The man who became so synonymous with public health advice during the pandemic that he famously claimed attacks directed at him were attacks on science itself, Dr Anthony Fauci has been hoovering up awards in Ireland this week for his contributions to the Covid response and more.
As is typical of prominent American visitors to our shores, Dr Fauci has received little but praise alongside the awards he was invited over for. The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland acknowledged his “outstanding” contribution to public health with its prestigious Stearne medal, which was followed by a Fulbright Ireland Public Service Award and an honorary fellowship from the UCD School of Medicine.
Despite the awards weighing his pockets down, Dr Fauci must have felt as light as a feather this week as a result of the warm words politicians and members of the media had for him.
Congratulating Dr Fauci on winning the Stearne medal, Tánaiste Micheál Martin said that his “commitment to evidence-based decision making and speaking truth to power had an impact far beyond the US”.
“It helped shape public health policy around the globe, and save countless lives,” the Tánaiste wrote on X. Meanwhile, an article in the Irish Independent described him as “the calm voice of reason during daily White House briefings with Donal Trump during the height of the pandemic”.
Congratulations Dr. Anthony Fauci on winning the Stearne Medal.
Your commitment to evidence-based decision making and speaking truth to power had an impact far beyond the U.S.
It helped shape public health policy around the globe, and save countless lives.@RCPI_news pic.twitter.com/HMbCDFTx6J
— Micheál Martin (@MichealMartinTD) April 17, 2024
I was taken aback, however, as I browsed the articles that appeared following a google of Dr Fauci’s name, by the difference in tone American articles struck about their former chief medical advisor.
Whereas Irish outlets noted the awards he was set to receive for his scientific life and employed only positive headlines, American outlets were less quick to give compliment.
“Mystery as more Fauci emails surface and raise questions about his links to Covid lab leak – after he was accused of secretly conspiring with the CIA,” read one headline, while another stated, “Four years on, Covid damage remains while Fauci & Co. pay no price”.
I’m not in a position to attest to the veracity of those claims (undoubtedly many of our readers have views on the matters), but what struck me was the mainstream scepticism – inquisition, even – in American media of those at the helm of their nation’s pandemic response. Meanwhile, as we parade Dr Fauci around on our shoulders and old friends rematerialise out of the academic ether to greet him with a triumphant smile (Dr Tony Holohan), our Covid inquiry has once again slipped out to the peripheries.
It was a pleasure to meet @DrTonyFauciMD today, to welcome him to @ucddublin
and to share our experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/jq6KpCdUyV— Dr Tony Holohan (@DrTonyHolohan) April 18, 2024
The last we heard of that was from Taoiseach Simon Harris at the recent Fine Gael Ard Fheis, where he said that a memo on the terms of reference for the inquiry is “almost ready” to be brought to cabinet. Mr Harris, who lest we forget was minister for health at the start of the pandemic, said that the inquiry would be “really important”.
That vaguest of timelines – “almost ready” – coupled with the limited time this Government has remaining doesn’t make me optimistic that we’re going to see any significant movement on our inquiry anytime soon, especially when the last thing they’ll want ahead of a general election will be to remind the public of their failures during one of the country’s most difficult trials. No doubt it was an extremely difficult time to be in office – no matter what way you turned you were going to make a significant number of people angry or scared to death, but the principle remains: an inquiry ought to dredge up failings, and that’s undesirable from the Government’s perspective.
But perhaps they wouldn’t have to worry about that – then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said in January that whatever form the inquiry eventually took, it would take a “no-blame approach” to proceedings.
Now, while Mr Varadkar’s word is no longer binding due to his rapid exit from political stage left, he isn’t the only person of consequence to think this way.
Tanaiste Micheal Martin said following the British approach of an “adversarial legal inquiry” wouldn’t be of benefit to Irish society: “I’ve always made the point that if you go in with this sort of interrogatory approach, the next pandemic or the next major crisis you’ll have everybody looking over their shoulders in terms of ‘how would this look in the context of a future inquiry if I behave this way or that way’.
Meanwhile, Philip Nolan, of NPHET modelling advisory group fame, agreed that the UK model was one to be avoided. Instead, he advocated for an “open, honest conversation about what went well and what could we learn”.
