(LifeSiteNews) Outgoing White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci privately mocked Americans for following his own public advice about face coverings, according to a new book by former Trump White House officials Brian and Teresa Morgenstern.
Morgenstern served as deputy press secretary, deputy communications director, and deputy assistant Department of the Treasury secretary for former President Donald Trump. Teresa, whom he met in the administration, served as a senior communications adviser for Operation Warp Speed and deputy press secretary for the Pentagon. Together, they have written Vignettes & Vino, a collection of stories about their experiences serving the 45th President of the United States.
“[I]n January 2020, [Fauci] said the virus was nothing to worry about for the American people,” the book recounts. “Then in the months that followed, he said that people should not wear masks and that they were ineffective. By June or July, he had changed his tune and said everyone should be very concerned and that they should wear multiple masks and goggles.”
“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 that he could get people to believe anything,” wrotes Brian, who continues that Fauci “went on to laugh about how ‘ass-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.”
The federal government recommended wearing face coverings in the presence of others, advice that many states and localities used to impose mask mandates on a wide range of public gatherings. But evidence has long since shown that masking was largely ineffective at limiting the spread of COVID.
Among that evidence is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC’s) September 2020 admission that masks cannot be counted on to keep out COVID when spending 15 minutes or longer within six feet of someone, and a May 2020 studypublished by CDC’s peer-reviewed journal Emerging Infectious Diseases that “did not find evidence that surgical-type face masks are effective in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza transmission, either when worn by infected persons (source control) or by persons in the general community to reduce their susceptibility.”
Forced masking is particularly harmful for children, according to the data.
