Fauci refuses to go after China for destroying evidence & refusing to cooperate with investigators; says the U.S. shouldn’t be “accusatory” as it will make them “pull back more”
Morning Joe Q’s to Fauci:
— Did you think lab leak theory was a “conspiracy theory”?
— What do you think now about the lab-leak theory?
— Which theory has more evidence?
— Why isn’t China cooperating w/ investigations?
— What’s your Covid forecast for the summer?
CNN's interview w/ Fauci this AM:
10 questions about Covid/vaccines
3 question about emails (John Berman almost apologized for getting into it)
Fauci on one of his emails admitting masks are useless against Covid: "You accumulate a lot more information and you modify and adjust your opinion and your recommendation based on the current science and current data."
Fauci on his redacted email about a possible China lab leak: “The idea, I think, is quite far fetched that the Chinese deliberately engineered something so that they could kill themselves, as well as other people. I think that’s a bit far out, John."
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House Dems are reportedly drafting a resolution condemning Rep. MTG for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust.
Maybe they should also include … @AOC? After all, distasteful Holocaust analogies are kind of her stock-in-trade.
@AOC “Words matter,” she says in congratulating herself for these analogies
@AOC Or what about co-Squader @RashidaTlaib, who offended the Jewish community after saying the Holocaust gives her a “calming feeling” because of the role her ancestors played in “trying to create a safe haven for Jews”
.@YouTube: Mothers having opinions about whether their children should be forced into masks “violates our community guidelines” and our “medical misinformation policy”
@YouTube I’ve updated Grabien’s post of this video w/ a transcript of the mother’s full comments. Can anyone find anything she says that contradicts WHO guidance on Covid, as YouTube/Google claims? Because I can’t.
@YouTube Parents are allowed to express opinions over whether their children should be forced into wearing masks. Parents' perspectives are a valid part of the public debate. This mother does not represent herself as a doctor or medical expert.
Flashback: Fauci dismisses idea Covid originated from the Wuhan virology lab --
"Very qualified evolutionary biologists have said that everything about the step-wise evolution over time strongly indicates that it evolved in nature and then jumped species.”
From a May 5, 2020 interview w/ Nat'l Geographic.
"If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, and what’s out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated — the way the mutations have naturally evolved"
Flashback: CNN’s @JohnJHarwood mocks Trump for suggesting Covid resulted from a Chinese "lab accident."
"Trump is that he’s running for re-election and is looking for ways to deflect blame for the performance of the administration"