Fauci Hits Back at Elon Musk's Prosecution Call: 'Off the Deep End'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Newsweek

Dr. Anthony Fauci responded to Elon Musk's tweet calling for the government to prosecute the now-retired health official over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a nearly four-decade span that included the COVID-19 pandemic, has come under scrutiny from critics, including Twitter CEO Musk and several high-profile Republicans over his handling of the virus, which killed more than one million Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Critics have taken issue with Fauci's approach to the pandemic, slamming his support for partial shutdowns implemented to prevent the virus' spread but have been attributed to economic woes. Others have raised concerns his stance on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, which remain disputed, and his support for the vaccination, which has been proven to be effective at preventing serious illness.

Fauci's supporters, on the other hand, say he successfully navigated the United States through the deadly pandemic, praising his support for vaccines as saving lives and preventing the pandemic from worsening.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fauci-hits-back-at-elon-musk-s-prosecution-call-off-the-deep-end/ar-AA18vQ3h

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Musk has joined the tin-foil hat crowd.

He can go back to South Africa as far as I'm concerned. I'm sick and tired of wealthy foreigners like Musk, Rupert Murdoch and Peter Thiel who come to this country and try to fuck over the commoners.

[Lovie777]

1. Musk is insane....................

[AllaN01Bear]

5. almost all of them are insane.

[housecat]

40. I think that about covers it.

[dchill]

22. Cancer of the Narcissial gland.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

52. What I cannot understand is WHY the news media

thinks we need to be breathlessly informed of his every brain fart.

He's a hidious creature, inside and out. And his entire bio is a lie. Another fevered ego that needs to shuffle off this mortal coil.

[ificandream]

2. Cruz, Musk, MTG and the rest of them can go jump in a lake.

Remember that while Fauci was proposing masking and vaccines, the Republican idiots were doing their best to stop them. In other words, prevent what was saving lives. And now they're blaming him? If anyone should be prosecuted, it's these Republican jackasses.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Don't forget Kari Lake. Lake can jump in a lake, too. n/t

[COL Mustard]

14. Why do you want to pollute our waterways like that?

They would clearly foul any body of water they came into contact with.....yuk....

[cab67]

15. Which lake?

Lake Baikal? Maybe.

But not any of our lakes.

[sakabatou]

20. Boiling Lake, Dominica?

[dchill]

23. The Sea of Serenity.

Mare Serenitatus. It's on the Moon.

[brush]

3. Your last sentence expresses my opinion exactly.

Muck can go back to South Africa if he doesn't like it here. I'm tired of these rich jerk offs throwing their weight around in the nation's politics just because they have a lot of money.

Musk, and Murdoch especially with how FOX has polarized the country with it's lies, should've been deported yesterday.

[The Wizard]

51. Yes

He can swim back to South Africa

[Rebl2]

4. I think musk has always been part

of tin-foil group.
I think Fauci did the right thing since we didn’t know that much about Covid-19 at the time and how easily it would spread. Ultimately it was tfg that shut things down in the beginning with Fauci recommendations I am sure.

[Marthe48]

6. As long as our culture is skewed, we're screwed

We've gone from keeping up with the Jones, to watching the Jones buy up the neighborhood, to worshipping the Jones because they're filthy rich.

As long as people look up to wealthy people instead of worthy people, the media is going to breathlessly report every word they utter and people watching are going to hang on every nuance, even if it makes no sense, has no goodness, does not add insight to our knowledge.

[truthisfreedom]

7. I wonder what happened to Elon?

His brain seems defective now. Stress?

[cab67]

16. He was exposed.

By all accounts, he's never really been the clever tech mogul he tries to emulate. His purchase of Twitter shed light on a lack of good sense he'd managed to keep hidden.

[Iggo]

26. He called when he should have folded.

Hey, it wasn’t my billion.

[Roy Rolling]

27. Called?

He effin’ raised with the purchase of Twitter.

He tried to bluff at dictating “transparency” to the masses by offering to buy it at $44 billion. Twitter called his bluff and forced him to pay up and buy the company.

Then, like the idiot we all now know he is, Musk went all-in by throwing his [fake] reputation in the pot and whining on the platform like a child. Advertisers pulled their support.

Twitter users called his bluff again but Musk has no more cards—it was all empty promises to begin with. Musk investors were too dumb to realize that, but Twitter users and advertisers knew Musk as soon as he opened his mouth.

Bye Felicia.

[Iggo]

35. Yeah, but he had the chance to pull out and only lose his billion dollar ante.

The his ego fucked him.

[cilla4progress]

32. Inherited wealth, isn't it?

Like tuckems and the orange menace?

[orthoclad]

45. From apartheid

South African mines. How many died in his family's mines? His contempt for his labor force was obvious when he tried to kill them with covid by defying public health orders and forcing them to work in his sweatshops. He obviously wishes for "hardcore" slave labor.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Dr. Fauci is a national treasure.

