Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) head Francis Collins admitted that lockdowns and other public health mandates were “mistakes.”
“If you’re a public health person, and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life,” he said.
“Doesn’t matter what else happens. You attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never might quite recover from. Collateral damage. This is a public health mindset.”
Collins acknowledged that the described “narrow view” was “unfortunate.”
“And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset – and that was really unfortunate,” he said. “It’s another mistake we made.”
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Former White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Anthony Fauci admitted that mask mandates were about preserving “authority.”
“One of the issues, Neil, that I have articulated in the past and I will in the future – it’s less about mandates on the plane than it is about who has the right and the authority and the capability of making public health decisions,” Fauci told Fox News in 2022. “I believe that the Department of Justice is operating on the principle that decisions that are public health decisions belong with the public health agency, in this case, the CDC.”
“I believe that the Department of Justice is operating on the principle that decisions that are public health decisions belong with the public health agency, in this case, the CDC,” he added. “So it’s more of a matter of principle of where the authority lies than it is about whether or not there’s gonna be a mandate on a plane or not.”
