# Rand Paul somehow gets AND RELEASES Anthony Fauci's COVID-era diary **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 28, 2026, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973 "2026-07-28T04:37:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/41 "2026-07-30T19:40:48Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > 1. The bulk of material in the diary is not about medicine nor saving lives but, it seems, tracking his own personal coverage in the press. And that is swallowing the Republican hook, that was not a diary as in a private one, it was notes that he did in a government computer, that they are implying that it was a personal diary show already that the f’ng worse Republicans are counting on the general ignorance of what those notes were. Back then government officials had to input notes of their beliefs or experiences at the time, and as new research and information unfolded, those notes became outdated. Here one has to notice that it will be almost impossible to find the real malfeasance that the current administration is doing as the notes from people that are supposed to be our servants are many times not recorded on government servers. > **[Three Ways Trump Administration Officials Are Evading Record-Keeping...](https://americanoversight.org/three-ways-trump-administration-officials-are-evading-record-keeping-requirements-so-far/)** > > Less than three months into the Trump administration, there have been three reported instances of officials using unofficial platforms for government work — a serious problem for ensuring work isn’t destroyed. So yeah, I don’t think Fauci was perfect, but the Republican ones badgering Fauci and the science (that still saved many back then), are following the worse angels of their nature. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/42 "2026-07-30T19:51:22Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > And that is swallowing the Republican hook Or it means that I saw a headline that said, “Paul releases Fauci diary”, I tracked down the primary source and ignored all secondary, and just read the fucking thing. I’ve spent years being told that I was getting everything against Trump from Liberals because I was reading the raw primary source reports created by Trump’s own appointees and DOJ as they arrested his personal friends and took them to court. Not a single liberal source between my eyes and my understanding of the situation. Do you really want to get in on the same business as MAGA of magically knowing what other people know and how they came about that information? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/43 "2026-07-30T19:51:44Z")
> [@robby](#): > > 1. You shouldn’t put down anything in writing on a government server you wouldn’t want to be publicized. Especially a personal diary. That’s on Fauci. Not really, the law encourages that he took notes as he saw it as important for the record, Public records laws guarantee public access to government-held documents and meetings. As noted before, for the current Republicans, “rules for thee, but not for me”. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/44 "2026-07-30T19:56:02Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Do you really want to get in on the same business as MAGA of magically knowing what other people know and how they came about that information? Just saying, any news source nowadays can be very ignorant of the right context. Knowing it then, why should we assume that the Republicans in congress are right on their accusations? When they are the ones poisoning the well? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/45 "2026-07-30T20:05:52Z")
Look, you can be pro-science while saying that official policy for nuclear detonation experiments is to work in remote, unpopulated locations. And you can be pro-science while saying that a group of scientists appear to have neglected policy by using questionable legalistic interpretation. There may be a political world where you have to support science, without question, even if it means that you have to defend Jeffrey Epstein’s funding of research into genetically modifying the human genuine to improve submissiveness in females or whatever other insane quandary. I’d rather assume that we’re not in that world on this forum, at least. We can admit that X scientist made a bad choice without having to fear that someone will misinterpret that to mean that we need to go back to living in caves and smearing polio into our pores just to make sure that we’re doing the good traditional living ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/46 "2026-07-30T20:15:30Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > [@Horatius](#): > > > > The later you start with trying to control the spread of a disease, the harder it is to control at all. > > If only he had played [Pandemic](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic) You’re kidding, right? Pandemic is a _cooperative_ game, where everyone wins or everyone loses. Trump is only going to play games where he can come out on top, screw everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/47 "2026-07-30T20:17:11Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I’d rather assume that we’re not in that world on this forum, at least. We can admit that X scientist made a bad choice without having to fear that someone will misinterpret that to mean that we need to go back to living in caves and smearing polio into our pores just to make sure that we’re doing the good traditional living That is, logically, a false choice. As I said, I don’t think Fauci was perfect, but the thing here is that there is very little to report that the scientist made a bad choice, it was a third medical group that did not follow procedure, and chances are, as it happens many times in manufactured controversies from the right, it is more likely that scientists involved with Fauci did notice first about the improper handling. One has to notice how in the past discussions about the science of global warming, the deniers jumped at any contradictions… contradictions that were found and dealt with by the proper climate scientists early on.. but never mind that, it is better for the ignorants in power to push for the idea that all scientists are evil… ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/48 "2026-07-30T20:33:22Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > As I said, I don’t think Fauci was perfect, but the thing here is that there is very little to report that the scientist made a bad choice And that’s an unreviewable or reviewable conclusion? