Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- Good News: Fauci’s Out and Common Sense Might Be Returning
Aired: 2020-08-18
Duration: 04:00


=== Fauci's Out! Good News? (03:57) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
[00:00:07]  Good news.
[00:00:08]  Fauci's out and common sense might be returning.
[00:00:12]  These days it seems there is not much good news out there.
[00:00:17]  People are still panicked over the coronavirus.
[00:00:19]  Governments are still trampling civil liberties in the name of fighting the virus.
[00:00:24]  The economy already teetering on the edge of collapse has been kicked to the ground by what history may record as one of the worst man-made disasters of all times, shutting down the country to fight a cold virus.
[00:00:39]  That's why we'll take good news whenever we can get it.
[00:00:42]  And President Trump hiring of Dr. Scott Atlas to his coronavirus task force may just be that good news we need.
[00:00:50]  As the media has reported, President Trump has sidelined headline hogging Anthony Fauci in favor of Atlas, the former Stanford University Medical Center chief of neuroradiology.
[00:01:03]  Recall, Fauci was the expert who told us a few months ago that we would never be able to shake hands again.
[00:01:11]  Fauci's advice, forecasts, and assessments proved to be wildly wrong.
[00:01:16]  Contradictory and just plain bizarre.
[00:01:19]  Don't wear a mask.
[00:01:21]  Masks are important as symbols.
[00:01:23]  Put on goggles, stay home.
[00:01:26]  Churches must be severely restricted, but Black Lives Matter marches and encounters with strangers met over the internet are perfectly fine.
[00:01:36]  When Anthony Fauci demanded a lockdown of the economy for an indefinite period, he actually seemed oblivious to the havoc it would wreck on the economy and on the people's lives.
[00:01:48]  People like Fauci and others who demanded lockdowns and stay-at-home orders were still collecting their paychecks.
[00:01:56]  So what did they care about anyone else?
[00:02:00]  Dr. Scott Atlas is not only a former top physician and hospital administrator, as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, he also understands the policy implications of locking a country down.
[00:02:13]  On April 22nd, Dr. Atlas wrote an op-ed in the Hill titled, The Data is In Stop the Panic and End the Total Isolation.
[00:02:23]  In the article, he made five main points that are as true today as when he wrote them.
[00:02:29]  An overwhelming majority of people are at no risk of dying from COVID.
[00:02:34]  Protecting older people prevents hospital overcrowding.
[00:02:38]  Locking down a population actually prevents the herd immunity necessary to defeat the virus.
[00:02:45]  People are dying because they are not being treated for non-COVID illnesses.
[00:02:51]  We know what part of the population is at risk and we can protect them.
[00:02:56]  Imagine how many thousands of lives could have been saved had the administration listened to Dr. Atlas back in April.
[00:03:04]  CDC Director Robert Redfield admitted last month that lockdowns are killing more Americans than COVID.
[00:03:12]  First, Do No Harm was thrown out the window and nearly six months of wrong-headed policy has done perhaps irreparable harm to the country.
[00:03:22]  South Dakota and Sweden did virtually nothing to lock down or restrict their populations and they actually fared better than lockdown states in the United States.
[00:03:33]  They had lower death rates, their hospitals were never overrun with COVID patients, and they have an economy to go back to.
[00:03:42]  We very much hope that Dr. Atlas will not moderate his message to please the blob in Washington.
[00:03:48]  Trump's COVID policies to this point have caused more harm than good.
[00:03:54]  Without you out of the driver's seat, we finally have a chance of turning things around.