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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Fauci Emails' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-05. Transcript available.

- Well, did you read the Fauci emails?
- Yes.
- The Freedom of Information emails?
That's really crazy, because he, first of all,
he's admitting in these emails that masks don't work.
- Was he?
- Yes, yeah, he talked about it.
He talked about it openly.
- Wait, I didn't know that part.
I only, I thought you were gonna talk about the--
- Well, that too, but here's the thing.
Part of the email was,
part of the mask conversation with Fauci
has always been that at the beginning of the pandemic
he said masks didn't work.
But then he said, the reason he said that
is because there wasn't enough masks
for first responders and hospital staff,
and he wanted to make sure that the supply wasn't diminished.
So he said that he didn't tell the truth, right?
Okay, but in these emails, he's also,
these are private emails, he's saying masks don't work.
- For real?
- Yes, he's saying that they're not effective
for what you, outside of a hospital setting,
these masks, like for personal use,
the kind of cloth masks and paper masks
that everybody's wearing, they're not effective.
They're not, they can't, exactly what did he say?
Let's pull it up so we get exactly what he said.
But that's not even the big part.
The big part is, he's talking about gain of function research
in the Wuhan lab, and he's concerned about it,
and thinking whether or not they had paused that,
and whether they're still doing that,
and he's trying to connect the gain of function research
in the Wuhan lab with this COVID breakout,
and whether or not that's where it came from.
- Right, why is that a big deal?
- Because that's, they funded it.
The NIH funded these people who funded
the gain of function research in the Wuhan lab,
which means they're responsible for funding
the very research that led to this outbreak,
if that's where it came from.
- Right.
- So all this time when he's been saying
it came from nature, there's no way it came from a lab,
well you know that's shifted, right?
And now everybody's saying it came from a lab.
- Right, right, right, but then not confirmed yet.
- Because the evidence, but the evidence is pointing,
as it's most likely that it came from a lab.
This whole time Fauci's been saying it didn't,
but you see in his emails that he was concerned.
- Well, concerned, but isn't that,
but isn't that like just trying to figure out
what the information is?
- Not really.
- Because he doesn't definitively know either, right?
- There's a lot of indications according to the email,
that he's talking to another scientist.
The scientist points out the variables,
or the components of the virus,
that seemed to indicate that it possibly came from a lab.
But publicly he's been out and out dismissing that.
Because he's connected to that research.
He's connected to the very research they were doing there.
It's really complicated shit.
It's because Rand Paul's been grilling him.
Have you seen those things?
He goes, "Typical mask you buy in a drugstore
is not really effective in keeping out the virus,
which is small enough to pass through the material.
It might, however, provide some slight benefit
in keeping out gross droplets
if someone coughs or sneezes on you.
I do not recommend that you wear a mask,
particularly since you're going to a very low-risk location."
See, this is just him saying that these drugstore masks
are not really effective.
- Right.
- But this is in an email after he has said publicly
that you didn't have to wear masks
because they didn't really help.
And then he's saying this and after that he said,
well, he wasn't telling the truth there
because he didn't want people to buy all the masks.
But then he's saying this after that in an email
that they don't really work.
But yet he's wearing a mask all the time.
- But that's kind of like, there is shades in that.
There's like the-
- Gross droplets.
- Gross droplets.
And if you're in a low-risk location.
Like what's his motivation to,
like why would he profess masks if he thought
part and parcel that they don't work?
- First of all, the narrative is everybody needs to mask up.
- But why?
- Well, because it makes people feel safer, A.
It helps people get back to work, B.
And it obviously is providing some benefit.
Something's, listen, this is my take on it.
Something's happening because the flu cases are down so low.
- Oh, yeah.
- So is that because of people wearing masks?
Is that because of social distancing
because everybody's kind of freaked out
and staying away from each other for so long?
- Washing their hands everywhere they go?
- Yeah.
- Or having Purell at every-
- I don't think that's it.
- At every spot?
- I don't think that's it because it's a,
you're talking about something that's airborne.
- Well, for that, but for you to get a cold,
you know, your hands and touching your shit.
- Right, maybe.
- All those things, all those things.
- Yeah, maybe.
