# Question about Tony Fauci **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 19, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355 "2023-03-19T12:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![survinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@survinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/survinga)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/21 "2024-06-05T19:34:12Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > You forget that their whole idea is to leave those who cross them to forever worry if the nutjob with the hammer is going to break into the house today. That’s one thing the fascist right now brings to the table. There’s that fear that if we’re a public servant who doesn’t do exactly what they want, we might be the victim of stochastic terror. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/22 "2024-06-05T19:40:12Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > The message was garbled in translation. > > > He said inevitably, there will be another pandemic, whether this next year or decades from now. Furthermore, the most likely year for the next pandemic to happen is next year. And this statement is always true, for every point in human history. To explain: Every year has some baseline chance of having a pandemic. Say it’s 1%. Well, then, there’s a 1% chance of a pandemic next year. And there’s also a 1% chance of a pandemic two years from now… but it won’t be the “next pandemic” if one this year beats it to it. So two years from now only has a 0.99% chance of being the “next pandemic”. And so on for each subsequent year. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/23 "2024-06-05T20:41:56Z")
Wait. That’s confusing. Possibly just to me. Are you saying there’s percentage of a chance, every year, of a pandemic? Subsequent years that percentage increases. And continues to add up every year there is not a pandemic? Am I understanding? ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/24 "2024-06-05T20:51:55Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Are you saying there’s percentage of a chance, every year, of a pandemic? Yes. More or less the same percentage of a chance each and every year. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Subsequent years that percentage increases. And continues to add up every year there is not a pandemic? No. The percentage does not increase every year. Instead, the chance of it being _the next_ pandemic _decreases_ every year, because it could happen sooner—in a previous year. In other words, the chance of the next pandemic being 100 years from now is fairly low…because it will likely happen sooner than that. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/25 "2024-06-06T04:26:02Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > It was a show alright. > She wasn’t the only one. > Rand Paul has a book out about him. Yes, Rand Paul is a despicable liar. He absolutely disgusts me. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/26 "2024-06-18T22:00:41Z")
His new book “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” came out today. > **[Why Anthony Fauci approaches every trip to the White House as if it's his last](https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/nx-s1-5006045/anthony-fauci-on-call-covid-19)** > > Over the course of his decades-long career in public health, Fauci vowed he would never shy away from speaking truth the U.S. president— even when it was inconvenient. Fauci's memoir is On Call. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/27 "2024-06-18T22:07:05Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Trump supporters are desperate to find someone else to blame for his mismanagement of the pandemic. The goal is to create social media soundbites that hopefully will turn into another conspiracy theory or strengthen an existing one. Yes. If Fauci is responsible for causing the pandemic, then Trump is not the guy who massively failed to respond to a natural disaster, resulting in unparalleled death. He’s just the guy who massively failed to respond to a human-caused disaster, resulting in unparalleled death, and never noticed that the guy responsible was standing next to him during countless press conferences. Why this would make Trump look better is a question for the ages. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/28 "2024-06-18T22:11:09Z")
The DNI report is good place to start: [https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf) There are two levels of debunking here. There is the idea that COVID was originally leaked from WIV, which is likely untrue but not a bonkers conspiracy theory. Then the idea that the NIH grant and Fauci personally had anything to do with it. Which is absolutely bonkers ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/29 "2024-06-19T19:25:08Z")
I have been watching some of Fauci’s press tour and I really like the man. He does a good job of explaining the problems they had dealing with the AIDS crisis and takes responsibility for his part. I also had forgotten what it was like to hear an intelligent, thoughtful scientist talk about the Covid virus and vaccine rather than raving lunatics. Between him and John Roberts’ secretly recorded tapes, my faith in some of humanitiy is almost restored. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/30 "2024-06-19T19:36:44Z")
I have this ‘canned comment’ as a general proposition, but it fits the RW need to identify bogeymen for every single issue rather handily: > [@](#): > > If Biden is responsible for the two current wars, illegal immigration, crime, or global inflation, then – using that logic – Trump is responsible for COVID. And COVID killed a million Americans and cost the US some FOURTEEN TRILLION dollars. > > This isn’t organized religion. You don’t _get_ to blame Satan for all the bad and give “all glory to God.” > > Let’s be grown-ups here. So, their _ad hoc_ sacrificial lamb for COVID was Fauci, and – to a lesser degree – Drs. Birx and Redfield (CDC) and Bill Gates. Without the aforementioned piñatas, many difficult questions would have demanded to be faced. To wit: Who did the CDC, NIH, and NIAID keep posted? To whom did Peter Navarro send his memoranda (January 2020, warning of of likely mass Coronavirus death)? To whom did the intelligence community give advance notice of a pandemic? Who defunded the CDC? Who fired the American epidemiologist embedded with the Chinese IN China to monitor and work on such diseases? Who disbanded the NSC’s Global Health Unit? Who was in a position to _replenish_ the Strategic National Stockpiles? Also, according to Dear Leader, if CHINA had acted sooner, more lives would have been saved. But the same is NOT true of the USA?? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/31 "2024-06-19T20:09:49Z")
> [@survinga](#): > > Fauci has become the hard-right’s go-to for whatever was bad about the pandemic. Hard-right? I guess that does describe the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/32 "2024-06-19T22:27:04Z")
I for one have replaced “GOP” with “RWT” = “Reactionary Wacko Traitors” for all purposes. I do not believe I am being hyperbolic; merely accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/33 "2024-06-19T22:45:51Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > If Biden is responsible for the two current wars, illegal immigration, crime, or global inflation, then – using that logic – Trump is responsible for COVID. And COVID killed a million Americans and cost the US some FOURTEEN TRILLION dollars. You’re forgetting that Covid was a plandemic involving a fake virus no worse than the flu (if viruses even exist) which was deliberately released as a weapon of mass genocide which could easily be overcome by universally safe, cheap remedies purchased at supermarkets and feed stores. That’s the relentless logic we’re dealing with from the Fauci-as-Satan crowd. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/34 "2024-06-19T23:00:38Z")
Right? It’s head spinning. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/35 "2024-06-20T02:07:34Z")
Well the Kansas Attorney General is doing something about this: > **[Kansas AG Kris Kobach accuses Pfizer of misleading vaccine marketing in...](https://kansasreflector.com/2024/06/17/kansas-ag-kobach-accuses-pfizer-of-misleading-vaccine-marketing-in-lawsuit/)** > > Attorney General Kris Kobach files a civil lawsuit against Pfizer, alleging deceptive marketing of its COVID-19 vaccine and violating Kansas's Consumer Protection Act. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355.md?page=1)