[area51]

13. +1 n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

18. Yes he is

It was Trump and the F***ing Republicans in the Senate and House, who couldn't pass a Jr. High School biology class, crushed what needed to be done from the get go...........The Republicans intentionally mislead the public on just how bad it was until they and all their uber rich friends and donors could re-arrange their investments to make money rather than lose it........

Scum of the earth, all of them, and now they want to tell people it was Fauci.............Fuck them, one and all............

[mahina]

30. I was just thinking if him yesterday, missing his steady hand.

At the tiller.

People who advocate for taking down the good folks who are helping us… they are not on team America. Who benefits from chewing up somebody who served in crisis times for his whole adult life? Not America. This activity is intended, I think, to make others question the wisdom of devoting ones’s life to public service. That’s the point- not the point of the howler monkeys ( apologies to real howler monkeys) but the point if the evil ones at the headwaters of Bullshit River who toss in the poisonous ideas. Strained analogy but you get me.

Have you ever heard Michael Lewis‘s podcast or his book the fifth risk? It’s very fine. A love song to the public servant. Worth listening.

You’ll recognize his name as author of Moneyball, The Big Short and many great books. He’s a treasure.

[jmowreader]

10. I have a better idea

Let’s prosecute Elon Musk for making his reboot of the movie “Christine” on the public highways. Y’know, MOST people would stop selling cars that automatically run people over after they’d run over just one or two.

[orthoclad]

44. Scientists run a gauntlet when

from an ethics panel they use human subjects in experiments, even just administering questionnaires, but oligarchs can use the public roads to kill unconsenting members of the public to "train" their AI-ish pets.

Fuck capitalism.

[Blue Owl]

11. Fuck Musk

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. Add Mark Burnette to that list. . .the jerk that produced "The Apprentice."

[William Seger]

17. One of the main reasons "reality TV" should always be in quotes (nt)

[cilla4progress]

33. And

The Voice.

No longer watch. Plus it's boring and hackneyed.

[yaesu]

19. The US is the world's diaper when in comes to foreign rich rw turds. nr

[oasis]

21. Prosecute Musk for turning out a slew of defective autos.

[Hiawatha Pete]

36. +1000 n/t

[samsingh]

24. musk is a terrifying disgusting tyrant

[GenThePerservering]

25. Eloon has been exposed as a grifting fool

he's got nothing to lose now but still has a huge ego to feed - he's grabbing at anything that he thinks will do it.

[heckles65]

28. Can we talk about these "lockdowns" for a second?

I don't know what other people's experience with lockdowns have been. I understand that in China and other places they were taken very seriously. In Vermont, where I live, the "lockdown" was effectively the state government saying, "Think twice before you go out" for about six weeks. That's it. Nobody was patrolling the streets, nobody was stopping cars. And it was effective: we had less than half the national death rate.

[PatSeg]

29. Yes, the word "lockdown" is rather misleading

For some communities there were a few restrictions, but as you said, a lot of people were merely advised to be cautious.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. Good Point

Geez, there wasn't even a penalty for refusing to wear a mask.
Around here, the only enforcement was by the mlock down. And, they were open every day. There were no restrictions on when one could shop, just had to follow the rules of the owners of the private properties.
There was never a lockdown. Nothing even resembling one.

[cilla4progress]

31. To me it's as simple as

"we erred on the side of caution" with a NOVEL virus and millions of deaths worldwide and in US.

[orthoclad]

39. Highest death rate in the world

In the richest country in the world. Because "Freedom!"

Children throwing deadly tantrums. Three times as many dead as in all of WWII.

[orangecrush]

43. Exactly

[Evolve Dammit]

37. I would NEVER buy a fucking Tesla now. A year ago, maybe, before we knew who he was.

[orthoclad]

42. I despised him when

He burned a huge mass of kerosene so we could see a picture of his mannequin-self dominating the world from behind the wheel of his car. His Bond Villain moment.
He could have done something useful, even just lofting some cubesats for student scientists, but no, it was all about his ego and lust for power.

I resent him hijacking Nikola's name.

[Evolve Dammit]

46. didn't know that. You just added fuel to my fire!

[orthoclad]

47. He posted a picture

of a mannequin at the wheel of his personal car that he boosted into solar orbit looking down at the world. I read that you could heat a whole town in Vermont for a winter with the fossil fuel he burned for that stunt.

[Evolve Dammit]

48. dammit. What a megalomaniac.

[orthoclad]

38. He won't go back to South Africa

Despite being an "illegal alien".

Apartheid is over.
"Those people" run the country now, not his family.

The US: refuge for the worst (rich and tyrannical) people in the world. A real melting pot.

[ZonkerHarris]

41. Elon is a crazy bitch.

[The Wizard]

49. Fauci played it by the research and available

data. He was instrumental in ending the pandemic. Repubics politicize their own ignorance . When you're protecting a failed coup d'etat .....

[ChazII]

50. +1 n/t

[Xandric]

53. Musk misses the years of apartheid Africa

He's a racist ratfucker.