(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . MTG let's all her MAGA crazy out for a stroll all at once [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-06 We already know that MAGAs are not like the rest of us. They seem to have a really specific and demonstrably debilitating personality disorder. They’re addicted to believing and regurgitating delusional bullshit. The most simple facts are irrelevant to them. They are impervious to reality. They live in a made-up fantasmagorical world of deep, dark, conspiracy and evil actions happening behind the scenes by despicable people. Somehow, magically, the 2020 was mysteriously “stolen” without leaving a trace. They can’t find a single fake ballot. They couldn’t win more than a single election case with 62 tries. They can’t win a single recount. They can’t win a single audit, with Cyber Ninja’s finding more vote for Biden than they had originally. Fox News paid $757 Million in defamation to Dominion. Rudy Giuliani has to pay $148 Million to the two election workers he claimed had the “ballot suitcases.” The person delivering ballots shown in “2000 Mules” has sued that film for wrongly accusing him of “election fraud” now the Publisher of that bogus film has pulled it from release and apologized to that voter. Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis have all been convicted of election fraud. Fox, Guiliani, Powell, Ellis, D’Souza and Chesebro were the main people pushing this idea — and they’ve all been debunked and discredit. And yet, the idea persists. And now we have MTG going bonkers with Dr. Fauci over her — and many others — Deranged COVID-19 conspiracies. Reposted from Dark Skies on the Horizon So this was just a hum-dinger. If this woman wasn’t a sitting member of Congress, she’d be followed around by guys with big nets and placed on an involuntary hold for observation. I’m telling ya. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci during the Republican House’s hearing on the coronavirus pandemic Monday, refused to call him “Dr.,” and promoted lies and conspiracy theories forcing Democrats to denounce her remarks as “crazy and irresponsible,” and demand they be stricken from the record. Dr. Fauci was the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, from 1984 until the end of 2022. In both the Trump and Biden administrations he became the public face of the battle against the pandemic. But he also became the target of the right and the far-right during COVID, with Congresswoman Greene frequently leading the charge against what she labeled Monday as “your so-called science.” The Georgia Congresswoman “screamed and raged at Fauci at a hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,” The Independent reported. “Republicans have sought to prove that Fauci tried to suppress information about the origins of Covid-19 and claim he funded research that triggered pandemic that killed millions of people.” “We should be recommending you to be prosecuted,” Greene also said during the hearing. “We should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. You belong in prison.” Apologizing to Dr. Fauci, U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-FL) blasted Congresswoman Greene, declaring her remarks “completely irresponsible” while saying, “this might be the most insane hearing I’ve actually attended.” “Your ‘so-called science’ that the gentlewoman is referring to has saved millions of lives in this country and around the world. And I want to thank you for that.” He called Fauci “an American hero,” whose “team has done more to save lives than all 435 members of this body on both sides of the aisle.” “You guys have worked not just during this pandemic, but over time to save millions of lives in this country and across the world. We lost 1.1 million American lives, 1.1 million American lives, 7 million lives around the world,” Garcia said. “We were having 9-11-like-events death events daily in this country losing 4000 to 5000 people every single day. I was mayor during the time of the pandemic. I remember how painful it was to close businesses, to shut down schools.” x x YouTube Video So during her tirade Marjorie attacked Fauci for coming up with “6 feet distancing and masks protocol” when in reality, that was the CDC who published those guidelines. The NIH and Fauci had next to nothing to do with that. In addition, there are other prevention strategies that you can choose to further protect yourself and others. Wearing a mask and putting distance between yourself and others can help lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Testing for COVID-19 can help you decide what to do next, like getting treatment to reduce your risk of severe illness and taking steps to lower your chances of spreading COVID-19 to others. This is what the CDC says about Masks. Wearing a mask can help lower the risk of respiratory virus transmission. When worn by a person with an infection, masks reduce the spread of the virus to others. Masks can also protect wearers from breathing in infectious particles from people around them. Different masks offer different levels of protection. Wearing the most protective one you can comfortably wear for extended periods of time that fits well (completely covering the nose and mouth) is the most effective option. […] Generally, masks can help act as a filter to reduce the number of germs you breathe in or out. Their effectiveness can vary against different viruses, for example, based on the size of the virus. When worn by a person who has a virus, masks can reduce the chances they spread it to others. Masks can also protect wearers from inhaling germs; this type of protection typically comes from better fitting masks (for example, N95 or KN95 respirators). Let me highlight this for a second because it’s something the MAGA never understood. The main people wear a mask isn’t to protect them — it’s to protect everyone else around them. The mask restricts the travel of expelled water droplets and vapor that can carry the virus from reaching other people. The masks - in and of themselves - were never that good at protecting you from the virus, unless — as noted — it happens to be one of the N95-styled masks that have a tighter fit and a vent that can filter what you exhale and inhale. The point wasn’t protecting the wearers - or the children in the school - the point was protecting the teachers and administrators at the school from being infected by children who may have been infected. This is why surgeons wear masks while performing operations, they aren’t wearing them to protect themselves, they’re wearing them to protect the patient from their germs. Keeping distance worked in a similar manner. Putting physical distance between yourself and others can help lower the risk of spreading a respiratory virus. There is no single number that defines a “safe” distance, since spread of viruses can depend on many factors. Generally, infectious droplets and particles build up closer to the