A journal article co-authored by Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020 has recently resurfaced is proving to be more revealing as any of his many public statements.
The article by Anthony Fauci and David M. Morens published in Cell explains much of his mask hypocrisy and his insistence that everyone get “vaccinated” regardless of natural immunity or health risk (never mind that the shots don’t stop the spread).
“Unimagined just a few short months ago, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has upended our entire planet, quickly challenging past assumptions and future certainties,” the lengthy article begins.
After discussing vaccines, Fauci said quite plainly: “We are still vulnerable and our public health infrastructure has improved greatly, but without a universal vaccine a single virus would result in a world catastrophe.”
The article goes on to state the following (emphasis ours):
“It possesses simultaneously three characteristics that have allowed it to render an historic assault on the human species, triggering a virtual global ‘lockdown’ as the only weapon against uncontrolled spread,” Fauci also claimed in the article.
“It combines the characteristics of being a virus that to our knowledge has never before infected humans in a sustained manner, together with its extraordinary efficiency in transmitting from person to person and its relatively high level of morbidity and mortality, especially among seniors and those with underlying co-morbidities,” he continued. “It indeed is the perfect storm of an emerging infectious disease.”
Critically, after a historical lesson on viral pandemics throughout history, Fauci and Morens get to the heart of the matter: In order to fight viral spread, it is necessary to alter human behavior.
“The 1889 influenza pandemic traveled westward from Asia to Europe along railroad lines and then was exported globally along shipping routes,’ the article notes. “The 1957 influenza pandemic was spread by ships, but 11 years later the 1968 influenza pandemic was spread along air routes, the first example of global pandemic spread by airplanes. In 1981, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis was spread between international air hubs in the tropics and some temperate zones (e.g., to Florida and North Carolina). In 2002–2003, SARS was exported by air from Hong Kong to the Western Hemisphere and Europe.”
“In 2019–2020, SARS-CoV-2 was spread globally from China in a similar manner,” the article adds. “These many ancient and modern examples reflect the extraordinary importance of human population growth and movement in spreading diseases: the more populous and crowded we as a species become, and the more we travel, the more we provide opportunities for emerging diseases.”
The crux of article (emphasis ours):
“Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues. In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks for the emergence of infectious diseases. Chief among them are reducing crowding at home, work, and in public places as well as minimizing environmental perturbations such as deforestation, intense urbanization, and intensive animal farming.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic is yet another reminder, added to the rapidly growing archive of historical reminders, that in a human-dominated world, in which our human activities represent aggressive, damaging, and unbalanced interactions with nature, we will increasingly provoke new disease emergences. We remain at risk for the foreseeable future. COVID-19 is among the most vivid wake-up calls in over a century. It should force us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature, even as we plan for nature’s inevitable, and always unexpected, surprises.”
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