Anthony Fauci spent nearly four decades running the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In that time, he became the face of public health in America.
Yet the record now shows he inflicted lasting harm on the very people he claimed to serve, especially the young. His private writings and public actions reveal a pattern of deception that paved the way for lockdowns, school closures, and social isolation whose scars will stretch across generations.
In late July, Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's personal diary. These ranged from December 2019 through December 2022. Those entries strip away an image which had been polished for the public year after year. On Jan. 26, 2020, Fauci noted that the first COVID-19 infection appeared early in December and had no link to the Wuhan market. He called the market an amplifier, not the source.
Days later, on Feb. 1, he recorded a conference call with a dozen scientists. Most of them saw laboratory engineering of COVID as a real possibility. Only two favored a purely natural origin.
Fauci never shared that private judgment with the public. Instead, he steered grant money toward the Wuhan Institute of Virology and helped shape a paper that dismissed the lab-leak idea. He then promoted that publication at press conferences without revealing his own involvement. Or the later multimillion-dollar grant he approved for one of its authors.
The gap between what he knew and what he said cleared the path for economy-wrecking shutdowns, hysterical public shaming, and months of shuttered classrooms. All that ripped apart families and mauled the economy.
Worse still, the diary shows Fauci actively pushed the very lockdowns he later denied association with. On March 15, 2020 — which he labeled "BIG DAY!" in red ink — he wrote that he convinced Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to close municipal schools. He noted that de Blasio had already leaned that way from Fauci's television appearances.
The same entry records him urging de Blasio to shutter bars and restaurants. He influenced California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat surely running for president in 2028, to embrace locking down. Five days later, Fauci pressed for a full shelter-in-place order in New York. This came despite resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, another Democrat.
Fauci later claimed credit for extending the original "15 days to slow the spread" into 30 days, warning that stopping early would be a disaster. In November, he backed a three-week shutdown in Los Angeles County.
The damage is already measurable and will compound for decades.
A 2023 peer-reviewed study of German secondary students found that those tested after six months of pandemic disruption scored substantially lower on intelligence tests, relative to comparable groups from 2002 and 2012. When the same students were retested a year later, amid continued irregular schooling, they showed no recovery.
The researchers tied this shortfall to lost classroom time, not stress alone, and warned of lasting effects on cognitive growth.
In the United States, a 2021 survey of nearly a thousand parents linked COVID-driven school closures, remote learning, and canceled activities to clear drops in children's social skills. Kids spent most of their days isolated at home watching screens instead of playing outdoors or joining group sports. Reductions in time with friends and extracurricular activities tracked directly with worse social outcomes.
Researchers at the Urban Institute projected long-term consequences from actual COVID-era learning loss and socio-emotional disruptions. Eighth-graders in the 2021-22 school year could earn three percent less at age 30 than they would have without academic centers shutting down. High-school graduation rates and college degrees are expected to fall as well, with steeper hits for students from low-income and minority households.
A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report detailed the pandemic's physical and mental tolls. These include rising diabetes rates in children, higher maternal deaths (especially among black and Hispanic women), spikes in adolescent overdose deaths (driven by fentanyl), as well as delayed vaccinations and check-ups that hit minority children hardest. Loss of a parent or other caregiver were several times higher for Native American, black, and Hispanic children than for white children.
These are not abstract statistics. They describe real American kids whose futures were narrowed by policies Fauci championed. The harm is multi-generational. Lost learning years translate into probable lower earnings, poorer psycho-emotional regulation, diminished self-control, intellectual crippling, and higher rates of illness that will shape America for decades. The scale is beyond calculation.
Fauci's response to accountability has been as revealing as the harm itself.
In 2022, he told CNN he was happy to testify before any congressional committee. He said he had nothing to hide and that everything he did could be explained. On July 29, 2026, under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. Fauci refused nearly every question about origins, gain-of-function research, and the policies he supported.
Fauci accused Chairman Paul of obsession and claimed the hearing existed only as a humiliation ritual. Democrats on the panel rushed to his defense. They praised his 50 years of federal employment, called the session a political trap, and attacked the Donald J. Trump administration instead of asking hard questions.
One senator said the hearing was designed to ensnare a man who put Americans' health first. Another warned that scrutinizing Fauci would chill future public servants. Unsurprisingly, neither came close to holding Fauci accountable.
This is the same Democratic Party that once deified Fauci, treating his critics as heretical to the sacred cause of public health.
In May 2020, Kamala Harris, then a senator from California, thanked God for Fauci on national television and cast him as a truth-teller who put people above politics. Countless other influential blue politicians, alongside lefty pundits and progressive physicians, essentially rendered Fauci above reproach. Meanwhile, they castigated Americans who dared question the shutdowns.
Democrats still shield Fauci today. Their defense proves they have learned nothing from his wreckage.
Such bold refusal to confront catastrophic failure, which hit children hardest and will ravage America for generations to come, should galvanize every Republican voter. Of course, Democratic ones should be riled as well, but they are transparently beyond rational hope. The midterm elections this autumn offer a clear chance to reject the mindset that produced Fauci's policies and still protects their architect.
The blue party regaining control over one or both houses of Congress would invite a return to this cancerous blight. The evidence is plain. The cost to America's youth is already written in lower test scores, diminishing intelligence, worsening social skills, reduced likely future income, and damaged personal health. Among other things.
Fauci's life work does not amount to bettering humanity. It winds up being multi-generational injury inflicted on the very public he purportedly devoted his career to.
Indeed, Anthony Fauci's deceptions and the lockdowns he championed stole childhoods, dimmed futures, and carved scars into a youth that can never fully heal. Democrats continue lionizing him, proving their unfitness for governance. The only proper response is for Republican voters to turn out massively for the midterms.
Pandemic-era calamities cannot be avenged, but locking Faucism's cheerleaders from power does put America first.
Dr. Joseph Ford Cotto is the creator, host, and producer of News Sight, delivering sharp insights on the key events that shape our lives. He publishes Dr. Cotto's Digest, sharing how business and the economy really impact us all. During the 2024 presidential race, he developed the Five-Point Forecast, which accurately predicted Donald Trump's national victory and correctly called every swing state. Cotto holds a doctorate in business administration and is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Black Belt.
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