Fauci Undermined Trump, Misled Americans; ‘I Was Stunned at What I Saw,’ - Dr. Scott Atlas
Dr. Scott Atlas had a Covid policy box seat as a member of President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force. Now, after being silenced on social media he’s telling his story in a new book, “A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America.”
Prior to joining the Trump’s Task Force Doctor Atlas was an American radiologist, political commentator, and health care policy advisor. He was the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.
During the United States presidential campaigns of 2008, 2012, and 2016, Atlas was a Senior Advisor for Health Care to several candidates. From 1998 to 2012 he was a professor and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center.
“The American people need to know the level of incompetence, the lack of rigor, the lack of critical thinking. I was stunned at what I saw,” Atlas says of his time at the White House. “We had bureaucrats in charge of the policy and that policy was the restrictions and lockdowns. And it failed.”
Atlas blames Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator; Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Robert Redfield, now former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Atlas says, “Everyone is aware that science itself has become contaminated with politics, has become really distorted from the actual scientific process itself. That the process of science and finding scientific truths depends upon the free exchange of ideas.”
As soon as Atlas arrived at the White House he came under personal attack not because of his data but because he came to serve the President, and the President’s haters targeted Atlas. “I was stunned at it. I was naive to the politics. And the reason I know it was political, first of all, they never criticized or refuted any of the data. They just simply accused me in a distorted way of saying these preposterous things.”
The data, Martin Kulldorff (Harvard Epidemiologist), Jay Battacharya (Stanford Professor Medicine), John Ioannidis (Stanford Epidemiologist) and Atlas all explained the minimal risks to children, cautioned not to close schools, that lockdowns / masks and social distancing are useless, counterproductive and harmful. Redfield, Birx and Fauci would sit silently with no back-up data, and with their minds made up.
“We had bureaucrats in charge of the policy and that policy was the restrictions in lockdown. And it failed. It failed by the data to stop the spread of the infection. It failed to protect the elderly and stop them from dying. And it destroyed millions and millions of families, including the children who were sacrificed, and I’m talking about particularly low income families.”
“This was an egregious immoral application of public health, because when you’re a public health leader, you are not supposed to say I’m going to stop this one infection at all costs, without regard for all of public health.”
“But it also inflicted massive harm because you have to remember, we shut down a lot of medical care. It wasn’t just cosmetic surgery or something like that, that was shut down. We had 650,000 people with cancer on chemotherapy. Half of them skipped their chemo just during the spring of 2020 out of fear. We had 85% of living organ transplants did not get done compared to the previous year. We had two thirds of cancer screenings did not get done. These people still have cancer.”
“They’re going to come back with widespread, what’s called metastatic disease. A lot of them are going to die. We had massive increases in drug abuse, in spousal abuse, in child abuse. 300,000 cases of child abuse were not detected during the spring of 2020, because, why, schools were closed and schools are the number one agency recognizing when child abuse occurs. So this was a massive harm and the harm, again, all the losses, we are almost on the verge of destroying a younger generation, by the way, we have a massive rise in anxiety disorder, in depressive disorder.”
“One out of four college students in 2020 in the United States thought of killing himself. We had tripling of medical visits to doctors by teenagers for self-harm in the United States compared to the previous year. What does that mean? That means these are kids putting out cigarettes on their skin, slashing their wrists out of the isolation. It’s the lockdowns that did this. It’s the isolation. It’s not the virus. The isolation was caused by the grossly wrong public health advice. And this is going to take decades to solve.”
(Lou Binninger can be heard on No Hostages Radio podcast, live on KMYC 1410AM 10-1 Saturdays, read at Live with Lou on Facebook and at Nohostagesradio.com)
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