Fri Sep 23, 2022 – 12:56 pm EDT
(WND News Center) — After repeatedly downplaying the impact on children of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Dr. Anthony Fauci justified the apparent mitigation measures at an event Wednesday while acknowledging they were “draconian.”
“Sometimes when you do draconian things, it has collateral negative consequences. Just like when you shut things down, even temporarily, it does have deleterious consequences on the economy, on the school children, you know that,” Fauci said at the event, hosted by The Atlantic magazine.
FAUCI: “You have to do something that’s rather draconian, and sometimes when you do draconian things, it has collateral negative consequences.” pic.twitter.com/fEGAbM588a
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In August, Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief health adviser, dismissed concerns about the impact of the lockdowns and school closures on children in an interview on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto.
“In retrospect doctor, do you regret that it went too far?” Cavuto asked regarding the lockdowns. “Particularly for kids who couldn’t go to school except remotely, that it’s forever damaged them?”
“Well, I don’t think it’s forever irreparably damaged anyone,” Fauci replied.
He charged that “people selectively… pull things
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