By 1985 -- four years after AIDS first appeared -- 73% of the cases were in gay men, 17% in intravenous drug users, 3% in Haitians, 2.2% in those who'd received blood, and 1% in sexual partners of AIDS patients. Less than 4% didn't fit into one of these categories.
With zero cases of proven heterosexual transmission, in February 1985, Fauci said, "Am I worried about [heterosexual transmission]? Yes."
By 1987, only 4% of AIDS cases could possibly be attributed to heterosexual contact -- and half of those were in Africans and Haitians.
And yet, here was Fauci in March 1987, still babbling about the risk of AIDS to heterosexuals. Asked if AIDS could be transmitted to men by vaginal intercourse, he answered, "Absolutely." He actually warned the public about French kissing: "[H]ealth officials have to presume that it is possible to transmit the virus by exchange of saliva in deep kissing."
If some of these quotes sound familiar, I cited a few of them in that March 2020 column, at a time when "public health authorities," cable news hosts and the president were demanding nationwide lockdowns.
Today, Fauci is doing the exact same thing with COVID, treating teenagers as if they face as much danger as people in their 70s, despite the latter having a 300 times greater chance of dying from COVID than those under 20. For young people who contract COVID, the chances of dying are less than the risk of dying from sunstroke over the course of their entire lives. Even for those in their 30s, the odds are about the same as their lifetime risk of dying by choking on food.
If he's ever interviewed by a serious journalist, perhaps Fauci could explain why his idea of "science" is about avoiding stigmatizing certain groups, and not about saving lives.
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