Psaki Slaps Down Fauci: It’s Still a Pandemic!

CLAY: Our good friend Dr. Fauci… Yesterday, Buck, we played this clip of Dr. Fauci saying in no uncertain terms, the pandemic is over. Listen to this.

CLAY: We’re not in a pandemic. He could not have been any more clear. That is Dr. Fauci to PBS. Jen Psaki was asked about Dr. Fauci’s answer, and she was not pleased. This is Psaki yesterday.

BUCK: It’s never over, if this is the philosophy, right? We know this. There is actually never a time where we will be truly out of the pandemic if, “Well, there are still people who are getting sick.” That is true all of variety of illnesses every single day all across the country, and we’re not gonna be able to cure all of those illnesses either.

Remember, covid mostly goes after people who are over 75 years of age, who are already susceptible to a whole range of other illnesses too. When I say, “goes after,” mostly is a risk to them. Clay, Moderna is pushing for a new emergency vaccine approval. I’m assuming — although I don’t know. I guess is it for Omicron?

Because we know that Omicron just blew through the population, did not get slowed down. That’s why we had all-time record cases in this country, in many countries, after the mass vaccination campaign. They’re pushing through emergency status Moderna vaccination a new one for kids under the age of 6.

I cannot believe it. But I will tell you this: I think that because… I don’t want to overstate the Twitter thing, but I do think the tide is shifting. I think you see it too, right? I think we’re here realizing that there is a swing-back to sanity. I want to say I think we’re helping push it.

CLAY: Part of it, yeah.

BUCK: Yeah, no big deal, but I think we’re part of it. There’s a swing-back toward sanity that’s going on, but we’re not done yet. I mean, Clay, what are the actual risk numbers to a child under 6 of dying from covid — from covid? Because it doesn’t stop their kid giving it. The vaccine does not stop the spread; so that’s off the table. What are the chances? Is it one in a million? Literally, I think it actually is, perhaps even less than one in a million. What are the real chances?

CLAY: The real chances are… I drove my kids to school this morning, Buck. My kids were more likely to die in a traffic accident with me driving them to school this morning. My kids were more likely to drown. My kids are more likely to be struck by lightning. We are talking about awful things that could happen certainly to children. But crazily unlikely.

And the data here, too, even from the CDC: 75% of all kids right now have covid antibodies. That means they’ve had covid and recovered from it. That’s not meaning that they got covid shot. That means that they have had covid and they’ve recovered from it. Probably my kids. Strong probability that it’s your kids out there as you’re listening as well.

They’ve already had it, and so the idea that you’re going to get these shots on an emergency basis for kids younger than 6, to me, Buck, is pure madness. And, by the way, on that Psaki clip, I wanted to play those basically back-to-back so you could see how much she was lying, right? Because credit to whoever asked that question in the White House press corps.

But she accurately said… Fauci said the pandemic’s over. Now, Fauci then flip-flopped and said he wasn’t saying the pandemic was over after he got his knee — or his hand — slapped by the White House here. But how can you trust a guy who one day says there’s a pandemic and the next day says there isn’t?

BUCK: You know, there was the funeral of Madeleine Albright yesterday at the National Cathedral in D.C., which honestly, I only know about because they put it on TV for a few minutes and then I think they realized there’s like a massive war in Europe, we’ve got big problems in the country.

There are other news stories that certainly moved ahead of it very rapidly. I’m not sure that a funeral is a news story particularly or a high-profile one, really. But what was interesting watching the feed for a minute, Clay, is that Biden in the church is masked up.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: He puts the mask on to walk around, goes up to the pew to say a few words, and then puts the mask on again when he walks off. You look at the front row, the Obamas were there. It was Democrat royalty, right? All the biggest Democrats. The Clintons are there. They’re all masked up, and I’m sitting here saying, “They’re all vaccinated.

“The mask mandate has been dropped. You don’t have to do this anymore.” None of them are living their lives as though they need to be masked in indoor settings, except when there are cameras around, except when all of a sudden there’s some moment of personal branding that they can take from this. I guarantee you… You know, it’s funny.

We both — Clay and I both — lived in D.C. How many of the people that were at that funeral yesterday, biggest names the Democrat Party, went to brunch at, like, Cafe Milano afterwards sat there for two hours in a packed restaurant — that place is always packed — no mask on? I’m sure a large percentage of them.

CLAY: Or you went to somebody’s house in Georgetown, and you didn’t have a mask on. And, by the way, Fauci, while Biden and Mayor Pete and a lot of other Democrat elites are going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Fauci’s been twice shot up with the covid shot and gotten two boosters already.

He doesn’t think it’s safe to go to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He really should be pressed on this, Buck. If he doesn’t feel like it’s safe after four shots to go to White House Correspondents’ Dinner, what would have to occur for Fauci to feel safe going back to his normal life?

BUCK: This is a brilliant point because what you see is that the essence of Fauciism is to maintain maximum control at all times over the public under the guise of health when really the only times that you will allow greater freedom and individual liberty are the natural cycles of the virus when they go down for a period of time before they come up.

You are never going to be… Based on Fauci’s logic here, you are never done, free, go back to normal life. It’s always a temporary removal of the restriction because otherwise how do you justify it? He’s saying (impression), “Well, there are still cases and there’s still…”

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Well, so when are we not at cases? Notice he’s always resisted giving, “When can we be done as a number?”

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Because then he’d be stuck with it.

CLAY: And also, why not press him on, “Hey, you’ve gotten four shots and you’re not willing to go to an indoor event? Are you not going to one for the rest of your life? What would you have to see to be comfortable to go to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner?” I’d love to know the answer to that because I don’t know that he can give an answer, Buck, that would reflect that he’s ever going to return for the rest of his life to his normal, precovid existence.