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Despite being pardoned by President Biden for his COVID crimes, Anthony Fauci pled his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.<\/p>\n

Read more The 5 most shocking moments from Anthony Fauci\u2019s Senate COVID testimony<\/a><\/p>\n

He refused to answer a single question about his role in pandemic policy before the Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Senator Rand Paul, despite being immune from prosecution.<\/p>\n

I think I know why.<\/p>\n

Fauci was wrong about everything. From the lab origin of COVID-19 to the China travel ban, from foolish mandatory face masks to punishing lockdowns, his \u201clegacy\u201d is one misstep after another.<\/p>\n

His authoritarian edicts made things worse, much worse, for Americans than they otherwise would have been.<\/p>\n

Fauci had initially dismissed the Wuhan virus in January radio interviews as \u201ca very, very low risk to the United States.\u201d So it might have been, except for the incredible series of wrong calls that Fauci made in the months following.<\/p>\n

These began early in 2020, when President Trump wanted to impose a travel ban. Dr. Fauci vigorously objected to the move, insisting that \u201ctravel bans don\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so planes from China carrying infected passengers continued to land in New York and other American cities.<\/p>\n

As COVID began its predictable spread in the US, Fauci was suddenly everywhere on the airwaves warning about how contagious and even lethal the coronavirus was.<\/p>\n

In March 2020, panicked by a pandemic model from the UK that predicted a viral apocalypse, he recommended that the entire country be shut down indefinitely. He backed a shelter-in-place order for New York City and the closure of schools and \u201cnonessential\u201d small businesses.<\/p>\n

These moves denied tens of millions of children an education, put roughly 40 million people out of work, and nearly bankrupted the US economy.<\/p>\n

The model that Fauci relied upon turned out to be algorithmic garbage, but that didn\u2019t stop America\u2019s most famous virologist from committing every epidemiological sin in the book.<\/p>\n

Read more Exclusive | Fauci gave off \u2018signals of deception\u2019 during Senate hearing, body language expert says<\/a><\/p>\n

There was early evidence from geriatric Italy that, while COVID merely gave the young the sniffles, it could be deadly to the elderly. This was shockingly confirmed by New York City\u2019s long-term-care centers, whose residents were carted out in coffins by the thousands.<\/p>\n

But instead of protecting the vulnerable elderly, as experts like Scott Atlas recommended, Fauci publicly attacked their ideas as \u201cnonsense and very dangerous.\u201d His solution \u2014 a scattershot effort to vaccinate every man, woman and child in America \u2014 cost the lives of countless elderly whose lives could have been saved if they had been given priority.<\/p>\n

It was clear from the outset that the risk of children dying from COVID-19 was effectively zero, far lower than their risk of dying from the seasonal flu, which itself is tiny. Yet by early March 2020, Fauci was loudly calling for nationwide school closures.<\/p>\n

Closing America\u2019s schools did not save lives. But it did have a destructive effect on the academic performance and the emotional health of children. Many children suffered severe learning losses as they went a year with virtually no schooling or social interaction at all.<\/p>\n

Fauci\u2019s \u201coriginal pandemic sin,\u201d of course, was funding Chinese labs. The long-time head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease was the chief cheerleader and funder of \u201cgain of function\u201d research \u2014 the dangerous idea that deadly viruses could be created and studied in the lab to help prevent the next pandemic.<\/p>\n

Had the head of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Dr. Shi Zhengli, not been taught these techniques in Fauci-funded labs, she wouldn\u2019t have been able to create coronaviruses in her lab. And the world might have been spared the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Whether Fauci inadvertently helped to create COVID or not, once it had emerged from the Wuhan, he made a bad situation much, much worse.<\/p>\n

The truth is, Fauci couldn\u2019t have caused any more unnecessary suffering and death in America if he had tried to.<\/p>\n

No wonder he doesn\u2019t want to answer any questions.<\/p>\n

Steven W. Mosher is the author of \u201cThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics\u201d and the President of the Population Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

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