Dr Fauci On The Take? How Could This Be???

Yesterday I speculated that Dr Fauci, in the course of overstaying his 15 minutes of fame, could potentially fall victim to revelations of kickbacks or MeToo. But my wife pointed out that his million-dollar prize for "defending science" was exactly a payoff, in the same way that Hunter Biden's recent book deal, which involves an undisclosed payment for a manuscript that will inevitably be ghostwritten, is a payoff to both Hunter and his dad.

Well, a hooker is paid a speciric fee for a particular sexual act, and this is against the law. An excort is paid for a particular amount of time, in which activities are not specified, and this is perfectly legal. The same principle is at work here.

So what was Dr Fauci paid for? He already earned $417,608 in 2019, the highest paid employee in the US government. (That amount probably doesn't account for other lagniappes, bonuses, deferred compensation, and the like) A milllion bucks is chump change, but so far, I haven't seen any mention that he plans to donate it to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Well, Alan Dershowitz, about as impartial an observer as they come, said just the other day that he thought COVID cost Trump the election, though he wasn't sure if any incumbent could have won it under those circumstances. And Fauci was the face of COVID, complaining to the press throughout the year that Trump wasn't listening to him.

Right. Go on a cruise. Don't bother with a mask. Wait a moment. Flatten the curve. Socially distance. Stay home. Wear a mask. Wear two masks. Trump was rightly skeptical, and Fauci should in justice have been fired, but whether it would hve helped Trump is still unknown.

But someone clearly thought Fauci beat Trump and gave him a million bucks. That's still chump change. As Frederick T Gates said to John D Rockefeller after Gates negotiated the sale of Rockefeller Steel to JP Morgan, "Mr Rockefeller, thank you is not enough."

For Dr Fauci, it sounds like a million bucks was enough. That sums up Fauci..