The Highwire with Del Bigtree - TONY FAUCI: AMERICA’S GASLIGHTING EXPERT

Episode Date: May 28, 2022

Fauci gives viewers a teachable moment in gaslighting as he attempts to tell Americans that they didn’t experience any lockdowns over the last two years.#Fauci #Gaslighting #LockdownsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

For those audience members that don't know, we'd like to introduce you to the word gaslighting. This is something that we've seen over and over again throughout the media. And here's the definition right here. It's the technique to psychologically manipulate a person, usually over an extended period of time, so that the victim questions the validity of their own thoughts, perceptions of reality, memories, etc., etc. And so what we have here is a perfect example of this by one of our nation's top public health officials. Take a look and see if you can see what's wrong with this picture. During the times of the lockdowns, the data that we have seen following these lockdowns

has shown that we have had increases in depression among young people. There's no doubt that when you put... Yes or no if you could just... I'll answer the question. There's no doubt when you put restraints on society that it causes emotional and mental stress. There's no doubt about that. But you have to have a balance. of saving people's lives from getting infected in hospitalizations.

Would you agree that suicide rates have increased among young people? Indeed, they have. Would you agree the domestic violence rates have increased? Yeah, well, the answer is yes, but I'm wondering what that has to do with the question you're asking me. Would you agree that drug and alcohol use increased during these lockdowns? Well, I'm not sure the lockdowns itself did it, and I'm wondering why you're asking me about lockdowns because there were not complete lockdowns in this country. There were restrictions, obviously, but there were not lockdowns. China is now going into a real lockdown. So I would

disagree with characterizing whatever went on in this country as a full lockdown. You know, it's amazing about that. And that's probably the third or fourth time I've watched since we knew we were going to discuss this on the show. But you actually catch him. We get to see how his mind works when he's putting this together. And for the first time ever, there's like really a hiccup there. He's usually pretty good at diverting the conversation, but he actually agrees to the premise. He keeps responding to lockdowns and then even says, I don't know what point you're trying to make, you know, when it came to the lockdowns because, and then he, then he realizes, oh, let his brain goes, wait, wait, get off the word lockdowns. That's what you do. So after having said, you know,

the lockdowns, you know, why are you asking me about the lockdowns as though they did this? Then he says, And by the way, we never really locked down here in the United States of America. Everybody go back to sleep. China, China's the one that locks down. We don't lock down here in the United States of America. But you see that ship, but it's too late. He's already made the point. He knows we locked down, right?

I mean, by definition, this guy, you locked us down. I mean, tell that to all the people that could not walk into their jobs and make a living, that went on to unemployment. If that's not a lockdown, what the heck is? talk to all the people whose children are at home, unable to go into school to have that interaction. We're not allowed to play their sports. If that's not a lockdown, I'm not sure what is. And the representative there is talking about some devastating stats showing just the degradation of America from these lockdowns. And here he is doing wordplay back and forth. And so we go right to Johns Hopkins. We've covered this study several times.

It came out in January of this year. This is a literature review of meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality. They looked at almost 100 different meta-analysis and reviews. And they say this. This systemic review of meta-analysis are designed to determine whether there is empirical evidence to support the belief that, quote, lockdowns reduce COVID-19 mortality. And they say, lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory non-pharmaceutical intervention. That's an NPI. NPIs are any government mandate that directly restricts people's possibilities, such as policies

that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel. So there you have it. Any one of those measures is considered a form of, quote, lockdown. So who is the biggest promoter of those lockdowns? This is what the record shows. Take a look. Mitigation means to be prepared to do things that would slow down the spread, such as closing schools, social distancing, teleworking.

We've got to double down very, very strongly on the things that I've been talking about with regard to the universal acceptance of masks, distancing, and avoiding crowds and congregate settings. When you have containment and mitigation that may seem like an overreaction will keep us away from that worst case scenario,

whatever it takes to preserve the health of the American public. The fact that we shut down when we did, and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives. Now is the time to do what you're told. And I think it really is something that we should be doing right now.

Those are the good old days, huh? That's amazing, isn't it? I mean, just, you know, the giggling and laughing through the destruction of lives from his little ivory, well-paid tower there in Washington, D.C. It's just, it's getting hard to handle. And in Tony Fauci's mind, as you heard him say, these were lockdowns in America.

You want lockdowns. China has lockdowns. And in his mind as well, he says you have to balance. There's a balance here. Well, there's no balance in China. So in his mind, you would probably think, well, if China is going all in, they must have the best COVID mitigation techniques in the world. But we go to England.

And they were really one of the first, if not the first in the, you know, world that, people are locking down in America and European Union to end the lockdowns. And this was in late February of 2022. Here's what the headlines showed. England ends all COVID restrictions, including isolation law. And we covered at the time. We were kind of scratching our heads because it came out of nowhere. But now the headlines are looking like this.

Ending England's COVID restrictions was divisive. But the data shows we were right. It says what will perhaps be surprising to many is that England has actually had a similar rate of infection. and a lower rate of COVID deaths during the Omicron wave. And that's since 19th of July 2021, England's Freedom Day, then Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, despite having fewer mandatory restrictions and none after the 24th of February.

This, quote, natural experiment shows that having more mandates did not lead to better outcomes. And lo and behold, they go on to say this. Since the removal of restrictions in England, we have also seen an improvement in measures of personal well-being, economic performance, and unemployment, all of which are very important to our health. And that's these deaths of despair.

We've talked about so many times. But what's really interesting here is, again, Tony Fauci talks about China and saying, well, they really did the lockdowns. And Del, you and I go back and forth to say, why is this, all these videos coming out of Shanghai? Are they really trying to kind of train us, in train us, that these lockdowns are what's needed? And this is what the Lancet, the journal, the medical journal of the Lancet is now publishing Shanghai's life-saving. They're calling it life-saving efforts against the current Omicron wave of the COVID-19. pandemic and they say this is the key point in this the persistence of dynamic zero

COVID community transmission in Shanghai and other cities will overcome weak links in the immunological barrier in populations across the country so they're calling zero COVID dynamic I thought it was a complete failure and what's interesting is the authors on these two of the three of them one of them works for the municipality of Shanghai the other ones on the government of China's payroll works for their national Natural Science Institute Foundation. So this is what's coming out of the Lancet. This journal, we covered this so many times in the show.

I mean, the fact that the Lancet even publishes of Chinese propaganda like that is just as though they hadn't lost enough credibility with the false papers that they've had to retract over the year dealing with hydroxychloroquine, now publishing clearly Chinese propaganda. The state of science is truly appalling. It's really, really scary.

And having just, you know, had, you know, Malone and Ryan Cole and all these doctors coming together to try and save scientific integrity. It's clear why they're shouting from the mountops how bad this is getting.