Dr. Fauci's Brooklyn Bromides
The big reveal on a global immunological prank
Flu vaccines have never worked very well. We know that, unlike measles or mumps, respiratory viruses such as flu, RSV, and, now, SARS2 are not easily vaccinated against with bodily (or systemic) inoculations which do not target the mucosa of the nose, mouth, lungs, and gut.
Even a vaccine which did target the mucosa, however, would not be guaranteed to work. We’ve been trying without much success for 60 years, and we’re going to be trying a lot longer. Coronaviruses are especially evasive, which we knew before SARS2, and know even more clearly today.
So says Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently retired chief of the infectious disease division of the National Institutes of Health, in a new 6,000-word article in the Cell journal Host and Microbe.
The experts have known it all along, Fauci writes.
In hundreds of TV appearances over the last couple years, however, he told the world a far different story. Fauci and endless battalions of doctors, politicians, and journalists – following his direction – declared with unrelenting certainty over the last two-and-a-half years that mass, mandatory vaccination with novel technologies would block infection and lead to herd immunity, ending the coronavirus pandemic.
They ramped up the pressure to unprecedented levels.
“For the unvaccinated,” the U.S. government announced in late 2021, “we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm.
”But there’s good news: If you’re vaccinated and you had your booster shot, you’re protected from severe illness and death — period.”
Fauci doubted it would work, he now writes, though it’s impossible he foresaw the depth and breadth of unintended consequences.
Over the last two years, the most vaccinated nations on earth have suffered the most Covid infections and deaths – and worse, the highest rates of all-cause mortality.
Now retired, Fauci is echoing the immunological realities and mysteries that a handful of brave scientists tried to warn us about.
In the spring of 2021, mRNA pioneer Dr. Robert Malone told us. So did vaccinologist Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche and evolutionary biologist Dr. Bret Weinstein. Yet when they said nearly two years ago what Dr. Fauci is admitting today – that immunology is mind-bogglingly complex, layered with endless uncertainties – the Washington Post, New York Times, and Atlantic smeared them. YouTube demonetized them. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn erased them.
During those two years, vaccines did not end the pandemic. But mandates did tear apart societies.
I was alerted to Dr. Fauci’s big reveal by law professor Todd Zywicki. Professor Zywicki, like me, is no biologist. But we dug deep to understand the basics of immunology. Zywicki fought the mandate at George Mason University and won. He also wrote about mucosal versus systemic immunity and a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin (OAS), or immune imprinting, which has, paradoxically, left the vaccinated more vulnerable than the unvaccinated.
If he and I could grasp the fundamentals, so could the rest of the world. Thousands of Canadian truckers proved so. Yet medical professors and public health authorities thought otherwise. Only a sleeve of noble lies would do.
Now, Dr. Fauci is admitting:
“As pointed out decades ago, and still true today, the rates of effectiveness of our best approved influenza vaccines would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine-preventable diseases.”
Even worse:
“Until the emergence of COVID-19, influenza had for many decades been the deadliest vaccine-preventable viral respiratory disease, one for which only less than suboptimal vaccines are available.”1
Less than suboptimal can be interpreted as poor. The flu, sadly, kills nearly as many people as it did several decades ago. And now we face similar challenges with Covid-19 vaccines. Fauci writes that
“as variant SARS-CoV-2 strains have emerged, deficiencies in these vaccines reminiscent of influenza vaccines have become apparent.”
In addition to the challenge of chasing – some would say, exacerbating – mutations, Fauci details a long list of other problems with the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines: the failure to block transmission, the development of “tolerance,” and the tricky mucosal/systemic divide, among others.
“The immunologic ‘Faustian bargain’ between tolerance versus infection control, which permits transient, moderated infection by respiratory agents of low or intermediate pathogenicity to restrain the destructive forces of an immune elimination response, may be problematic for vaccine control of respiratory viruses, not only in the local and systemic sensing of vaccine antigens but also in eliciting optimal immune responses.”
Fauci also emphasizes the role of innate immunity and our ability to “train” it.
“the recently appreciated phenomenon of ‘trained innate immunity’ may offer promise that future vaccines might someday be able to boost innate immune responses either to specific pathogens or non-specifically. However, a key unanswered question remains how to control these responses to avoid harmful inflammatory consequences.”
Throughout the pandemic, however, public health authorities suddenly forgot, and even denied, that recovered immunity was an important factor, as we’ve known for hundreds of years. They also failed to address the emerging field of “innate” immunity, which Vanden Bossche emphasized.
One of the biggest problems across the range of Covid-19 policies was one-size-fits-all-ism, which failed to account for highly differentiated risk and benefit factors. Now, Fauci admits this also applies to vaccines, which we pushed and even mandated on everyone, regardless of circumstance.
“It is inevitable that various human risk groups may require different vaccines or vaccine formulations.”
Suddenly, these deep scientific mysteries and difficult trade-offs are back on the table. After raising dozens of intricate uncertainties about the human immune system and possible new approaches, Fauci humbly writes that
“These provocative questions should all be considered as we work to optimize vaccination strategies.”
We raised many of these questions and challenges in our November 2021 report:
Yet during Covid-19, no such questions were allowed in major media or Big Tech platforms. Fauci and the medical-media complex thus denied the world this crucial knowledge.
Fauci and his NIH colleagues conclude by conceding failure.
“Past unsuccessful attempts to elicit solid protection against mucosal respiratory viruses and to control the deadly outbreaks and pandemics they cause have been a scientific and public health failure that must be urgently addressed. We are excited and invigorated that many investigators and collaborative groups are rethinking, from the ground up, all of our past assumptions and approaches to preventing important respiratory viral diseases and working to find bold new paths forward.”
Having reeled people in with his Brooklyn bromides, Dr. Fauci is now throwing public health, politicians, journalists, and tens of thousands of doctors under the bus.
Maybe, having learned the hard way, our credulous medical and public institutions will ask tougher questions next time.
Mastering complex worlds, whether across societies or within our bodies, requires open scientific discovery and open public debate.
In the quotes, the emphasized text is mine, not Fauci’s.