This is despite the fact that many in Government apparently acknowledged the negative effects of lockdown as a response to a pandemic, with Mr Varadkar saying in January of this year that those ill effects were “not just on people’s jobs and businesses but also delayed and deferred diagnoses… which did happen. In housing construction we lost thousands of houses because of the housing construction lockdown”.
Despite the softly, softly approach the political and medical establishment prefer, and despite the fact that a significant proportion of Irish society looks back relatively favourably on the way Ireland’s pandemic response was conducted (according to past polls, anyway), these negative elements cannot be ignored.
As of March 2023, nearly two-thirds (64%) of the public thought pandemic restrictions in 2020 and 2021 were continuing to impact on the education, emotional well-being and development of children.
An astonishing 39% of people surveyed in the same poll said that they socialise less than they did before the pandemic, while 20% said their mental health had deteriorated.
Around the same time, ex-NPHET member, Professor Martin Cormican came forward with strong words of criticism for the way the pandemic response was handled. He said that the decision to implement a complete ban on nursing home visits “was never a humane thing to do”.
He said NPHET depended “too much on fear” to influence the public’s behaviour and was influenced by “vested interests”. As well as this, he criticised restrictions such as the long-term closure of schools, social distancing and the mask mandate, among other things.
The list of accusations you could level at lockdowns is potentially endless, not least among them the excess deaths Ireland has suffered since the pandemic’s end. Eurostat noted that in February of this year, among the 12 EU countries that recorded excess deaths, the highest rates were observed in the Netherlands (12.5 %), Ireland (9.4 %), Slovenia (7.9 %), Austria (6.6 %), and Luxembourg (4.7 %).
It’s likely that there will never be a final word said, in any country, on what the correct approach to the pandemic response was, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the way we handled it was far from victimless. Perhaps our time would be better spent out from under Dr Fauci’s intoxicating light, where we can apply ourselves to sober consideration of whether the experts deserve awards at all.
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Fauci is an INHUMANE MONSTER who ran horrifying medical experiments on black children – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In his book “The Real Anthony Fauci” It seems our Irish politicians and medical associations align themselves with very questionable friends. The question of excess deaths in Ireland is a question that’s been pushed under the carpet, even though statistics clearly show this to be the case. Forced vaccinations with an experimental shot that by definition was not a vaccine. The use of the drug Midazolam in old eople’s homes?
Covid19 was the greatEst Medical Hoax ever perpetrated on Humanity
The fake Vaccines which did not prevent Infection or Transmission caused a multiplicity of injuries from Heart Falures.turbo cancers,dementia infertility,sterility, premature births and losses .
It has been ascertained from reports released under FOI coercion by the US, CENTRE for DISEASE CONTROL (CDC), that 770 Adverse Reaction are attributed to the fake Vaccine.
This was the greatest Crime ever on humanity with deaths and injuries to continue for over a generation due to DNA damage.
This was a planned depopulation program.
The creation of the fake Pandemic geban in the Old Folks Homes ,which were isolated during the Lockdowns.Patients were ethanised by the use of Mizadomal ,morphine,deprivation of medicne ,food and water.Their deaths attributed to CAOVID 19 and the inflated figures blazoned abroad by the complicit Media.
The pcr test were also used to create the plague Hysetria.even tho derided by its inventor Dr Kary Mulliss.
The same Fauci who ran horrible experiments on children and used Covid to fulfil his own power hungry agenda? That Fauci? The man should be locked up, not praised.
Micheál Martin of Fauci: “commitment to evidence-based decision making and speaking truth . . .”
The lies and deceit around covid by politicians and government experts and even Fauci is scandalous. Mainstream media pushed the approved covid narrative and concealed anything adverse. Those of us who followed the official statements noticed how they kept changing. It was going to be devastating like the Spanish flu a century ago. We just had to have a lockdown and all wear face masks. We would have to be vaccinated because it would stop the spread and prevent people getting sick and dying. Well vaccinated people did get sick – some very sick with covid. Then we were told that people would have to keep on getting boosters and my GP is still sending out reminders. Strange but those of us who refused the vaccination – and some of us were exposed to serious cases of covid of friends and family – did not contract the virus or only had a mild reaction no worse than a flu.
But there is the troubling matter of the increase in “excess deaths” which cannot be attributed to lockdowns or unavailability of medical services. There is also no good explanation for the number of young people, especially athletes, that have died suddenly. Nothing has happened like this since WW2 ended. The authorities refuse to examine if there is a link to the covid vaccines. What we do know is that pharmaceutical companies have made a killing because of the covid vaccinations.
