Wednesday 21 September 2022 03:35 PM Fauci mocked his OWN rules for indoor dining and claimed he could get 'people ... trends now
Comments made by Dr. Anthony Fauci at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have been outlined in a new book written by a former White House official.
Brian Morgenstern, a former White House deputy press secretary, discusses statements he overheard Fauci making in his book, 'Vignettes & Vino.'
Morgenstern refers to Fauci as 'awful' and an 'egomaniac' while recalling moments when the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases mocked pandemic restrictions he proposed.
'I vividly recall my blood boiling during an infuriating meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House when Fauci laughed about his own goggles comment, making it clear how cynical he was and the he could get people to believe anything,' Morgenstern wrote.
'He went on to laugh about how 'a**-backwards' it was that people entered a restaurant wearing a mask, then sat down and conversed with people without a mask.
'Of course, he wasn't saying things to that effect publicly, just laughing privately at the American rubes he was fooling.'
Former White House deputy press secretary Brian Morgenstern (pictured) will release his new book, 'Vignettes and Vino,' which details behavior by Dr. Anthony Fauci
According to the book, co-authored with Brian's wife, Teresa, Fauci would mock COVID-19 restrictions that he created or suggested
Morgenstern: 'He went on to laugh about how 'a**-backwards' it was that people entered a restaurant wearing a mask, then sat down and conversed with people without a mask'
In a July 2020 interview with ABC News medical correspondent Jennifer Ashton, Fauci urged 'if you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it.'
After a follow-up question of whether eye protection would be formally recommended, Fauci responded that 'it might, if you really want perfect protection of the mucosal surfaces.'
More criticism of Fauci ensued the following month when he sat without a mask with his friend and wife at the Washington National's season-opener.
In August 2022, Fauci joked about having 'cooked up' COVID-19 in his kitchen during an interview with friend and colleague Dr. Larry Corey, a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Corey noted that, as they were in Washington state, they were 'at the epicenter of the initial outbreak' where WA1, the ancestral model strain that traveled with someone from Wuhan, China to Seattle, was first seen in America.
Fauci piped in with a joke: 'No, I developed the ancestral model strain. I created it.'
The entire room started to laugh, with Corey responding: 'That's right, you let it loose.'
Fauci, 81, drew criticism after appearing at the Washington Nationals 2020 season-opener without his mask, as the Washington D.C. area required mask-wearing outdoors
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