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J.D. Tuccille: Anthony Fauci destroyed trust in public health experts

His diary exposes him as thin-skinned, intolerant of dissent, dishonest and obsessed with fame

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The last few years haven’t done any favours to the status of public health experts. Ongoing revelations from Anthony Fauci’s personal notes emphasize their eroded stature. Once the face of America’s response to COVID-19, the former director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been revealed by the publication of his “diary” as thin-skinned, intolerant of dissent, dishonest and obsessed with fame. To those of us who were already dismayed by authoritarian restrictions imposed by government during the pandemic, the exposed memos and emails confirm our worst suspicions about the nature of the thinking behind those policies.

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For those opposed to lockdowns and convinced that Fauci played a role behind the scenes in promoting restrictions, the former public health bureaucrat offered plenty of ammunition. His notes, stored on government servers and therefore fair game for his critics to peruse, revealed him advising the then-governor of New York and mayor of New York City to order schools closed.

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