person who is releasing them. The closer you are to someone who has a respiratory virus, the more likely you are to catch it. If someone has the virus, and they are expelling it as they breathe, having some distance from them reduces the chances of exposure. It’s really simple. But to MAGAs this is an horrible affront. Having to wear a “muzzle” and not get directly in someone’s face is just a violation of their Personal Freeedom. Yeah, ok, no one has the right to spread a deadly disease to the people around them willfully. Just like no one has the right drive recklessly and mow down pedestrians. Marjorie’s performance was a national embarrassment. https://x.com/TheSourceCNN/status/1797803139355078659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1797803139355078659%7Ctwgr%5E4518ef592dddd8310974a2ad3187c6e04d484179%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2668446169advanced "I have testified literally hundreds of times over the last 40 years, over Congress and there's always been differences of opinion, differences of ideology and things like that," he said. "But the level of vitriol that we see now just in the country in general — but actually played out during this hearing was really quite unfortunate." The rank effort to target his character he believes incited a sideshow. "Because the purpose of hearings are to try and figure out how we can do better so that next time if and when we all faced with a pandemic we'd be better prepared and we could benefit if mistakes were made; we identify them and we try to correct them for the future," said the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during an appearance on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins. Fauci claimed the rhetoric espoused by Greene and others has inspired some to target him and his family with bonafide death threats. "Whenever somebody gets up, whether it's the news media you know, Fox News does it a lot or it's somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that I'm responsible for the deaths of x number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created the virus — immediately — you could like clockwork, the death threats, go way up," Fauci said. Greene notably declared: "We should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. You belong in prison, Dr. Fauci." But calling for his criminal demise is what Fauci found so distasteful, telling Collins: "So that's the reason why I'm still getting death threats when you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene." As Dr. Fauci was talking about the death threats to his family a sa result of these wacky conspiracy theories - and Jan 6 rioter sat behind him making faces. A Jan. 6 attacker who served one of the toughest prison sentences yet handed out was perched over his left shoulder, making faces. National security expert Marcy Wheeler pointed out on X that Brandon Fellows was just released from prison on May 20 after serving three years on both felony and misdemeanor charges. Dr. Fauci spoke to the House Oversight Committee about threats and harassment that he's faced as a result of his handing of the COVID pandemic. There have also been threats on his family. As he spoke, Fellows made a pouty face behind Dr. Faucis. Because these people are incredibly petty and insensitive to the violence they’ve fostered. Greene invoked the “Wuhan Lab Leak” theory in combination with the “NIH Gain of Function” theory to accuse Fauci of creating the Covid-19 virus. First off, the Lab Leak isn’t a certainty — it hasn’t been confirmed, although that is admittedly because of China’s stonewalling. If there were a case brought on that issue it would have ridiculous amount of reasonable doubt. But then these people never seem to have a doubt about anything. And it’s not like Fauci tried to downplay the possibility. "That possibility certainly exists, and I am totally in favour of a full investigation of whether that could have happened," Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser, told a US Senate committee hearing in May 2021. President Biden says he asked for a report on the origins of Covid-19 after taking office in 2021, "including whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident". In May 2021, Mr Biden ordered intelligence officials to "redouble" their efforts on this. […] A team of WHO-appointed scientists flew to Wuhan in early 2021 on a mission to investigate the source of the pandemic. After spending 12 days there, which included a visit to the laboratory, the team concluded the lab-leak theory was "extremely unlikely". This issue has continued to be studied including in this National Intelligence Report from 2023. Secondly, although the NIH was involved in some virus experiments at the Wuhan Lab, they haven’t proven to have been “Gain of Function” — which would make the virus more deadly to humans and the specific virus which were part of the NIH study — isn’t a match to Covid-19, which doesn’t appear to have been genetically engineered. While some lab researchers heightened their risk of accidental exposure to viruses at WIV through insufficient safety precautions, and "several" fell ill in the fall of 2019, the report found, U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on whether the pandemic began through natural transmission or by accident. The report notes that some scientists at the institute genetically engineered coronaviruses through common practices, but that there was "no information" indicating such work was done on the virus that causes COVID-19. "Almost all" the agencies studying the issue assess the virus "was not genetically engineered," it sai So not only would any criminal case that the Wuhan Lab created the virus fail, it would also fail on the basis the the virus wasn’t artificially made. No Jail for Fauci. Marjorie argued that Dr. Faucie is “not a Doctor” which is just plain dumb, but she went further to accuse him of being involved in the abuse of Beagles when that situation - again - has nothing to do with him. A company that bred beagles for medical research agreed to pay a record $35 million (€32 million) in a landmark animal-welfare case on Monday in Virginia. Envigo RMS, the company running the facility, and its parent company Inotiv, admitted to neglecting thousands of dogs at their breeding site. The company was accused of keeping dogs in cages that were only cleaned twice a month, which is far less than the required daily cleaning. Dogs were euthanized without sedation, and many were injured by the metal grate floors. The food and water provided were also not enough and were dirty. Fauci is a virologist. He isn’t linked to this company in any way. This has become a criminal case and Dr. Fauci is not charged in that case. But it’s “Science” — so somehow Fauci is magically responsible for it. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/6/2245082/-MTG-let-s-all-her-MAGA-crazy-out-for-stroll-all-at-once?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/