Now that Fauci is (finally) gone

Why Tony Fauci won’t be Missed

Letters from Vienna #101

Now that Fauci is (finally) gone

Or: why Tony Fauci won’t be Missed

The AIDS Hoax

In 1988 Larry Kramer wrote an open letter (published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 26th) to Dr. Anthony Fauci: “You are responsible for all government funded AIDS treatment research. In the name of right, you make decisions that cost the lives of others. I call the decisions you are making acts of murder.”

“Anthony Fauci, you are a murderer and should not be the guest of honor at any event that reflects on the past decade of the AIDS crisis…”

“…You can’t hide the fact that you are nothing but a despicable Reagan-era holdover and drug company mouthpiece. With 270,000 dead from AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, you should not be honored at a dinner. You should be put before a firing squad.”

“…you are a murderer because you oversee government sponsored clinical trials that test and retest combinations of immunosuppressive, toxic therapies that kill people with HIV. The majority of U.S. clinical trials involve worthless antivirals like AZT combined with some other drug (generally another toxic antiviral). What these tests have proven is that you are able to piss away billions of dollars testing dangerous compounds that DO NOTHING to improve the quality of life, to stop opportunistic infections or to extend survival for people with HIV. AZT, 3TC, ddI, ddC, d4T and the current crop of protease inhibitors are nothing but poison. Ten years of the plague has shown us that trying to kill the virus kills people with AIDS, and you, Dr. Fauci, know it.”

Over three decades later Robert F. Kennedy Jr. related how: “The AZT approval process was a shakedown cruise for Tony Fauci. As he ran AZT around the regulatory traps, Dr. Fauci pioneered and perfected the retinue of corrupt, deceitful, and bullying practices and strategies that he would replicate again and again over the next thirty-three years, to transform NIAAID into a drug development dynamo.”

“When Dr. Fauci entered the principal investigator (PI) drug-testing universe, only one pharmaceutical company, Burrough Wellcome (predecessor to GlaxoSmithKline), had a drug candidate teed up to test as an AIDS remedy – a toxic concoction, Azidothymidin, known popularly as “AZT.””

“US government-financed researchers developed AZT in 1964 as a leukemia chemotherapy. AZT is a “DNA chain terminator”, randomly destroying DNA synthesis in reproducing cells. AZT’s developer, Jerome Horwitz, theorized that the molecule might inject itself into cells and interfere with tumor replication. FDA abandoned the toxic chemotherapy compound after it proved ineffective against cancer and breathtakingly lethal in mice. Government researchers deemed it too toxic even for short-regimen cancer chemotherapy. Horwitz recounted that the drug’s “extreme toxicity made it “so worthless” that “he didn’t think it was worth patenting.”” Former BusinessWeek journalist Bruce Nussbaum recounted that Horwitz “dumped it on the junk pile” and “didn’t (even) keep the notebooks.”

“Soon after the NIH’s team identified HIV as the probable cause of AIDS in 1983, Samuel Broder, head of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – another sub-agency of the NIH –launched a project to screen antiviral agents from around the world as potential treatments. In 1985, his team, along with colleagues at Duke University, found that AZT killed HIV in test tubes.”

“NCI’s study inspired Burroughs Wellcome to retrieve AZT from Horwitz’s scrap heap and patent it as an AIDS remedy. Recognizing financial opportunity in the desperate terror of young AIDS patients facing certain death, the drug company set the price at up to $10,000/year per patient – making AZT one of the most expensive drugs in pharmaceutical history. Since Burroughs Wellcome could manufacture AZT for pennies per dose, the company anticipated a bonanza.”

“In order to justify these exorbitant prices for an existing drug, wrote Dr. Marcia Angell, the longtime editor of the New England Journal of Medicine in her 2004 book, “The Truth About Drug Companies”, “the company claimed far more credit than it deserved.”

