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Anthony Fauci’s Darkest Hours – OpEd

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17.10.2026

The article interprets newly released Anthony Fauci diary entries from December 2021 to May 2022 as showing his continued defense of lockdowns and high vaccination targets even as the Omicron variant reduced the perceived need for shots and public opposition grew.

It portrays Fauci as privately acknowledging the limited efficacy of the vaccines, becoming increasingly germaphobic, and seeking international endorsements and personal fame as external pressure mounted, including from the release of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book.

The piece concludes that Fauci was eventually removed from his NIAID post later in 2022 amid concerns that his public statements were increasing resistance to vaccination, after which he invoked the Fifth Amendment in subsequent testimony.

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” said Lady Macbeth as she paced in a hallucinatory state, reliving in her subconscious the murders she helped plan. She rubbed her hands as if washing them, to wash away the sin, following up the promise to her son that “a little water clears us of this deed.”

The line comes to mind from the latest dump of entries from the diaries of Anthony Fauci that cover the months December 2021 to May 2022. These were the darkest months of the Covid era. 

Confidence that the virus was a lab creation was growing. That points directly to Fauci. The lockdowns had given rise to growing population-wide fury. And the shot was not working, not stopping infection or spread while groups reporting deep injury from injection could not be censored fast enough to make them vanish completely, though tech companies certainly tried. 

Fauci still held his position at NIAID with certainty that he would keep it under President Biden, whose confidence he enjoyed. He was daily in touch with the people who were actually running the government – aides Ron Klain and Jeff Zients – and coordinated his decisions with them. They trusted him to continue the Covid operation, which they all knew to be a national security issue beyond the control of any political player. Fauci was the front man but an effective one, until he became a liability. 

We know from previous entries that Fauci at first hoped the new virus would get lost in the mix of a bad flu season. This was mid-January 2020. The CDC called him out on that. His first scheme failed because a savvy businessman in China spilled the beans by........

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