Fauci Diaries Reveal Gloating About Lockdowns, Fame Seeking
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The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as early as January 2020 did not believe that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese wet market. He later publicly insisted that a wet market was the likely origin of the virus while dismissing a theory that the virus had a man-made origin.
That was among the many revelations uncovered by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who on Saturday released portions of Fauci’s diary from the pandemic. The diary posts occurred between December 2019 and December 2022.
In his diary entries, Fauci also took credit for lockdowns, blasted his critics, fixated on COVID-19 death tallies, and reveled in his sudden fame.
Early in the outbreak, Fauci wrote that “we know” the wet market—which was widely claimed as the origin of the outbreak of the virus—was not the original source.
“Remember, early on the Chinese were saying that there is no human to human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market,” Fauci wrote on Jan. 26, 2020. “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.”
Publicly, Fauci later dismissed a man-made origin of COVID-19 and insisted that animal-to-human transmission at a Wuhan wet market was the likely origin of the virus.
Shortly after writing that the wet market was likely not the source of the pandemic Fauci wrote about a meeting he had with twelve prominent scientists about the origin of COVID-19 and noted that only two thought it was natural. He added that “the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible.”
Despite the testimony of the majority of those scientists, Fauci later pushed the natural or so-called Proximal Origin theory of the virus and dismissed the lab leak theory.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” he said in an interview with National Geographic in May 2020.