“Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness,
but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off.
It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf.
If you summon it by the right word by its right name, it will come.”
Franz Kafka
The literati are frantically papering over gaping holes in the narrative by COVIDtm characters. Historical revisionism feeding the Memory Hole. Don’t Look Back, Here’s what you saw in the rear view mirror.
Jerome Groopman, M.D. is a reliable rabbi for medical dogma, evidenced by his puffpiece on Anthony Fauci in The Plague Doctor: Anthony Fauci on What’s Ailing America (The New Yorker, June 24, 2024). A review of the autobiography by the bureaucrat who identified himself as Science. I would need to double my dose of anti-nausea meds to read the actual book, and Groopman’s worshipful review was barely kept down.
“Fauci’s career was one of the most consequential and prominent in American medicine in the past 50 years. He became demonized as a liar who hid evidence about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, funded dangerous laboratory studies, misled Congress and was responsible for countless unnecessary deaths.
“The two greatest public health crises of Fauci’s tenure at NIAID” followed a pattern. Claims for “asymptomatic infections, scramble for tests and treatments, public information campaigns and the search for a vaccine- miraculously fast for Covid -19, still unfulfilled for H.I. V. Each time he is vilified, first by militant AIDS activists, later by anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.”
Groopman traces Fauci’s futile stabs at killing the elusive retrovirus from low doses of chemotherapy and steroids he had used on patients “with rare autoimmune disorders to blunt inflammatory response. It was serendipitously perfect preparation for studying” AIDS, but not helpful for longevity. Trained as immunologist and infectious disease specialist, Fauci rode this new infectious disease that destroys the immune system instead of inflaming it, making them highly susceptible to opportunistic infections.
Like immunocompromised people wielded as a weapon against antivaxxers refusing to protect those who could not be jabbed. Until the invalkids were invited to the head of the line for covaxxes. Don’t look back. Groopman does it for you.
“The first major advance in treatment was AZT, a drug originally tested for cancer chemotherapy, [from the basement of Burroughs Welcome (of the Welcome Trust), too toxic by far]. Lab results showed it to be a potent inhibitor of HIV replication.” Due to journalistic or medical ethics, Groopmanadmits he “participated in the pivotal clinical trial of AZT for AIDS patients”, and coauthored the NEJM article touting what Fauci summarized in his book as just the facts.
RFK jr has a different interpretation of the pattern in The Real Anthony Fauci, “The AZT approval process was a shakedown cruise for Tony Fauci. Dr. Fauci’s embellishments [about casual contact infection] made HIV positive the modern equivalent of lepers. His focus on a single magic bullet over off-patent therapeutic medications [to treat opportunistic infections]… utterly beholden to pharmaceutical companies…. hostile to any product that would compete with AZT.”
When Tony finally deigned to sit down and meet with activists he was “dismissive, manipulative and arrogant, demanding the “gold standard” of medical science research as proof for these generic drugs. AZT trials were anything but “randomized, double blinded, placebo controlled.”
Hastily patented for HIV treatment, produced for pennies, priced at ten grand per year, Burroughs used their own “army of Private Investigators to dominate NIAID’s clinical trial system… formed a web linking [drug companies} and the NIH… sit on the institute’s key drug selection committee. They were a power unto themselves.
“AZT’s horrendous toxicity hobbled researchers struggling to design study protocols that would make it appear either safe or effective.” They managed by skipping animal trials, fragmenting participants into 12 cities, steaming ahead with record setting speed, cutting trials too short to detect “safety signals”, as an “ethical choice.” Needless to say, AZT was approved as the first drug to treat AIDS- killing more tens of thousands before it was pulled from the western world.
Fauci refused to “issue guidelines urging physicians to prophylax [use low cost aerosolized antibiotics for] those patients deemed at high risk for pneumonia. Fauci’s decision cost the lives of tens of thousands of people.” ACT Up was at theatrical odds with Fauci, until he used them to pass the Emergency Use Authorization drug fast track. Win-Win.
This might seem like ancient history, but Kennedy points out the pattern. “Fauci mimicked this successful model” with his Covid guidelines, exclusion of therapeutic alternatives, and “complete vertical control over the drug approval process” to shepherd mRNA inoculations through the EUA fast pass.
Celia Farber, fellow substacker was a pioneer journalist exposing many central facts of this “conspiracy theory” for SPIN magazine (a Rolling Stone competitor). She paid the price like Rachel Carson and RFK jr, but continues to shine light into the Belly of the Beast.
Hum along if you don’t know the right words. Call from the gate and the dog will come. “Stand by the grey stone when the thrash knocks and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the keyhole."*
* Smaug’s Back Door.
Thanks Stephen. Quite a lot to digest. RFK's book "The REAL Anthony Fauci "does give the oomplete history of his "work" and so very well footnoted for anyone who cares to really look. Mostly people just look away.
martine