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‘Faucigate’ Emails Don’t Prove a Covid Lab Leak
If the messages show any scandal at all, it's how little scientists knew about the virus.
At least he didn’t use a private server?
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If there’s any scandal revealed by the emails of Anthony Fauci, recently released after a Freedom of Information Act request by journalists, it’s that scientists were wildly clueless at the start of the pandemic. They didn’t know what to do about the pandemic, when and how to deploy masks, or where the pandemic came from.
Both conservative and liberal-leaning pundits have spun the email release to different ends — either revealing that Fauci hid critical information from the world, or that he was a nice guy who worked really hard and still had time to answer his email.