Why Fauci Emails Are A Convenient Distraction For Democrats And Their Media Outlets
A book by Dr Anthony Fauci entitled Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward, has been pulled by bookshops and Amazon. Withdrawal of the book, which was due to be published in November, appears to be linked to hundreds of emails which have emerged.
Earlier this week BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post together published more than 4,000 pages of emails from and to Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the man in charge of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Both the Washington Post and Buzzfeed have a history of supporting Democrat presidents and was heavily critical of the Trump administration.
The emails, which date from between January and June 2020, have been seized on by the Democrats and their allies in the media to try and blame the 80-year-old and also tarnish the reputation of the Trump administration.
But the enduring message from reading the emails is simply what an enormous task Fauci had amid a vacuum of solid information, especially in March 2020 when the pandemic first hit the US.
Politicians from Britain to Brazil were struggling to get a handle on the pandemic in the spring of 2020.
The United States has seen 34 million cases and 611,000 deaths - the most in the world - and many people have criticised the Trump administration for its unwillingness to impose a lockdown or mandatory mask-wearing when the virus first arrived in America.
In the trove of emails Fauci discussed masks and different drugs that could possibly be used to treat COVID, including the hydroxychloroquine that was promoted by the former US president, Donald Trump, and received mixed reaction.
In one of them Dr Fauci also doubted that masks really work against COVID-19.
Fauci has not reacted to the disappearance of his book from online bookstores but he has said the content of some of the emails had been taken "out of context".
During the pandemic, Fauci emerged as a high-profile public figure, enjoying significant support and trust of the population.
So why is he being pilloried now?
Is it to distract attention away from the lacklustre early days of the Biden administration, which have been littered with failures and inaction?
When Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd in April, President Biden promised to push through police reforms.
But on 25 May the Biden administration had to admit defeat after the Justice in Policing Act failed to make it through Congress.
Biden has managed to push through a US$1.9 trillion stimulus bill but critics point out that only nine percent of the spending will go on fighting COVID-19, only one percent on vaccines and 0.3 percent on schools.
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