Let's Go Fauci!

The photo above appeared on one of the aggregators with the caption Cruella de Fauci. What's actually been on my mind for some weeks, as an Aristotelian who looks for causes, is why Dr Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health and Dr Fauci's boss, chose to announce his retirement when he did.

The news cycle at the time had been relatively benign as regarded Fauci, Dr Walensky, and Collins himself, but my guess is Collins was fully aware of FOIA and similar requests for records regarding US funding of Wuhan gain of function research. as well as the Tunisian puppy experiments.

The White Coat Waste Project, the nonprofit organization that first pointed out that U.S. taxpayers were being used to fund the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, have now turned its sights on Anthony Fauci on another animal-testing-related matter — infecting dozens of beagles with disease-causing parasites to test an experimental drug on them.

. . . According to the White Coat Waste Project, the Food and Drug Administration does not require drugs to be tested on dogs, so the group is asking why the need for such testing.

White Coat Waste claims that 44 beagle puppies were used in a Tunisia, North Africa, laboratory, and some of the dogs had their vocal cords removed, allegedly so scientists could work without incessant barking.

This dubious research was funded by Fauci's NIAID, and the agency had a responsibility to monitor the grant, as it did the Wuhan gain of function research. There seems little question that Fauci lied to congress about the Wuhan matter, but now it looks like his agency has been outsourcing puppy torture to the Tunisians as well. Not only that, but Fauci's wife, Dr. Christine Grady, is currently Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. A web search on Dr Grady brought up this link, a fact check from Reuters:

Fact check: Dr. Christine Grady, Anthony Fauci’s wife, is not Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister.

Well, that's a relief. Reuters is on the case! Dr Fauci can ask his wife for impeccable bioethical advice whenever he needs it now! I guess the possibility that she was Ghislaine Maxwell's sister kept him from asking her about the puppies before this.

I have a feeling Dr Collins knew he'd be in the line of fire over the puppies, Wuhan, and likely other cases we still don't know about, and decided to duck out while the ducking was good. There's no question that Fauci should have been fired well before now; he's been the chief spokesman and public enabler for a public health and public policy catastrophe that's had worldwide effects that are still playing themselves out. A key step, long overdue, would be to replace US public health leadership with capable people who aren't connected to the current group, if any such can be found.

In fact, I would think a key step President Biden could take to arrest his current decline in the polls would be to announce some version of a firing for Fauci, and maybe other key deputies, like today. There are few public figures more unpopular with the plebs than Fauci at this point, except of course the president, the vice president, and the speaker. But a public skewering of Fauci would mark a start in clearing the atmosphere.

Fauci could avert this by preemptively announcing his own retirement, which Hugh Hewitt, a second-string Salem Radio host, has already suggested to him. Indeed, the White House should be strongly suggesting this course as we speak, but of course, it won't.

Let's Go Fauci!