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/49 "2026-07-30T20:34:19Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > A million Americans died from Covid, experts say anywhere between 1/3 to 2/3rd died due to trumps administrations incompetence. Which, in my opinion, makes him an unindicted mass murderer. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/50 "2026-07-30T20:44:24Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > And that’s an unreviewable or reviewable conclusion? As the evidence shows, of course is reviewable, but it is like having the climate change deniers passing their judgements on climate science. From the OP’s link: > In his posts on X, Paul highlights a few select excerpts from Fauci’s notes. For instance, he points to an entry on Jan. 26, 2020, not quite two months before the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, where Fauci writes, “the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market. … Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.” > > **Paul notes in his post, "The wet market was already off the table in [Fauci’s] own private notes**." > > **But in that same journal entry, Fauci adds, “Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.”** > > Not quite a week later, in an entry penned on Feb. 1, 2020, Fauci listed the dozen researchers who participated in a conference call debating the origins of COVID-19. Specifically, they were talking about the plausibility that a key part of the SARS-CoV-2 genome could have evolved naturally. > > According to his notes, only two of the scientists voiced support for a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2. “The rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible,” he wrote, referring to the hypothesis that the virus was engineered in a lab. > > **In response to that passage, Paul wrote on X, “This was never a 50/50 room,” suggesting that early scientific consensus considered a lab leak possible.** > > **But Goodrum says that this meeting took place very early on, when scientists did not have as much data as they would later. The virologist points out that science is iterative and takes time to play out. What some of those scientists believed at the start [gave way to a different consensus]**([https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/science/covid-lab-leak-fauci-kristian-andersen.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/science/covid-lab-leak-fauci-kristian-andersen.html)) as more evidence emerged. > > **“We make the best conclusions we have with the data we have at the time, but then you’re going to keep working,” she says. "And then you’re going to ultimately revise the original conclusions that you made. You will change your mind.** That’s absolutely fundamental to the way science is done. And it’s something that Fauci wasn’t really given any latitude to do." > . Yeah, what is going on **now** is a Kangaroo court in congress led by Rand Paul with assistance from the Quack in chief from MAHA. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/51 "2026-07-30T20:51:37Z")
And that has what to do with the price of tea in China? If you said that the AI is lying about the P3CO process and how it was applied, what does that have to do with Rand Paul and Republicans as reported third hand by NPR? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/52 "2026-07-30T21:02:43Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > And that has what to do with the price of tea in China? The report you linked at shows that the American Scientists and orgs dealt with it. > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > If you said that the AI is lying about the P3CO process and how it was applied, Nope, it can hallucinate as it is prone many times. > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > what does that have to do with Rand Paul and Republicans as reported third hand by NPR? 🤦‍♂️ NPR actually asked scientist [Felicia Goodrum](https://graduate.dartmouth.edu/mcb/people/felicia-goodrum), a virologist at Dartmouth College who spoke to NPR from the American Society for Virology meeting in Minneapolis. But that was to comment on the very, very misleading point Rand Paul was going on about. Point being that under that light, the accusations from the right are mostly Poppycock as the not personal diary from Fauci showed that Rand Paul does not know how timelines and scence works. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/53 "2026-07-30T21:21:27Z")
