Fauci Tells House Panel He’s ‘Not Convinced’ Kids Suffered Learning Loss From COVID School Closures

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The Prevaricating Authoritarian Smurf is trying to distance himself from the damage his guidance during the pandemic caused.

During his closed-door testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that he was skeptical that school closures had a negative effect on students’ learning.

It has been well-documented that school closures and remote learning caused learning loss — especially among students in high-poverty areas.

The lifelong government employee who said that attacks on him were attacks on science itself doesn’t believe the federal government’s report showing that reading and math scores plummeted post-pandemic to their lowest point in 30 years.

“He says he’s still not convinced that there was learning loss — that in his view, that’s still really open for discussion,” Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), who sits on the panel, told The Post.
“I think [if] you ask any parent, they’ll tell you it was a major hit on their child’s development,” Cloud added…
…Cloud said Fauci had showed an “amazing ability to either forget what happened or then to find ways to shirk any sort of responsibility for the influence that was had,” during his marathon session.
​​“They wash their hands of any sort of responsibility, saying, ‘Oh, those decisions were made by school districts.’ But the school districts know, if you don’t follow the guidance that’s coming out of the federal government, you open yourselves up to lawsuits,” Cloud added.
Source: New York Post

Previously, when asked about his role in school closures, Fauci insisted that he had “nothing” to do with those sorts of decisions.

"Was it a mistake…to see schools closed as long as they were?"

FAUCI: "I had nothing to do with it!" pic.twitter.com/azgKnyd1VT

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 16, 2022

The internet, however, is forever.

And while he didn’t make the decision to shut down schools, he certainly influenced it with his “guidance” and the years-long fearmongering about the danger of the virus — even for kids who were always at low risk from COVID.

He may not have made the decision but he influenced it every step of the way. And he knew he had this power. He wielded it. pic.twitter.com/GKIjTlQzgW

— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) October 17, 2022

Check out what he told teachers’ union leader and lockdown zealot Randi Weingarten:

Here’s 🤡 Fauci telling @rweingarten the minimal we need to open schools is having teachers wear masks, goggles, gloves, and possibly a disposable garment. This was late July 2020 when Georgia and Florida had already started to reopen.https://t.co/uSqhyCwigt https://t.co/0Lbtu6FQRm pic.twitter.com/MsYSzTuSqb

— Stinson Norwood (@snorman1776) October 16, 2022

Fauci was giddy for masking kids — including toddlers — and hoped that forcing face coverings on them wouldn’t have a lasting effect on them.

Tom Elliott posted an entire thread on X with video after video of Fauci advocating for school closures and other measures to “protect” children from COVID infection.

It was a wild reframe that just isn’t working in the era of social media.

New: In a major revision of history, Fauci casts himself as a bold opponent of school closures: “We’ve got to do whatever we can to get the schools open.”

Fauci repeatedly advised schools to remain closed in 2020, saying kids “will likely get infected.”pic.twitter.com/KoPyRSnMSS

— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) April 26, 2023

Maybe that’s why he’s pivoting to disputing the claim that lockdowns and school closures negatively affected learning.

Buck Sexton, co-host of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, who has been critical of Fauci from very early on in the pandemic posted that he wasn’t surprised that “Lab coat Stalin” won’t admit that his guidance caused harm to children.

Surprise surprise, Lab coat Stalin won’t admit to the Covid atrocities he committed https://t.co/FdNiWIycBG

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) January 10, 2024

The fear-based policies advocated by COVIDictators impacted kids in multiple ways and the architects of them — Dr. Fauci chief among them — are trying to absolve themselves of responsibility.

We cannot let that happen. These people need to be held accountable.

By the way, the subcommittee provided a brief summary of Fauci’s testimony and he wasn’t just disingenuous and trying to rewrite history about school closures — he did that with his handling of the lab leak theory which records show that he was trying to paint as a “conspiracy theory.”

He was pretty cagey about what was meant by “gain-of-function” and his role in the funding of the research by Eco Health Alliance done at the Wuhan lab. It apparently got pretty heated.

“I mentioned earlier today to someone that it was almost like Bill Clinton arguing over what ‘is’ is,” said Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) about Fauci’s evasiveness in answering questions regarding gain-of-function and the Wuhan lab.

On the plus-side, he did admit that he advocated for colleges to impose vaccine mandates on students, including young men — you know, that population that was at low-risk for complications from COVID, but at higher risk for myocarditis from the jabs. That’s probably something that can be cited in a lawsuit.

Fauci, aka “The Science”, also admitted that the 6-foot distancing just popped up out of nowhere and didn’t appear to be based on anything.

🚨DR. FAUCI TESTIMONY TAKEAWAYS🚨@COVIDSelect has completed a two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Here are the most important highlights from DAY 2 of his testimony👇

— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) January 10, 2024

✔️Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab-leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.

This comes nearly four years after prompting the publication of the now infamous “Proximal Origin” paper that attempted to vilify and disprove the lab-leak hypothesis.

— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) January 10, 2024

✔️Dr. Fauci advised American universities to impose vaccine mandates on their students.

— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) January 10, 2024

✔️Dr. Fauci agreed with President Trump’s order that restricted travel from China and supported his further restrictions on travel from EU countries and the United Kingdom.

— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) January 10, 2024

Chairman @RepBradWenstrup's statement following Dr. Fauci's two-day testimony⬇️ pic.twitter.com/VcSPsMv6fn

— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) January 10, 2024

The lying little ghoul might be out of office, but he’s still responsible for the recommendations he made and the consequences resulting from them.

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