The long term negative ramifications of his actions are still being felt today @Agast . 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗹𝘆: Canada, the U.K., Spain, the U.S. and other countries lost their measles-free status last year. Cases are at a 35-year high in the U.S. Why? Several reasons.
Vaccination rates were falling before Covid, but between 2020 and 2022, vaccinations plummeted. The share of 2-year-olds in Canada with at least one measles dose dropped from about 90% in 2019 to about 82% in 2022 and 2023. That's below the roughly 95% threshold epidemiologists say is needed for herd immunity.
Kathryn H. Jacobsen, a global health epidemiologist and professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, explains that routine childhood immunization visits got disrupted or deprioritized during lockdowns.
During the pandemic, with lockdowns and health systems experiencing additional strain, many children did not receive their routine vaccinations on time. Jacobsen says some children still aren’t up to date on their vaccinations, which “creates an environment where measles can spread even among parents who want to vaccinate their kids on time.”
In addition, Jacobsen says that the way vaccines were rolled out during the pandemic – notably the accelerated timeframe to develop the vaccines – led to widespread hesitancy regarding vaccine safety.
Parents were told by Dr. Fauci to mask their young children and vaccinate them, even though everyone knew by early fall that children weren't particularly affected, and many schools, as well as day cares, in red states were open for business as usual.
Parents were told masks weren't effective. Then all masks were effective. Then only N95s were effective. Some poor kids wore the same dirty cloth mask on their face for days at a time, because it was "policy."
Natural immunity from past infection in kids was written off as "not real," while the fast-tracked vaccine was pushed as the only real protection.
In 2022 a CDC estimate found 86.8% of 0–4 year-olds, 93.5% of 5–11 year-olds, and 93% of 12–17 year-olds had prior-infection antibodies.
Yet Fauci wanted every kid to have the vaccine for "real" immunity. (Initially the vaccine was only offered to 16+, then 12+, then 5+ and by mid-2022, the recommendation was for 6 mos+.)
Everyone who's ever had a flu shot knows it's not even close to being 100% effective, and often not effective at all.
People suspected they were being lied to.
Then in 2022 CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the vaccine 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. And this month we learned that Walensky was pressured by Fauci into "softening" her statement. We also learned that the six-foot rule was made up.
Parents knew they were absolutely lied to.
Fauci encouraged the lockdowns that led to a two-year gap in childhood vaccinations.
He then accelerated the environment in which parents are doubting the efficacy of childhood vaccinations.
And he absolutely created the environment in which many will never trust public health officials again.
That's a lot of damage for one person.
I suspect he would do a lot of things differently if he could have a do-over. I believe he's a very intelligent man, and while he's hurt and angry at his treatment, he understands why others are so hurt, angry and frustrated with him.
On May 22, 2020, on CNBC, he warned that staying closed too long risked "irreparable damage," including unintended consequences for health, and gave that as the reason the reopening guidelines were being issued in the first place. He's already said several times that keeping schools closed for over a year was wrong, and besides, that blame should be placed squarely on teachers' unions and their blue state governor enablers.
By late May 2020, the Democrats were already three months into weaponizing Covid as a campaign issue against Trump, and Fauci was their darling. If he had tried to tell the truth that it was time to end restrictions, he would have been punished mercilessly, and he loved the attention and fame too much to risk that.
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