The Biden administration sought to do damage control on Sunday regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments earlier this week about a court’s decision to eliminate the federal mask mandate on public transportation.
Whereas Fauci insinuated the courts were not knowledgeable enough to make such a decision, Ashish Jha, White House COVID coordinator, went against Fauci’s comments and supported the judiciary, even though he disagreed with the ruling. This was a much more logical approach than Fauci’s recent statements criticizing the courts. Fauci echoed totalitarianism, in line with his “I represent science” rant last year.
Jha’s comments come after Monday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle. She wrote in a 59-page ruling that the mandate “exceeds the CDC’s statutory authority and violates the procedures required for agency rulemaking under the APA.
“Obviously, the judiciary has an important role to play,” Jha said on Sunday’s State of the Union. “What you heard out of the administration, out of the Department of Justice, is the assessment that this is an incorrect decision, and the DOJ is now appealing this decision.”
This is in stark contrast to the earlier comments made by Dr. Anthony Fauci this week, who expressed dismay at the court’s ruling. He stated that the judiciary should not be able to overrule the CDC.
“We are concerned about that, about courts getting involved in things that are unequivocally public health decisions,” Fauci said. “This is a CDC issue. It should not have been a court issue.”
Additionally, Fauci questioned the ability of the courts to make such a decision, given that it concerns a “public health issue.”
“The point that I was making, that this is a public health decision, and I think it’s a bad precedent when decisions about public health issues are made by people, be they judges or what have you, that don’t have experience or expertise in public health,” Fauci told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto.
Given all the inconsistencies and errors of health officials during the pandemic, including the CDC, Fauci’s comments make little sense. Consider that in March 2021, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claimed that people who received the COVID vaccine didn’t get sick.
“Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data,” Walensky said at the time.
It’s a troubling comment from the beleaguered Fauci, who has seen his fair share of criticism over the past two years. Dismissing the court as not being qualified to make such rulings regarding the CDC will surely reinforce every negative stereotype his opponents have of him, and rightfully so. His comments show a preference for scientific totalitarianism, and that should be disturbing to everyone.
