Anthony Fauci's private diary and emails show he knew lockdowns failed

Lockdowns led to governments printing money to allow people to stay home, setting off a spiral of runaway inflation that is still not under control.

And masks permanently damaged millions of people, from schoolchildren forced to wear them, to hospital workers who are now indefinitely required to mask in healthcare settings unnecessarily, or for those who continue to mask out of irrational fear and effective propaganda.

Many of these policies can be traced directly back to Anthony Fauci. And now we have proof of just how inept and incompetent his recommendations were, and how dishonest he was, as it became clear he'd failed.

Here's one example. In an email to Deborah Birx, another key architect of our failed response, Fauci unwittingly admitted that he was aware lockdowns and closures did not impact the spread of Covid.

"I have been obsessing about the increases in cases that do not seem to be related to openings or closings or massive crowds," he wrote. "I believe that ultimately we will see increases related to all of the above; however, right now we may be looking for the lost keys under the light of the lamppost. There is something inherent here that we are missing and that is insidiously keeping the outbreak alive in the USA, and that is more concerning than anticipated spikes associated with identifiable events."

Surely, this email was written in 2021 or 2022, right? After closures and lockdowns became less common?

Nope. June 18, 2020. That's just a few months after the initial shutdowns. He knew in June 2020 that closures did not lead to decrease in cases, and for quite literally years afterward, he demanded closures and shutdowns continue.

He criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for reopening his state, months later. In September, for example, he said Florida was "asking for trouble" by opening. Three months after he was fully aware, and admitted privately, that closures had no impact on the spread of the virus. Indefensible.

What about masks? Here's another email from April 15, 2020, less than two weeks after the CDC abandoned science and recommended public masking out of panic.

Apparently the White House, or then-Vice President Mike Pence did not fully support masks, and Fauci and Birx once again got involved.

"We should push back a bit on the masks. I think that it is important. Since when do comms people dictate public health suggestions? Walk out of the streets and people are wearing them anyway," Fauci wrote. "We should be on board with them. I would be happy to do that tomorrow. We are meeting with the VP tomorrow morning. Can you arrange for you and I to meet with the relevant person so I can give it a pitch?"

No new evidence. No studies to reference. No peer-review. No data. Just, "people are wearing them anyway" and "we should be on board" with the CDC. That's how Fauci decided to push one of the most important and harmful "interventions" of the pandemic. Because everyone else was doing it too.