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Anthony Fauci Tells Congress Texas Has a Lower Infection Rate Than Michigan Because People are Ignoring Lockdown Rules

by Will Jones
21 April 2021 4:18 PM

President Biden’s Chief Medical Adviser Dr Anthony Fauci has claimed the reason Michigan and other states which have maintained restrictions have a higher infection rate than Texas, which ended all Covid restrictions at the beginning of March, is because people in lockdown states are ignoring the rules. He did not attempt to explain why his prediction from March of a “very troublesome” surge in Texas had not materialised. When Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) attempted to press him on the feeble answer he had given to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, the Committee Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) cut him off and said he’d had his answer. Breitbart News has the story.

Jordan said to Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, “You said when Texas ended their lockdown, ended their mandate, that this was quote ‘inexplicable and would lead to surging cases’. Texas is near the bottom of the 50 states, but all the states, all the states at the top are lockdown states.”

“That guess didn’t seem to be too good,” Jordan added.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on March 2nd lifted his state’s mask mandate and capacity restrictions on all businesses and facilities. Fauci responded to the move on March 3rd in a CNN interview:

“I don’t know why they’re doing it but it certainly from a public health standpoint is ill-advised. … We’ve been to this scene before months and months ago, when we tried to open up the country and open up the economy. When certain states did not abide by the guidelines, we had rebounds, which were very troublesome. What we don’t need right now is another surge so just pulling back on all the public health guidelines that we know work, and if you take a look at the curve, we know it works. It just is inexplicable why you would want to pull back now.”

Michigan topped Jordan’s list with a seven-day average case rate of 551 per 100,000 people. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has issued mask requirements and set a 50% capacity limit on many businesses, including retail and food establishments, as well as entertainment venues.

Jordan demanded an explanation from Fauci on why Texas, which, per his list, had a seven-day average case rate of 77 per 100,000 people, was “so darn low compared to the rest of the states”.

Fauci replied, “There’s a difference between lockdown and the people obeying the lockdown.”

“You know you could have a situation where they say, ‘We’re going to lock down’, and yet you have people doing exactly what they want –”

Jordan interjected to ask Fauci to clarify if he was suggesting people in states with the highest case rates were not obeying those states’ coronavirus-related orders.

Subcommittee Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) then informed Jordan his speaking time had expired, but Jordan objected, arguing Fauci had not yet answered his question.

“I think the gentleman answered you quite clearly,” Clyburn said. “There’s a big difference in being a lockdown state by order and being a state that obeys orders. That answered the question in my opinion.”

Source: CDC

Even if Michiganders are ignoring the lockdown (and good for them if so), that doesn’t explain why restrictions must be maintained if removing them makes things no worse. There’s certainly no evidence Texans are voluntarily staying home very much at all.

The architects of lockdown aren’t even trying to give answers to why lifting restrictions does not trigger a devastating surge as their models unfailingly predict. Neither have they explained why Florida or South Dakota, which stayed open all winter, did not experience a worse outcome than states which imposed severe restrictions. Is this a sign that their ideology is crumbling? How much longer can lockdownism survive if its leading proponents cannot give answers to basic questions?

Read the article and watch the video here.

Tags: Anthony FauciJim JordanLockdownsMichiganTexas

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago

I now wonder whose senility impacts whom more: Fauci’s on Biden, or Biden’s on Fauci?!
So you have higher cases in a lockdown state because people don’t obey it, compared to a not lockdowned one, in which people, by definition, don’t have to obey anything anyway?!
That’s pretty desperate and ridiculously dumb stuff, even for the serial lier Fauci.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Quite, Fauci must be senile not to be able to follow what Mr Jordan is saying and in any case in his position as Adviser to Biden he should roughly know the information anyway.

From his closing demeanour the Chairman is either biased, bought or seeking career enhancement.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

He’s not senile.
He’s corrupt.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Shame Trump’s not still in office. He’d probably have sacked Fauci by now…

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
4 years ago

This is an eyeopener!

https://www.thebernician.net/globalist-banker-predicted-scamdemic-genocide-of-the-useless/

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

As is this Bella D…

Novel experimental gene therapies with a known spike protein mechanism that causes blood clots….

The USA deaths are probably purely coincidental… roll-up…roll-up, sleeves up!

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Obedience
Obedience
4 years ago

Why does anyone take this maniac seriously anymore? Even if we believe what he’s claiming here: that people somehow obey restrictions more in states without mandatory masks and lockdowns, that sounds like an argument for lifting lockdowns to me.

Or if we just consider the evidence and realise he’s talking unsubstantiated tosh we still come to the conclusion that lockdowns aren’t necessary.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  Obedience

Good point. Basically he seems to be saying that if you want people to practice NPIs don’t mandate them. In states where they have been mandated, people ignore them. But in states where they have not been mandated, people use them … We are so far down the Rabbit Hole

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Michael Adler
Michael Adler
4 years ago

If for arguments sake, Michiganders are ignoring lockdown (which they probably arent as the Detroit Lions played in empty stadiums), they’ll be behaving the same as Texans. The latter state has lower infections, so therefore, the argument by Fauci is poor.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  Michael Adler

And here I was thinking the art of understatement was dead.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

So can anyone confirm if there is any evidence yet what impact (if any) the crowd of 38,000 plus for a Texas baseball game over the Easter weekend has had, or when there will be clear evidence?

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Rick Bradford
Rick Bradford
4 years ago

Lockdownism can survive any amount of bad science, ignorance, falsification, hypocrisy, double standards, and U-turns.

If you object to lockdownism, who ya gonna call?

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick Bradford

I’m a freelance journalist who has been researching COVID topics almost non-stop for 10 months. I can “report” that every story I have produced based on this research and my interviews has been rejected by MSM news rooms. “Groupthink” on COVID topics must be close to 100 percent in newsrooms so there’s really no hope of any journalist highlighting all the “bad science, ignorance, falsification, U-turns.” And those journalists who are trying to do this can’t find any place that will publish their work. The “Gatekeepers of the news” have those gates locked up as tightly as can be.

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Tillysmum
Tillysmum
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

You might feel better talking to Dr Reiner Fuellmich.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Have you tried Conservative Woman?

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago

People smarter than Fauci would have quietly moved out of the limelight by now. This isn’t going to get any better for him.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

My theory is that he HAS to stay there as long as possible to protect his story and to thwart those on the “inside” who might expose him.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

When he’s outlived his usefulness, they’ll find a way to get rid of him. In the meantime, he’s maintaining the policy position of the Biden administration.

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago

What happened to my comment?

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago

Fauci is stupid is a headline with the same level of surprise as ‘dog bites man’

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