Former Chief Medical Advisor to the U.S. President Anthony Fauci, who headed the nationwide response to the COVID-19 outbreak under both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, admitted that there was no scientific evidence for six-foot social distancing during an interview with the Republican led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
“Yeah. I think it would fall under the category of empiric. Just an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data or even data that could be accomplished. But I’m thinking hard as I’m talking to you,” said Fauci.
“I don’t recall, like, a discussion of, ‘Now it’s going to be’ it sort of just appeared, that 6 feet is going to be the distance,” he said.
Fauci’s comments came from a January, closed door hearing with the subcommittee, the transcript of which was released on Friday in the lead up to a public hearing with Fauci on Monday.
During the hearing, Fauci was asked about the origin of the six-foot social distancing mandate, which was required, and enforced, in many schools and businesses across the country in an alleged attempt to stop the spread of the virus.
Fauci said that the requirement “sort of just appeared” and claimed that there was no discussion of what distance should be required.
Fauci, who once claimed that attacks on him were attacks on science itself, also admitted that there were no scientific studies supporting the social distancing policies.
“The six feet rule was one of the phrases and rules every single American knew during the pandemic, and it was largely arbitrary. In fact, an article in the British Medical Journal in August 2020, explained these rigid rules were based on an oversimplification of outdated science and experience of past viruses. The six feet rule caused widespread economic and social damage to the American collective,” said the subcommittee Republicans’ memo on Fauci’s comments.
Fauci also claimed that he could not remember having reviewed studies that supported the masking of children before schools required small children to be masked for full school-days, but that he “might have.”
When presented with studies showing the harm inflicted on children by mask mandates, Fauci claimed that he believes that there are conflicting studies, and that the ultimate value of child masking is “up in the air.”
In the same hearing, Fauci admitted that the “lab-leak” theory could be true.
The now-confirmed theory that the COVID virus started due to a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, which had been preforming gain-of-function research on viruses, was cast as racist and downplayed for years.
However, multiple investigations by the federal government have determined that the theory is the most plausible explanation for the emergence of the novel coronavirus.
Fauci’s admission marks a significant shift from the mainstream narrative pushed by media outlets and Fauci himself.
[RELATED: Once a Covid Conspiracy Theory, Lab-leak Hypothesis Endorsed by Energy Department Investigators…]
During the hearing, Fauci admitted that, although he believes the theory to have some conspiracy elements and thinks that the virus was likely natural, he maintains an “open mind” and acknowledges that the virus could have come from a lab.
The hearing transcript was released just days after the subcommittee requested access to Fauci’s private email address and phone records.
That request came after Fauci’s chief advisor revealed that they had a secret back channel for communication which allowed them to communicate about COVID without allowing those communications to be revealed by Freedom of Information Act requests, which make communications between public officials acting in their official capacity publicly available upon request.
Fauci is required to had over those records by June 12.
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Why isn’t this guy in prison?
He and all his friends need a one way ticket to Gitmo.
To bad nothing will happen to the modern day Mengele.