This video is so crazy, I’m still processing it. I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or scream in horror. For now I’m going with laughter mixed with a heaping dose of schadenfreude, because, well, because it feels good to have your beliefs affirmed. For almost almost 3 years I’ve thought Tony Fauci an arrogant, lying, prig who has no idea how real people live and the video shows this in spades. What a creep.
It was shot in June of 2021, a time when Covid vaccine hysteria in this country was ramping up and the narrative that you were a dumb, dirty person for refusing it was being gelled. It shows Tony Fauci and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser going door to door in a poor, black area known as Ward 8, attempting to convince the unwashed to get vaccinated.
It all starts off well enough for Fauci, as he moves through familiar territory, with people fawning over him and laughing about The Fauci Ouchie. Conversations with Mayor Bowser on just what to do about those anti vaxxers are sprinkled about too, just reeking with condescension.
“Sometimes people aren’t opposed…”
“Yeah, I know…”
“But they do need a little push.”
“Yeah, they need a little push.”
“A push and a drag”
“What are we gonna do about those other states?”
“Oh my God, they’re gonna keep the outbreak smoldering.”
“They’re not doing it because they say they don’t want to do it, they’re Republicans, they don’t like to be told what to do.”
Things start to change at about mark, 4:09 where some light pushback occurs and Fauci responds of course by repeatedly lying about getting vaccinated to protect others. Then at mark 4:55 the real fun begins when one gentlemen who knows what’s, what completely blindsides Fauci. The man is so totally on target.
“Then you start talking about paying people to get vaccinated, when you start talking about incentivizing those things to get people vaccinated, there’s something else going on with that. You all attack people with fear.”
Seeing Bowser twist herself in to one large virtue signaling pretzel in response was amusing too. “The only reason I’m talking to you now, as close as we are is that I’ve been vaccinated.” Blah, blah, blah.
It’s hard to believe that these clueless bozos and others like them held such enormous power over our lives, yet were wrong on nearly everything about the pandemic.
Never, ever forget what they did to us. Keep videos like this for when you need a reminder. Or good laugh.
Freedom Through Empowerment 
What an absolute schmuck.
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Totally.
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That is a strange video for PBS to publish. One other thing that is strange is the timing. It was shot in June of 2021. Why did it take so long for it to get out? Any ideas?
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Isn’t it strange for it to come out now? I thought so too Tom, because it really doesn’t show Saint Fauci in a good light. Maybe even PBS knows to distance themselves from him. Regardless, it really brought a whole slew of feelings back to me about what ugly time it was in America then. Not that things have gotten any prettier but at least vaccine mandates seem to be off the table. For now.
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Arrggg, it’s just maddening, isn’t it? To this day my own county is still in a state of emergency, about a third of the people are fully masked, and our officials have not yet stopped their perpetual fear mongering. We had quarantine camps set up, detention centers, although they were never really used. We actually arrested people for not wearing masks. It was bad everywhere, but my county went right off the rails and I will never forget. We had a family dinner back then and everyone not only parked around the corner, we all talked in hushed tones, hoping not to be discovered for having an “unauthorized gathering.”
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It’s so surreal to think about IB, that our country, the world really, went crazy at the flip of a switch. Especially up where you are! That’s nuts about your family gathering, but I can totally understand why you felt the need to do that. Things were so dystopian. I remember driving to my fiancé’s house late at night once, rehearsing what I would say if I got pulled over for being out “after curfew”, which is just insane!
A good chunk of it still lingers, as you say, in blue areas like ours. I’d really like to do an in depth study on why so many lefties got so scared of covid and went full authoritarian. Many won’t admit it to this day, but it’s true.
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Install OBS Studio. It’s free and it can record videos and the audio that play on your computer. That’s what I use to save videos like these, so they don’t end up getting deleted and I have a record of them on an external harddrive. 🙂
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Ooh, good idea, irfty, thanks!
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