“After Burroughs Wellcome’s CEO sent a self-congratulatory letter to the New York Times rationalizing AZT’s exorbitant sticker price with the standard Pharma embroidery about the high risks and extravagant costs of early drug development, Broder and four colleagues from the NCI and Duke responded angrily, reciting the seminal contributions Burroughs Wellcome did not make: “The company specifically did not develop or provide the first application of the technology for determining whether a drug like AZT can suppress live AIDS virus in human cells, nor did it develop the technology to determine at what concentration such an effect might be achieved in humans. Moreover, it was not first to administer AZT to a human being with AIDS, nor did it perform the first clinical pharmacology studies in patients. It also did not perform the immunological and virological studies necessary to infer that the drug might work and was therefore worth pursuing in further studies. All of these were accomplished by the staff of the National Cancer Institute working with staff at Duke University.”

“The NCI scientists pointedly added that the company’s squeamishness about handling the HIV pathogens made it impossible for Burroughs Wellcome to perform any meaningful research: “Indeed one of the key obstacles to the development of AZT was that Burroughs Wellcome did not work with live AIDS virus nor wish to receive samples from AIDS patients.”

“When Fauci appropriated the HIV program from the National Cancer Institute, NIAID inherited AZT, which was then further down the clinical trial path than any other drug.”

“AZT proved to be an irresistible opportunity for Fauci. After all, Burroughs Wellcome not only had a head start in the AIDS drug program, the company also had its own army of veteran “principle investigators” (PIs) with plenty of expertise at running the complex regulatory hurdles – which Dr. Fauci had not yet mastered. Dr. Fauci needed a visible success to jump-start his program and anoint his new regime with the patina of competence. Nussbaum described how the British pharmaceutical company manipulated its leverage over Dr. Fauci to gain monopoly control over the government’s HIV response: “Wellcome’s PIs came to dominate NIAID’s clinical trial system. They formed a web linking Wellcome, the drug AZT, and the NIH. They came to sit on the institute’s key drug selection committee, and they voted on whether to give high or low priority to the testing of each anti-AIDS drug, including those that might possibly compete with AZT in the marketplace. The PIs were a power unto themselves. They were, in fact, out of control.”

“Dr. Fauci would later mimic this successful model to populate key drug and vaccine approval committees in FDA, CDC, and at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) with his Pharma PIs, giving him, and his Pharma partners, complete, vertically integrated control over the drug approval process from molecule to market.”

“But all did not go smoothly. Even with Burroughs Wellcome holding the reins, progress at NIAID was glacial. AZT’s horrendous toxicity hobbled researchers struggling to design study protocols that would make it appear either safe or effective. With AZT devouring his bandwidth, Dr. Fauci failed to populate clinical trials for any competing drug. After three years and hundreds of millions spent, NIAID had not produced a single new approved treatment. “

“Meanwhile, bustling networks of community-based AIDS doctors mushrooming in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas had become specialists in treating the symptoms of AIDS. As Dr. Fauci swung for the fences – the miraculous new antiviral “cure” for AIDS – these community doctors were achieving promising results with off-label therapeutic drugs that seemed effective against the constellation of symptoms that actually killed and tormented people with AIDS. These included off-the-shelf remedies like ribavirin, alpha interferon, DHPG, Peptide D, and Foscarnet for retinal herpes; and Bactrim, Septra, and aerosol pentamidine for AIDS-related pneumonias. Despite years of pleading by the HIV community, Dr. Fauci refused to test any of those repurposed drugs, which had older or expired patents and no Pharma patrons. One of the most promising of these “street drugs” was AL 721, an antiviral that was far less toxic than AZT. Two of Fauci’s top scientists, Robert Gallo and Jeffrey Laurence from NCI, had found AL 721 effective in reducing HIV viral loads – but, under pressure from the phalanx of Burroughs Wellcome PIs, Dr. Fauci refused to follow up. Big Pharma and its PIs were loath to test any drug with patents they didn’t control. None of the big pharmaceutical companies were interested in cultivating rivals for their high-margin blockbusters like AZT.”

“Dr. Fauci’s failure to move these remedies through the NIAID system spawned a burgeoning sub-rosa market where people with AIDS and community doctors purchased remedies from underground “buyers’ clubs.””

“One of NCI’s top virologists, Dr. Frank Ruscetti, who worked directly under Robert Gallo, recalls of that era, “We could have saved millions of lives with repurposed and therapeutic drugs. But there’s no profit in it. It’s all got to be about newly patented antivirals and their mischievous vaccines.””