Again they made money off tax payers money just like the refugee scam.
Food shortage scam coming right up folks
Grow your own
I have never seen anyone as grovelling as Martin. I think he must have an inferiority complex. I absolutely LOVED when he could no give the bowl of Shamrock to Biden
fauci is not the problem – he is just a parasite doing what parasites do. the problem is with scum bag martin and scum bag holohan patting him on the back for murdering thousands of children
The nauseating servility and obsequity displayed to the mass murderer Fauci is a sad reflection on the cognitive levels of Irelands incompetent and mediocre politicians.
They are attempting to shore up each others long lost credibility and enforce the Big Lie that there was a Pandemic, and the Fake Vaccine was the cure.
Gustave Le Bon in his treatise the ‘Madness of Crowds’ analyses Mass hysteria as an incapacity to reason, lack of judgement and critical thinking ability, All displayed by a population controlled by Fear of the unknown and liberally fed by a complicit Media,and enforced by Govt.
That ship has sailed ,that train left the Station and that horse has long ago bolted.
There is no longer trust in Govt , Medical Institutions, Media ,Pharmaceuticla Corporations and their many lapdogs ,who collaborated in the mass murder and injury of the People of the World,
Many were cowards who succumbed to the hysteria ,many were bribed ,many were coerced to go along with the greatest Crime ever against humanity.
Covid 19 was also an IQ test and only the strong minded ,with inquiring minds and distrust of phoney ‘experts .resisted despite the torrent of abuse,peer pressure and coercion.
90% of the People of Ireland have proven to be braindead sheep and easily manipulated by Mass Media propaganda and have paid dearly for their naivety ,trust in Govt and Medical Institutions,
We have already witnessed the ‘blowback’ at the recent Referenda, but I expect every effort will be made to punish their malevolent tormentors at every opportunity in the coming months,
We do not Forget and we do not Forgive the many evils done to our Nation, our women and children. by a Psychotic, grotesque ,evil mendacious Regime of fools ,charlatans thieves and retards
ASmazing your commentators are familiar with Kennedy’s critique but the mainstreram media and our excuses for politicians are not. Therein lies a tale.
Lots of reputable data provided that casts huge doubts on the whole mRNA treatment.
No one wants to acknowledge it.
Why’s that.?
I still want one of “them”, don’t particularly care who, to let me know how being unvaccinated made me a danger to anyone? Think about that for just a minute…
If someone believes that “it” [needlework, masks etc.] works, it should be enough if that believer uses it him/her-self. There’s no mechanical or moral reason to force a non-believer to use it.
Ongoing excess death rates around the world have been linked to lockdowns as many people didn’t get early treatment for cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. Covid had an overall low death rate, yes higher than the flu for the elderly and those with comorbidities, but overall it killed only a tiny minority of those who got it yet health services almost completely went in to “Covid only’ operations. This was utterly baffling in that if you have cancer and it’s not treated asap then you definitely die but with Covid you had a statistically low chance of dying even if old or comorbid.
Lockdowns were a complete overreaction but once employed as a strategy the fear and panic narrative that sustained them had to be maintained because the careers, egos and reputations of so many “experts” and the politicians who listened to them would have been ruined if they admitted they overreacted. So many businesses, jobs and lives were lost as a result of lockdowns and no politician who backed them or haughty medical “expert” who promoted lockdowns is ever going to admit that they got it wrong.
If pictures could paint a thousand words. Even though Rand Paul proved this genocidal lunatic that would put mengele to shame, Martin and holohan award him and stick their heads up his arse. This is vile considering the evils these men have done collectively.
