{"id":57025,"date":"2021-03-21T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=57025"},"modified":"2021-03-21T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:42:11","slug":"why-is-fauci-still-there-in-view-of-so-much-fraudulent-misconduct-and-bald-faced-lying-to-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=57025","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: Fauci lied, Many died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Marco Rubio: Dr. Fauci lied about coronavirus to manipulate our behavior \u2014 that’s appalling<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Placing blind faith in unelected celebrity scientists has its limits, and we must not be afraid to call them out<\/h3>\n

By Sen. Marco Rubio | Fox News<\/p>\n

Thanks to our news media\u2019s monomaniacal obsession with President Trump, few have paid attention to an important interview that\u00a0Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/a> gave last week, in which he acknowledged that he selectively lied to the American public about the coronavirus and what was needed for our national recovery.<\/p>\n

The story is straightforward. For most of this year, Dr. Fauci and other scientists in our public health establishment have been telling Americans that about 60 to 70 percent of the nation would need a\u00a0vaccine<\/a>\u00a0in order for us to reach herd immunity and make the coronavirus a non-issue.<\/p>\n

But, speaking with The\u00a0New York Times<\/a>, Dr. Fauci admitted that he believes the real number is in fact significantly higher \u2014 perhaps 75 to 90 percent \u2014 and he declined to be forthright because he felt the country wasn\u2019t ready to hear it. Only now did he say that he feels he has the freedom to “nudge this up a bit” without discouraging the nation.<\/p>\n

I am sure that Dr. Fauci \u2014 the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases \u2014 made the decision to mislead with nothing but good intentions. However, let\u2019s be clear about what he was doing: lying to the American people in order to manipulate their behavior.<\/p>\n

The American people deserve the truth; they also deserve accountability. When elected representatives make decisions, they can be held responsible by the public. But when public health officials with decades of experience and leadership within our nation\u2019s institutions short-circuit the political process and make these decisions themselves, they deny the American people that same opportunity \u2014 and to change course if desired.<\/p>\n

After all, accountability is a central tenet of representative government. It\u2019s the best way to ensure that the vision of what is being enforced by decision-makers matches the values of the population who have elected them.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, difficult choices have had to be made: How do we allocate scarce personal protective equipment? Is it safe to play a high school football game? How should we prioritize vaccine distribution?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not easy questions, but people should be trusted to make these decisions for themselves armed with facts honestly presented by public officials. And when it comes time to make decisions as a community, elected officials at every level of government must lead.<\/p>\n

Passing the buck to unelected technocrats avoids accountability and means falling back on two fallacies: first, that science gives us a straightforward playbook for answering questions facing decision-makers; and, second, that those technocrats are the only legitimate interpreters of the facts.<\/p>\n

As the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear, things are never so clear-cut. For example, early on in the pandemic, there was a question of whether wearing a mask could be an effective tool to stop the spread.<\/p>\n

In March, Dr. Fauci said “there\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask” and cautioned that “there are unintended consequences” with wearing them. That guidance was confounding at the time, and it quickly became politicized.<\/p>\n

But some of the first people to make decisions not based on science were the scientists who, as Dr. Fauci admitted this past June, initially decided not to recommend masks to the general public because they were supposedly “concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply.”<\/p>\n

The point here is not to stop trusting public health guidelines. Beating the coronavirus will mean coming together as a nation and continuing to make sacrifices to reduce its spread, as more and more Americans get vaccinated thanks to the Trump administration\u2019s Operation Warp Speed.<\/p>\n

But it does mean that placing blind faith in unelected celebrity scientists \u2014 elevated by a media that award Emmys to negligent politicians with their\u00a0own grisly records<\/a> \u2014\u00a0 has its limits, and we must not be afraid to call them out when they\u2019re caught overstepping their legitimate authority.<\/p>\n

I do not question Dr. Fauci\u2019s motives \u2014 I trust they are noble \u2014 but I am appalled by his arrogance. If he wants to lead the nation, he should run for office. Otherwise, he should give us an honest and transparent reading of the science, not polling data<\/a>, and let the rest of us \u2014policymakers and the American people who have elected them \u2014 do our jobs.<\/p>\n

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\nhttps:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/dr-anthony-fauci-coronavirus-marco-rubio<\/a><\/p>\n

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