“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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— Charles Bukowski
I almost felt sorry for Anthony Fauci during the Senate hearing. He was in a classic Catch-22. He pleaded the Fifth almost a hundred times, even though supposedly he was given a blank pardon by President Autopen. If he had answered questions knowing that President Autopen’s pardon absolved him of previously lying to Congress and his numerous other crimes revealed at the hearing, he would have appeared worse than he did. He was cornered. Now, if it is shown that, legally, Autopen’s pardons are null and void, he will be guilty of not answering questions in the hearing. Still, it must have been tempting to try to excuse his actions when his actions were aired. You could see the mortification on his face.
If he had answered even one of the trivial questions (“What’s the color of your tie?”), then he would have invalidated his Fifth Amendment protection. But he didn’t fall for that and didn’t blurt out the answer.
Let us be clear about a few things.
First, we conspiracy theory “nuts” have, once again, been proven right.
Second, the reputation of scientists has suffered a blow through Fauci and others during the COVID fiasco. They told the populace exaggerated or deliberate lies and suppressed facts. And let us not forget the falsification of data, like attributing gunshot fatalities or vehicle deaths to COVID, and hospitals’ refusal to note fatalities or physical damage caused by the COVID vaccine. To be sure, the reputation has been besmirched from other sources, such as their claim that men are women and can get pregnant. Or the falsification of data, as in the current trend to label black and Muslim convicts as white. Likewise, in Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005, Statistical Tables, the data showing that rapes of white women by blacks was 19,293, and rapes of black women by whites was 0, were removed. All these have been due to the actions of liberals.
Third, Fauci, no longer arrogant, is the fall guy. There were countless others — liberals, always liberals — who went on a power trip. They were the Democrat mayors who stuffed COVID patients into nursing homes, where the most vulnerable people could be found. They were the ones who shut down schools “for the sake of the children” while knowing full well that children were practically immune. They were the ones who established a wide-ranging, thorough censorship. They were the ones who closed down businesses, depriving others of a living while they collected salaries in the government and the media. They were the ones in the media who daily vomited panic and who, even now, suppress about the COVID fiasco and the panic they fostered (and are still defending Fauci). They were the ones who barred patients from hospitals, though everyone there was vaccinated and supposedly immune. They were the persons who created the toxic “vaccine,” knowing full well it was dangerously experimental. They were the ones who violated every single constitutional right with impunity. They are the ones that need to be held legally accountable, at the national and local level. Not just Fauci.
Fourth, prominent public acknowledgment (and rewards) should be given to all the nurses and doctors who defied the quacks, the Democrat politicians, and the media by pointing out the farce, by refusing to administer, or take (some pharmaceutical workers refused to submit), the toxic “vaccine,” who prescribed hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin (sneered at as “a horse dewormer”), sometimes for free, to patients who actually had COVID. Abuse was poured on them, their licenses were revoked, they were hysterically demonized by Democrats, and the media and their colleagues and were fired from their positions. Why? Because they did what physicians have done for centuries: gave second opinions, treated patients, and refused to kill their patients.
Fifth, to my surprise, very few people, if any, have questioned the logic and rationale for funding research to make a deadly virus more contagious and to do it inside a totalitarian country like Communist China. This should be pursued.
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Sixth, it is well and good that Republicans are becoming militant with regard to the COVID farce. This is 2026. But where were they in 2021? In 2022? In 2023? In 2024? In 2025? Why were they quiet?
By the beginning of 2021, those of us who could think for ourselves knew that the whole thing was a farce. Many of us, whether we submitted or fought back, knew that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were lifesaving drugs. We knew that lockdowns were unnecessary and financially crippling. We knew that COVID-19 was like a nasty flu. We knew that the mortality warnings were exaggerated. We knew the vaccines were dangerous. We knew that face masks were a joke, as was the “six feet of social distance.” We knew that studies had come out in journals proving the above. We knew that Democrats knew that the whole thing was a farce. We fought back against the censorship.
I myself knew from the very beginning that there was something fishy going on. You may remember that the panic began in early 2020 with cruise ships in Asia, whose passengers were quarantined because someone had contracted COVID, whereupon the media created a panic. The passengers (two thirds of whom were old) were restricted from disembarking for weeks. Logically, the cruise ships should have become floating coffins, but out of 3,711 passengers, only 7 died (0.296%). In short, the cruise ships were a laboratory, a field study of society in microcosm — an old society at that. I shared my thoughts.
Lastly, the people who refused to wear masks, to keep quiet, or to take the toxic solution — in short, the people who refused to submit to censorship and the abuse of power and who did not swallow whatever was being proclaimed — they were the heroes. They are the true individuals, the true leaders of society, above the herd. They are the ones that ultimately defend civilization.
Armando Simón is a retired psychologist and historian, author of Humorous Stories of The Great Pandemic of 2020.
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