Fauci Claims He Never Recommended COVID-19 Lockdowns

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White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci claimed Monday that he never recommended โ€œlocking anything downโ€ when pressed about what he would do differently regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

โ€œFirst of all, I didnโ€™t recommend locking anything down,โ€ Fauci replied during an interview published by The Hillโ€™s โ€œRisingโ€ program on Monday, suggesting it had been a recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

โ€œGo back and look at my statements,โ€ he added, โ€œthat we need to do everything we can to keep the schools open and safe.โ€

Although itโ€™s unclear exactly what Fauci meant by lockdowns, in October 2020, Fauci had publicly recommended that former President Donald Trump โ€œshut the whole country down,โ€ although itโ€™s not clear what he meant as presidents donโ€™t have the authority to hand down sweeping lockdowns.

โ€œWhen it became clear that we had community spread in the country โ€ฆ I recommended to the president that we shut the country down,โ€ he said in an event with students at the College of the Holy Cross in October 2020.

If the United States didnโ€™t โ€œshut down completely the way China did,โ€ then the spread of COVID-19 wouldnโ€™t be stopped, Fauci continued to say at the time. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since early 2020 has pursued a โ€œzero COVIDโ€ strategy that some analysts say is tantamount to economic suicide.

Closing Schools and Bars

In August 2020, Fauci said that public schools should remain closed across the country to prevent the spread of COVID-19.ย Fauci alsoย publicly suggestedย multiple times in 2020 that bars and restaurants should remain closed, then arguing that there was a binary choice between opening schools or bars.

โ€œYou have a choiceโ€”either close the bars or close the schools. Because, if you have people congregating in bars, itโ€™s likely youโ€™re going to stay red,โ€ the longtime head of theย National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseasesย said in November 2020.

Byย Jack Phillips

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