Further update on Rand Paul and Fauci/Wuhan links.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-says-email-exchange-top-fauci-aide-ecohealth-looks-cover-up
Thanks Maurice, appreciated that. Yes the nic was actively funding gain of function because the us government told him to move it from the usa to wuhan. You see this is not actually faucis first time at the post with this rubbish. He was actually put in charge in the nic in the 1980’s and it was about to have its funding cut because there was no actual pandemics to worry about. Not long after his appointment came aids, what a lucjy coincidence that was, then we had all the flu epidemics, swine flu, bird flu, flu flu and the money kept on rolling in because this is the man who was behind them all and of course pharma paid him as we know as well as his staff. The reality of the plandemic is that it was just another flu relabeled as a coronavirus and they played off the fact that they have lied to us on how our bodies work to pull this crap. To make it look real in the usa, they injected patients with remdisivir which actually caused patients to intentionally deteriorate so they could get them on ventilators which were set a pressures too high for their lungs, coupled with starvation and dehydration, the passed away. An example oflying to people about how the body works is sweating. We are only told that its to cool your body down which is true but what we are not told is it is also your bodies way of excreting toxins too. The more you stink, the more toxins you have in your body. Coronavirus is not the weapon, the mrna was and nobody was told about what was in it and what would be the side effects in full which is a violation of the nurenberg code. It was big business fo the sabatian frankists who that lot up there work for and our parties all went along with it. More people died from the mrna and are still dying today than from the flu which is what it really was and we know this because the flu disappeared. How could you have a highly transmissible virus like coronavirus and no flu virus transmission. This was nothing more than global tyranny and a global genocide but yet none of these people are in prison.
Gript – although I continue to subscribe to it – is way behind the curve on the “ol’ gene therapy” and what very well credentialled people are stating that it has brought in its wake. The usual guff is put forward by acquaintances of mine – when I mention people like the oncologist Prof Dalgleish – I mean guff that “there’s always outliers” – namely, there’s always a small few scientists/doctors who will maintain the contrary “in the face of Science”. I believe that possibly the worst public health scandal – with the roll-out of the “ol’ gene therapy” in 2021 – in the history of mankind has occurred. The “onus of proof” seems to be on those who believe this appalling vista has materialized to bring forward solid evidence of their claims – which is very strange – given that the “ol’ gene therapy” was only the subject of an “emergency use authorization” in the States (a “conditional authorization” under EU law) – due to the limited testing of the “gene therapy”. In fact, the number of eminent people – far more credentialled than “Dr.Faustus” – who’ve brought forward evidence of their concerns means that – on any reasonable basis of “do no harm” – the onus now is on Govts./health authorities to institute, immediately, a thorough investigation of the matter. Then again – pigs may fly …..
The best of my family GPs and a number of medical Professors I knew all believed that medicines should not be handed out like candies/sweets. They believed our natural immune system could handle viral infections like flu (hence also covid) but to watch for a serious secondary bacterial infection that needs an antibiotic.
I believe our vaccination progamme was medical malpractice and certainly unnecessary for children and young adults. People like myself were branded science deniers while in reality we believed the extraordinary human immune system was a fact while governments and health authorities denied its efficacy without any scientific proof.
I see the HSE have just announced their new culling campaign for the 80+ called “COVID-19 Spring Booster Campaign.” Two of my children were very ill after vaccination and boosters (and who knows what the long term side effects will be). I had one of them visiting at the time but despite being unvaccinated and taking no special precautions I did not get sick but I am sick of the covid alarmism.
Pfizer and Moderna are investing heavily in what is now being called Turbo Cancer. Something that can be a result of the nano-lipids and one particular one that is known to cause cancer.
They are offering a ‘flu-shot’, that also contains a booster… I’m keeping away from that one. Anyone who tries to shove metal in me in the future, will receive and equal reaction from me, as self-defence! Even if it is a WHO specialist!
J Osborne ! A very different editorial bias in you current post with gript.ie, in contrast to your previous position with the Irish Catholic, which took at strident establishment view of the covid thing. Do you feel more unfettered in your current billet??
Great article. Mile buiochas.
Remind me again who (I’m sure it was some mad far right person) called our response to the pandemic a “shit-show”, or the most senior civil servant in the department of health?
Hard to understand how he can merit any award related to science, when a proper application of the scientific method would surely struggle to detect any novel pathogen since 2019/20.
This whole exercise seems more like an elaborate rebranding exercise for general respiratory disorders, as political cover for a programme of universal “seasonal flu treatment” and massive looting of treasuries.
With a few other tyrannical policies thrown in for good measure.
Shame!!
My my ..mother Theresa illegitimate son sure does get around all Jesuit controlled,these murderers and their acquaintances think they have got away with this😆a little reminder ..the Lord Jesus Christ is still on the throne and He has a special place in hell where the worm never sleeps and remember hell is for eternity,with burning fire and brimstone as well as the their God Lucifer whom they worship who will also share the same faith as them….