The PIs made sure that Pharma’s AZT was the only arrow in NIAID’s clinical trial quiver. Because of Dr. Fauci’s inexperience and perhaps deliberate sandbagging, he and his PIs had only managed to fill 5-10 percent of the slots in his clinical trials for other promising drugs that would compete with AZT. According to Nussbaum, “In time, the clinical network Fauci set up would come to be known as the “HUD of the nineties.” Money was spent, but trials went under-enrolled, drug treatments never seemed to emerge, and people with AIDS continued to get sick and die.”

“At the mercy of Burroughs Wellcome, Dr. Fauci cut the company PIs every courtesy to accelerate AZT’s approval. FDA and NIH waived long-term primate studies that would be a high-risk gambit on a compound of such well-known toxicity. (Dr. Fauci would take the same shortcut thirty-six years later to accelerate approvals of his pet drug, remdesivir, and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine.) Dr. Fauci endorsed Burroughs Wellcome’s scheme to price AZT at a sumptuous $10,000 per patient per year by agreeing to pay the top-shelf sticker price for the pills used in NIAID’s clinical trials.”

“According to Nussbaum, “Tony Fauci’s managerial incompetence”, which put him utterly at the mercy of Burroughs Wellcome and its AZT and AZT-only agenda, “had exacted a staggering cost. By 1987, more than a million Americans were infected by the AIDS virus. Not a single drug treatment had come out of the government’s enormous biomedical research system.”

“Nussbaum chronicles the escalating frustration among AIDS activists, who were winning vast Congressional appropriations for NIAID, with nothing to show. By 1988, Nussbaum recounts, “several hundred million tax dollars had somehow disappeared into the nation’s biomedical establishment and not one new drug had been produced.” Tony Fauci’s incompetence was frustrating the national response to the pandemic. “where was Tony Fauci at this time?” Nussbaum asks. “Nowhere…He wasn’t after all, a “details” man. He was busy being a “hit-the-front-pages-every-day” kind of guy.”

“AIDS activists and public health officials were wondering, “Where did all the grant money go? Did NIAID keep the money? Who benefited? Certainly not the tens of thousands of people with AIDS who grew angrier with each wasted, passing day.” Activists complained that Dr. Fauci was not being forthcoming about the status and enrollment of his clinical trials. He was stonewalling inquiries and had veiled the entire process in secrecy.”

“Despite pleas from patients, their doctors, and advocates, despite the vast financial windfalls flowing to his agency from the HIV community’s adept lobbying, Dr. Fauci refused to meet with the AIDS community leadership during his first three years as America’s “AIDS Czar.” That reticence further soured Dr. Fauci’s already difficult relationships with the community he was responsible to serve.”

“It was hardwired reflex at NIAID to exaggerate public fears of pandemics, and Dr. Fauci’s first instinct as national AIDS czar had been to stoke contagion terror. He made himself a villain among AIDS activists with a fear-mongering 1983 article in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” warning that AIDS could spread by casual contact. At the time, AIDS was almost exclusive to intravenous drug users and males who had sex with other males, but Dr. Fauci incorrectly warned of “the possibility that routine close contact, as within a family household, can spread the disease.” Given that “nonsexual, non-blood-borne transmission is possible,” Fauci wrote, “the scope of the syndrome might be enormous.” In his history of the AIDS crisis, “And the Band Played On”, author Randy Shilts reports that the world’s leading AIDS expert Arye Rubinstein, was “astounded” at Fauci’s “stupidity” because his statement did not reflect the contemporary scientific knowledge. The best scientific evidence suggested the infectivity of HIV, even in intimate contact, to be so negligible as to be incapable of sustaining a general epidemic.”

“Nevertheless, Dr. Fauci’s reflexive response was to amplify the widespread panic of dreaded pestilence that would naturally magnify his power, elevate his profile, and expand his influence. Amplifying terror of infectious disease was already an ingrained knee-jerk institutional response at NIAID.”

“In 1987, the “Wall Street Journal” won a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of an HHS scheme its writers characterized as a deliberate campaign by officials to misrepresent AIDS as a general pandemic to secure greater public funding and financial support.”

