'My Words Were Taken Completely Out Of Context': Ron Johnson Fires Back At Fauci

odds now this weekend something happened that's not unusual my words were taken completely out of context twisted distorted and i was relentlessly attacked i'd like to respond to those attacks that were headlined fouchy calls ron johnson's aid comments preposterous fault she said i don't have any clue what he's talking about faulty blasts ron johnson for saying he over hyped aids preposterous anthony fauci rips gop senator ron johnson's preposterous accusations he's over hyped kovid so what did i say that sounds terrible well what i said was in response to radio talk show host brian kilmeade's question asking about the omnicron variant he said it looks benign i mean mild symptoms mostly people under 40. so i answered his question about omnichrome talking about mueller's ratchet it's a it's a phenomenon it makes sense how viruses generally mutate how they become more contagious because they want to replicate so become more contagious but generally less lethal because it doesn't help replication if you kill your host now it's nothing's guaranteed that would be the general direction of the variance of the coronavirus why would we assume anything worse but that's what the covid gods are doing they are assuming the worst they are using every new variant to keep us in the state of fear that they have created to maintain control over our lives and rob us of our freedom to impose freedom-robbing vaccine mandates again that are preposterous there's a good use of that word that are pointless that are idiotic but after talking about that state of fear i went on to say and by the way fauci did the exact same thing with aids he over hyped it now full stop that is where the news media stopped and then accused me falsely of down playing aids i have never nor would i ever downplay the tragedy that is aids that is coveted these are serious deadly diseases they've killed hundreds of thousands i would never downplay them when i said overhyped i explained exactly what i was talking about in the next six words i said he created all kinds of fear saying it could affect the entire population when it couldn't he's using the exact same playbook for kovid and here's the key point that i want to talk about a little bit later ignoring therapy pushing a vaccine the solution to this pandemic i've always thought was early treatment we still haven't robustly explored early treatment and that's a travesty now dr faucio on the show and said this criticism of him creating a state of fear is preposterous but let's go to what he actually said back in may of 1983 now i was alive in may of 83. i understand how unsettling this new disease was i understand the state of fear the legitimate state of fear but responsible healthy officials should not have stoked it and dr fauci did he authored an article in the journal of american medical association stating quote the possibility that close routine close contact as with any family household can spread the disease he added if indeed the latter is true then aids takes on an entirely new dimension and then if we add to this possibility that non-sexual non-blood-borne transmission is possible the scope of the syndrome may be enormous now it's important to note these aren't off the cuff comments this was in a column he wrote with forethought dr fauci knew what a delicate time we were as the public awareness of this disease was emerging when people were already frightened by what they were hearing he was in a position of authority he knew what he said carried weight and would be disseminated and it was the following day headlines the united press international published a story headlined household contact may transmit aids the next day the associated pressurized press ran a story asking does aids spread by routine contact the same day the new york times article read quote family context studied in transmitting aids and it invoked faulty's article in discussing the possibility of transmission between family members he stoked the fear and it quite honestly continues to this day he stigma stigmatized aids patients for years with his fear-mongering now less than two weeks two months later in june of 1983 dr fauci flip-flopped and he publicly contradicted his own fear-mongering by stating quote it is absolutely preposterous he likes that word by the way is absolutely preposterous to suggest that aids can be contracted through normal social contact like being in the same room with someone or sitting on a bus with them i mean you heard what he said two months earlier right if he felt was so prepost preposterous on june 26th why had he raised the fear stoked the fear just two months earlier now it's interesting i just found out last night that not only did he write that article stoking the fear he started giving interviews i've seen an interview where he basically used the exact same words but now he denies it he wants to deny the reality of what he said what's what he said what he did he wants to rewrite history and by the way when it comes to the aids crisis rewriting history i'm not the only one that is accusing him of that in an article published or updated last on december 6th in 2017 in the huffington post in their comment platform which i guess has since been taken down an author of a book his name is sean strub wrote an article wrote a blog for the huff post the book mr straub scrub wrote was body counts a memoir of politics sex aids and survival and he describes it as how he recounts the slow how slow the federal government was in publicizing the use of bactrim and other sulfa drugs to prevent pcp which is the pneumonia that was then lead the leading killer of people with aids in addition to its long time and well-known use to treat that type of pneumonia so let me quote from mr schrub's article he said dr anthony fauci is rewriting history he's doing so to disguise his shameful role in delaying promotion of an aids treatment that would have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the first first years of the md of of the first years of the epidemic the article goes on to say in 1987 pioneering aids activists michael callan begged fauci begged fauci for help in promoting the use of bactrim as pcp prophylaxis and issuing interim guidelines urging physicians to prophylaxis those patients deemed at high risk for pcp the article goes on had fauci listen to people with it with aids and the conditions clinicians treating them the doctors with the courage and compassion to treat aids patients and responded accordingly he would have saved thousands of lives in the two years between 1987 when callan met fauci in 1989 when the guidelines were ultimately issued two years nearly 17 000 people with aids suffocated from pcp most of these people might have lived had fouchy responded appropriately another doctor dr barry gingle i'm continuing with the article here a medical advisor to gay men's health crisis met with fauci to plead for his support they didn't just say there was quote this preliminary activity and some small trials as fouchy claims they explained that many frontline aids physicians found the lead with dr joseph sonabend were already using bactrim effectively to prevent the recurrence of pcp the science was clear a decade before critical trials by dr walter hughes had proven its efficacy in preventing pcp in other immune compromised populations like children with leukemia it continues fauci refused to acknowledge the evidence and according to one account even encouraged people with aids to stop taking treatments like bactrim that weren't specifically approved for use in people with aids dr sonobin wrote in 2006 quote why in the case of aids was backroom a known preventative measure against pcp introduced so many years after a need for it had been recognized this must be added the question is why this neglect the consequences of which can be measured in the tens of thousands of lives lost has received almost no attention the media has continued to cover for dr fauci the article goes on if we don't tell the truth about the history of the aids epidemic it will be subject to more whitewashing as we witness this weekend my aside more distortions and more rewriting to suit the legacies of the officials in charge these are the same officials who seem incapable of ever acknowledging or taking responsibility for the mistakes they made mistakes that cost our community thousands of lives now mr president why did i take so much time to read an excerpt from this article from 2017 it's because it's the major point i was making in my comments to brian killed me

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Length: 12min 54sec (774 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 11 2021