broader virology science).