“The flimflam worked. Terror of pestilence, it turns out, is a potent impulse, and Fauci was adept at weaponizing it – and he quickly learned that other “respected authorities” would follow his lead. Following Dr. Fauci’s fear-mongering prophecy, Theresa Crenshaw of the President’s AIDS Commission made the astonishing forecast that within fourteen years, double the number of people then on the planet would by dying from lethal infections: “If the spread of AIDS continues at this rate, in 1996 there could be one billion people infected; five years later, hypothetically ten billion.” Crenshaw’s asked, “Could we be facing the threat of extinction during our lifetime?”[1]

Those readers who took the time to read Letter #99 will already know that HIV/AIDS is one gigantic hoax. Those who don’t know this already would be well advised to resort to that particular letter.

As always one need only “follow the money”.

Thus, it should surprise nobody that the CDC owns 57 vaccine products and spends $4.9 of its $12 bn. annual budget buying and distributing vaccines while the FDA receives 45% of its budget from the pharmaceutical industry.

The COVID-19 Hoax

“During the COVID pandemic Dr. Fauci served as ringmaster in the engineered demolition of America’s economy. His lockdown predictably shattered the nation’s once-booming economic engine, putting 58 million Americans out of work, and permanently bankrupting small businesses, including 41 percent of Black-owned businesses, some of which took generations of investment to build. The business closures contributed to a run-up in the national deficit – the interest payments alone will cost about $1 trillion annually… Dr. Fauci’s business closures pulverized America’s middle class and engineered the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history. In 2020 workers lost $ 3.7 trillion while billionaires gained $ 3.9 trillion. Some 493 individuals became new billionaires and an additional 8 million Americans dropped below the poverty line.”

“Dr. Fauci’s strategy for managing the C-19 pandemic was to suppress viral spread by mandating masking, social distancing, quarantining the healthy (also known as lockdowns), while instructing C-19 patients to return home and do nothing – receive no treatment whatsoever – until difficulties in breathing sent them to the hospital to submit to intravenous remdesivir and ventilation. This approach to ending an infectious disease contagion had no public health precedent and anemic scientific support. Predictably, it was grossly ineffective; Americans racked up the world’s highest body counts.”

“Medicines were available against C-19 – inexpensive, safe medicines – that would have prevented hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and saved as many lives if only we’d used them in this country. But Dr. Fauci and his Pharma collaborators deliberately suppressed those treatments in service of their single-minded objective – making America await salvation from their novel, multi-billion-dollar vaccines.”

“American’s native idealism will make them reluctant to believe that their government’s C-19 policies were so grotesquely ill-conceived, so unfounded in science, so tethered to financial interest, that they caused hundreds of thousands of wholly unnecessary deaths…”

“Peer-reviewed science offered anemic if any support for masking, quarantines, and social distancing, and Dr. Fauci offered no citations or justification to support his diktats. Both common sense and the weight of scientific evidence suggest that all these strategies, and unquestionably shutting down the global economy, caused more injuries and deaths than they averted.”

“Dr. Fauci was clearly aware that his mask decrees were contrary to overwhelming science. In July 2020, after switching course to recommend national mask mandates, Dr. Fauci told Neah O’Donnell with InStyle magazine that his earlier dismissal of mask efficacy was correct “in the context of the time in which I said it,” and that he intended to prevent a consumer run on masks that might jeopardize their availability for frontline responders. But Dr. Fauci’s emails reveal that he was giving the same advice privately. Moreover, his detailed explanations to the public and to high-level health regulators indicate that he genuinely believed that ordinary masks had little to no efficacy against viral infection. In a February 5 2020 email… he advised…Sylvia Burwell on the futility of masking the healthy. On February 17, he invoked the same rationale in an interview with USA Today: “A mask is much more appropriate for someone who is infected and you’re trying to prevent them from infecting other people than it is in protecting you against infection. If you look at the masks that you buy in a drug store, the leakage around that really doesn’t do much to protect you. Now, in the US, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask.”