And? Again, what does that have to do with anything? I’ve now asked like 6 times whether you’d be willing to accept a review - to confirm or deny - the AI’s accusation, per as much documented record as can be established and, to the extent possible, placed within the most reasonable context. To my read, both Fauci and the Democratic Congress members argue that the Republican report was never reviewed under the standard of the P3CO and that “alternate” definitions of gain of function were used. And, further, that EcoHealth, to their mind, shouldn’t be investigated nor questioned as part of the pandemic review. Personally, I’d say that if everyone, including Fauci himself, the Democrats, and the AI all agree that the P3CO is the right measure then it’s unreasonable to say that it’s off limits to review it against that measure. We’re completely in our rights to pull together evidence and do the work that neither political party was willing to do. And likewise, I’m not seeing the argument that you can’t review NIAID’s handling of EcoHealth unless it’s proven to have been the cause of the pandemic. Any solid review should try to identify as much stuff of concern as possible in current methodologies and improve them. There’s no real world limit in private enterprise nor government that says that if you’re investigating an entity - for example, a restaurant to see if they’re stealing electricity from the grid that you can’t write them up for sourcing their water from a river downstream of the local sewage treatment facility, which you spotted whole researching the other thing. You can and should try to improve every part of the process as you can clearly spot. Do you have some argument against either of those principles? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/54 "2026-07-30T21:33:39Z")
I didn’t tune in to the kangaroo court that the Senate tried to put on, but in retrospect, I’m curious about what some of the questions were that were asked by the most concerned Republicans. What a shitshow, with worldwide consequences, Republicans have shat out onto this nation. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/55 "2026-07-30T21:50:22Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > . We’re completely in our rights to pull together evidence and do the work that neither political party was willing to do. Uh, the cites and the one you made already showed that it was done already. It was reviewed too. > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > And? Again, what does that have to do with anything? What shows is that it is very hard for some to acknowledge that it is the republicans the ones who are acting in very, very bad faith here. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/56 "2026-07-30T21:56:38Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > And likewise, I’m not seeing the argument that you can’t review NIAID’s handling of EcoHealth unless it’s proven to have been the cause of the pandemic. Missing the point, if that article was used by the AI, it was missing that Fauci was not fined or mentioned as being irresponsible. one could then ask why it was mentioned since no one has made the argument that we can’t review it, I did take a look and it is clear that some don’t like that it does not show what they think it did, it was geared towards finding what the funded group did wrong, not the cause of the pandemic… in other words: “_Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle_!” ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/57 "2026-07-30T22:39:37Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Who else would he be courting with this particular nonsense? Is there some significant non-MAGA population that buys into any of this? Rand Paul’s base and MAGA do likely coincide on the topic of Fauci being an Avatar of Evil. (Because both bases pride themselves on their lack of education and on resentment and dislike of the genuinely-educated.) In this _Get Fauci_ endeavor Rand Paul finds himself in Donald’s good graces. But of course there are many topics on which Paul opposes Donald. So this is one of their Venn Diagram overlaps. > [@DWMarch](#): > > Paul really wants there to be a story in which China tricked the US into paying for this disease and he brings the same energy to it as a 9/11 truther. But he completely misses the broader implications that came out of COVID. It doesn’t matter where it came from. What matters is the proof of concept showing that if you infect the US with a biological agent, random Americans will think of themselves as great patriots if they willingly spread it around. Repeated for emphasis: there is an absurdly large number of people out there who will deliberately infect themselves and others because freedom or some shit. To a bad actor, that’s way better than a nuke and (assuming it didn’t come from a lab) way easier to make too. But there’s Paul, continuing to yap about “gain of function” as if he’s figured out something profound. This deserves highlighting. Paul has beclowned himself with this project. But as you say, the _larger picture_ is that millions of Americans are so very easy to manipulate. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/58 "2026-07-30T22:50:54Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > NPR actually asked scientist [Felicia Goodrum](https://graduate.dartmouth.edu/mcb/people/felicia-goodrum), a virologist at Dartmouth College who spoke to NPR from the American Society for Virology meeting in Minneapolis. But that was to comment on the very, very misleading point Rand Paul was going on about. Point being that under that light, the accusations from the right are mostly Poppycock as the not personal diary from Fauci showed that Rand Paul does not know how timelines and scence works. Rand Paul _ought_ to understand how science works, given that he’s an eye surgeon. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/59 "2026-07-30T22:56:53Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > > > We’re completely in our rights to pull together evidence and do the work that neither political party was willing to do. > > Uh, the cites and the one you made already showed that it was done already. It was reviewed too. That seems to say that it’s a quick and easy assignment not worth resisting, then? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973/60 "2026-07-30T23:21:44Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > That seems to say that it’s a quick and easy assignment not worth resisting, then? And it was, does the AI has a better cite for the matter at hand? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-somehow-gets-and-releases-anthony-faucis-covid-era-diary/1031973.md?page=4)