{"id":151784,"date":"2024-01-11T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151784"},"modified":"2024-01-11T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:48:51","slug":"anthony-fauci-does-a-u-turn-on-lab-leak-and-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151784","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Fauci does a U-turn on lab leak and social distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the pandemic, Anthony Fauci rolled out a paper to counter the lab leak argument. This paper attempted to debunk the idea that COVID-19 was created in the lab and then subsequently leaked to the environment. Fauci also admitted that the social distancing recommendation was not based on science. Fauci responded to questions by Congressmen regarding his role in the pandemic response. He also indicated that the mandates for masks and vaccines did not help efforts to gain trust for what the government was doing.<\/p>\n

From The Daly Mail:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

During his second day of marathon grilling by Congress, the former White House advisor confessed that the lab leak – the idea Covid was engineered and accidentally released from a lab in Wuhan – was ‘not a conspiracy theory’.<\/p>\n

The U-turn is significant because he was the chief architect of a 2020 paper that discounted the theory. Fauci’s friends and former colleagues also spearheaded a paper in the Lancet that called believers conspiracy theorists and racists.<\/p>\n

Fauci, 83, sat before the House coronavirus subcommittee for a second seven-hour stretch of questioning on Tuesday about the pandemic response that he oversaw and its myriad flaws.<\/p>\n

The infectious disease expert said that data did not support recommendations to keep six feet of distance from another person and that vaccine mandates he personally advised likely increased vaccine hesitancy.<\/p>\n

Fauci also U-turned on his views of President Donald Trump’s 2020 orders to restrict incoming travelers from China.<\/p>\n

He told Congress yesterday that he supported the ban – despite publicly criticizing the move in 2020.<\/p>\n

The former President moved to restrict travel from China in January 2020 soon after Chinese officials identified around 10,000 cases of the novel virus.<\/p>\n

Leading political figures on the left including President Joe Biden calling the then-President’s travel restrictions ‘hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Mail has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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