During a January 28 speech to HHS regulators he explained the fruitlessness of masking asymptomatic people. “The one thing historically people need to realize, that even if there is some asymptomatic transmission, in all the history of respiratory borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks. The driver of outbreaks in always a symptomatic person. Even if there’s a rare asymptomatic person that might transmit, an epidemic is not driven by asymptomatic carriers.””

“Consistent with Dr. Fauci’s earlier statements, the peer-reviewed scientific literature has steadfastly refused to support masking the healthy as an effective barrier to viral spread, and Dr. Fauci offered a citation to justify his change of heart. A December 2020 comprehensive study of 10 million Wuhan residents confirmed Dr. Fauci’s January 28, 2020 assertion that asymptomatic transmission of C-19 is infinitesimally rare.”

“Dr. Fauci’s mask deception was among several “noble lies” that, his critics complained, revealed a manipulative and deceptive disposition undesirable in an evenhanded public health official. Dr. Fauci explained to the New York Times that he had upgraded his estimate of the vaccine coverage needed to insure “herd immunity” from 70 percent in March to 80-90 percent in September not based on science, but rather in response to polling that indicated rising rates of vaccine acceptance. He regularly expressed his belief that post-infection immunity was highly likely… although he took the public position that natural immunity did not contribute to protecting the population. He supported C-19 jabs for previously infected Americans, defying overwhelming scientific evidence that post C-19 inoculations were both unnecessary and dangerous. Under questioning on September 9, 2021, Dr. Fauci conceded he could cite no scientific justification for this policy.”

“Dr. Fauci’s little perjuries about masks, measles, mumps, herd immunity, and natural immunity attest to his dismaying willingness to manipulate facts to serve a political agenda. If the C-19 pandemic has revealed anything, it is that public health officials have based their many calamitous directives for managing C-19 on vacillating and science-free beliefs about masks, lockdowns, infection and fatality rates, asymptomatic transmission, and vaccine safety and efficacy, which took every direction and sowed confusion, division, and polarization among the public and medical experts.”

“…The blatant and relentless manipulation of data to serve the vaccine agenda became the apogee of a year of stunning regulatory malpractice…”

“At the outset of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci used wildly inaccurate modeling that overestimated US deaths by 525 percent. Scammer and pandemic fabricator Neal Ferguson of Imperial College London, was their author, with funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of $148.8m. Dr. Fauci used this model as justification for his lockdowns.”

“Dr. Fauci acquiesced to CDC’s selective protocol changes for completing death certificates in a way that inflated the claimed deaths from C-19, and then inflated its infection mortality rate. CDC later admitted that only 6 percent of C-19 deaths occurred in entirely healthy individuals. The remaining 94 percent suffered from an average of 3.8 potentially fatal comorbidities.”

“Regulators misused PCR tests that CDC belatedly admitted in August 2021 were incapable of distinguishing C-19 from other viral illnesses. Dr. Fauci tolerated their use at inappropriately high amplitudes of 37 and up to 45, even though Dr. Fauci had told Vince Racaniello that tests employing cycle thresholds of 35 and above were very unlikely to indicate the presence of live viruses that could replicate. In July 2020, Dr. Fauci remarked that at these levels a positive result is “just dead nucleotides, period,” yet did nothing to modify testing so it might be more accurate.”

“As America’s C-19 czar Dr. Fauci never complained about CDC’s decision to skip autopsies from deaths attributed to vaccines. This practice allowed CDC to persistently claim that all deaths following vaccinations “were unrelated to vaccinations.” CDC also refused to conduct follow-up medical inquiries among people claiming vaccine injuries. Inspired by rich incentives to classify every patient as a C-19 victim – Medicaire paid hospitals $39,000 per ventilator when treating C-19 and only $13,000 for garden variety respiratory infections – hospitals contributed to the deception.”

“Dr. Fauci’s refusal to fix the HHS’s notoriously dysfunctional vaccine injury surveillance system (VAERS) contributed inexcusable negligence. HHS’s own studies indicate that VAERS may understate vaccine injuries by over 99 percent.”[2] 

Of course, for all his heinous crimes against humanity it would be foolish to regard Tony Fauci as anything but a puppet. Not only he but also his puppet-masters need to be held to account.

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[1] pp.342-348 The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[2] pp.34-54 Ibid