Unfortunately and as per usual, MTG turned the questioning of Dr. Fauci into a circus, and that is what is grabbing headlines. There's been precious little coverage given to the fact that Dr. David Morens, one of Fauci's top advisors, admitted under oath that he was using Gmail and misspelling words on his company emails to intentionally avoid FOIA requests. One has to wonder what exactly he was trying to hide. There was also not a lot of play given to the countless flip-flops that the committee highlighted that Fauci denied.
One particularly poignant moment was when Rep. McCormick, who is a doctor that actually treated patients during the pandemic, played an audio clip of Dr. Fauci stating the following:
"Once people feel empowered and protected legally, you are going to have schools, universities, and colleges that are gonna say, 'You want to come to this college buddy? You're gonna get vaccinated. Lady, you're gonna get vaccinated. Big corporations, like Amazon and Facebook, and, and, and all of those others are gonna say 'You wanna work for us? You get vaccinated.' And it's been proven that when you make it difficult for people in their lives, they lose their ideological bull---- and they get vaccinated."
Then, McCormick asked Dr. Fauci, "Are all objections to COVID vaccination ideological bull----?", to which Dr. Fauci responded, "No they're not, and that's not what I was referring to."
At this point, Rep. McCormick should have simply asked Dr. Fauci to clarify what he WAS referring to, but instead, he continued to pontificate. It would have been quite interesting to watch how Fauci would have tried to spin away his clear proclamation that preventing people from being able to get an education or a job would cause them to lose their "ideological bull----" and get vaccinated, and how that really didn't mean that there are valid objections to refusing a novel vaccine that has no track record of efficacy or safety, particularly in otherwise young, healthy people. Heck, even the Telegraph yesterday acknowledged (on the front page!) that COVID vaccines "may have helped fuel rise in excess deaths". Seems the only thing that separates conspiracy theory from facts is just a few years.
Experts call for more research into side effects and possible links to mortality rates
www.telegraph.co.uk
Sadly, these committees are rarely more than political theater. There are serious questions about nearly all pandemic-related policies and positions that deserve to be investigated and scrutinized, but that can never happen when you have morons like MTG shrieking "EVIL!" like a crazed lunatic.