The Fauci Variants
“Covid is Rising in California Again—Just as School and Festival Season Start,” warns the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times cautions, “Covid Rising in California, How Bad Will it Be?” For Ian Miller of Outkick, these headlines are evidence of the media “desperately trying to bring Covid panic back.”
According to the Times, California was “walloped by its worst summertime surge since 2022.” Miller found “walloped” a strange description for a lower test-positive rate, and notes that deaths attributed to COVID were also “significantly lower” in 2024 than in previous years. As in 2020, deaths attributed to COVID were not necessarily caused by COVID, and the same goes for illnesses. For example, California health officials have been warning of “razor blade throat,” which Miller finds “an entirely made-up condition done to describe normal reactions to seasonal respiratory illnesses.” And of course, the remedy is the same.
State Public Health officer Dr. Erica Pan, director of the California Department of Public Health, proclaims that everyone aged six months and older “should have access and the choice to receive currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines, with an emphasis on protecting higher-risk individuals, such as infants and toddlers, pregnant individuals and others with risks for serious disease.” The quest for vaccination of infants and toddlers in 2025, Miller noted, came “despite the lack of testing for boosters targeted at nonexistent variants, risk of side effects, and miniscule efficacy that rapidly wanes over time.”
According to Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Katy Grimes of the California Globe discovered, every state reports “very low” level of respiratory illness activity. Even so, California officials find an “uptick” in something called “COVID flu,” which is most likely the flu, the whole flu, and nothing but the flu.
“The Covid flu hysteria and controls have conditioned many Americans not to believe the government the next time,” Grimes explains. “We need to ask our politicians and elected officials, why people in government want to cause fear. And notably, so do people running newspapers and media.”
In similar style, Ian Miller recalls, “the many, many pieces of misinformation laundered through the media throughout the pandemic. Media outlets are creating an atmosphere of permanent fear for susceptible members of the public who refuse to admit they were misled by Anthony Fauci, the CDC, the ‘expert’ community, and the media they rely on.” This was on full display in the run-up to the 2024 Super Bowl.
Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs was pushing vaccines for new COVID “variants” to be conveniently taken with the annual flu shot. According to the CDC, the latest variant, JN.1, was “closely related to the variant BA.2.86 that CDC has been tracking since August,” and JN.1 has “only a single change” in the spike protein with BA.2.86. In other words, the “variants” are basically the same, just given a new number and menacing name.
According to Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt, and someone who regards Fauci as a “genius,” the infectiousness, transmissibility and severity is “about the same” as the Omicron variant. The “new vaccines” are “expected to be effective against the variant,” which is not the same as proven effectiveness. As Americans will recall, the vaccines mandated by Fauci failed to prevent infection and transmission of COVID, which the fully boosted Fauci proved by testing positive.
“If you haven’t been vaccinated—and so many people have not yet,” said Schaffner, “there’s still time to get vaccinated, and while you’re at it, get your flu shot too.” Pushing the COVID comeback in 2025 is Dr. Erica Pan, an appointee of Governor Gavin Newsom and California’s acting state public health officer from Aug. 10, 2020 to Jan. 3, 2021.
Stanford grad Erica Pan earned an MD at Tufts but as with Fauci it’s unclear if she ever practiced medicine or treated a single COVID patient. Pan boasts an MPH, but like Fauci her bio shows no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology Like Fauci she is not a virologist. Her MD and MPH are bureaucratic credentials like Jill Biden’s EdD.
During the pandemic, Pan simply repeated the mandates of the CDC and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which Fauci directed since 1984. The infamous six-foot social distancing rule, Fauci revealed last year, was “arbitrary,” lacked any scientific basis, and “sort of just appeared.” The establishment media accepted the rules with fathomless credulity, and that continues in 2025.As this plays out, another Fauci ally has been making the rounds.
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2009-2021, recently appeared on (the recently canceled) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert claiming that under the Trump administration, he was“completely muzzled.” In reality, the chief muzzler was Collins himself.
Fauci’s lockdown regime drew a challenge from medical scientists of the Great Barrington Declaration, headed by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard and Sunetra Gupta of Oxford. Collins tasked Fauci with a “quick and devastating published takedown” of the Barrington scientists, whom he smeared as “fringe epidemiologists.”
As it happens, the highly qualified Bhattacharya is now director of the NIH and has removed from their posts Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Fauci’s successor as NIAID director, and NIH bioethics chief Christine Grady, Fauci’s wife since 1985. Grady did not reveal that connection in her 1995 book The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, which contends that children and pregnant women are suitable subjects for drug trials.
Grady’s book served as justification for Fauci’s drug trials with foster children in New York City. Those trials are the subject of the 2004 documentary Guinea Pig Kids, and explained at length in The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now heads the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2012, when the NIH gave Grady the bioethics post, the agency made no mention of her marriage to Fauci and the huge conflict of interest that created. As parents might recall, during the pandemic, Fauci recommended COVID vaccines for children under the age of five. The NIH bioethics boss was fine with that and it’s hard to find any objection from Collins or Grady to anything Fauci did or said. That includes Fauci’s claim that he represents science, and that those who criticize him are “attacking” science.
On his last day in office, Joe Biden pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, without indicating any crime he committed. The loathsome Lysenko figure has allegedly retired but state health bureaucrats and their media allies are his fearmongering variants. If they were so wrong on COVID, we may wonder why we should take their advice on anything else.