But there's something, something,
there's very well likely something to masks
that maybe we weren't aware of.
So even what he's saying there.
- Yeah.
- That it might just keep out gross droplets.
- Yeah.
- But isn't it all about like viral load?
- Because like, that's the thing they say
about a hospital workers,
like hospital workers when they're exposed to so much.
- Right, when it's a heavy dose of it.
- That's when it's overwhelming
and they really get sick.
- Yeah, they get like a heavy dose.
- So maybe that's what these masks are good for.
What is this?
- Yeah, get that, there you go.
Which are the protective measures anyone should take
against the new virus?
Do masks work?
He said, the vast majority of people outside China
do not need to wear a mask.
Read the Fauci approved response.
A mask is more appropriate for someone who's infected
than for people trying to protect against infection.
- Hmm.
- Right.
- Well.
- I mean, what's, but like, what's my whole thing
with all of this is it's been very confusing.
We're all, every governor's making decisions.
Everybody's around the world is trying to figure shit out
and calling a lockdown or calling not a lockdown.
Everyone's like unlimited information
trying to make the best decisions that they can.
Like, I don't think that as a governor of a state,
you're making a decision to screw up the economy on purpose.
I don't think that, I don't think that Fauci
is talking about masks to like harm people.
You know what I mean?
- No, that's not the problem.
- I just feel like they're just have limited information
and are trying to muddle their way through
the best that they can.
Like what?
- That's not the real problem is the mask thing.
It's a small problem.
The real problem is this gain of function research shit.
This is the, the very research that they were doing
where they were juicing up--
- They were juicing up these viruses
to make them more infectious.
And they were practicing like trying to use,
I think they use human lung tissue
and try to get the virus to be more,
the idea is with, I mean, I'm gonna butcher this for sure,
but I think the idea is when they're doing this research,
they wanna find out what makes these viruses more infectious.
And they were doing it on the original SARS as well.
- Yeah.
- Which has like a 10% fatality rate.
- Wow.
- Which is very scary.
- Wow, that is scary.
- This stuff is less than 1%,
but that stuff is way worse.
- Yeah.
- And by doing this gain of function research,
they run the risk of people getting sick.
We just found out a couple of weeks ago
that in November of 2019,
three workers from the lab in Wuhan got sent home,
or sent to the hospital rather,
really ill with coronavirus-like symptoms.
And this was before they had COVID-19 tests, right?
- Uh-huh, this is way back.
- So these people got sent home.
I believe one of the guy's wife's died from COVID.
And they think this was the initial infection.
So these people in the lab got sick.
So all this time,
while they were trying to dismiss this lab outbreak,
that had been hidden from us,
that these three people in the lab got sick.
- The fact that Fauci had something to do
with that gain of function research
and funding that gain of function research,
that had kind of been hidden from us.
- Well, that makes it seem--
- Josh Rogan exposed that.
- But that makes it seem like
Fauci's like putting on scrubs
and walking down the halls of that place.
You know what I mean?
Is Fauci really in there?
You know what I mean?
- Are you defending Fauci?
Is that what you're doing?
- Yeah, I don't know.
I think that he's been put up as someone
where we can take our fears and anger and throw it at,
but is he like, he may be part of like,
you know, these things are huge.
Like there's a big board of people
that decide what they're gonna research.
- You gotta read these emails.
You gotta read these emails and read--
- So do you think that he's evil?
Do you think that he is?
- No, I'm not saying that.
- So what are you saying?
- I think someone fucked up.
I think they're trying to cover up
the fact that they fucked up.
I think the whole reason
why they've been saying that this thing came from nature,
it's a natural spillover,
is I don't think they're saying that
because that's the most likely scenario.
I think they're saying that because they fucked up.
- Right.
- And they didn't want everyone to know
that they fucked up.
And I think having the position of power
and having the position of authority that he had,
he could say there's no indication
this came from a lab.
- Who is they?
Who fucked up?
Like what is this--
- Well, the lab in Wuhan for sure fucked up.
- Okay, so who runs that lab?
- Well, I don't know.
But I do know that the NIH funded an organization,
they gave money to an organization
which gave money to that lab.
That's the official story.
- Got it.
- And this is the story that Rand Paul talked about
when he was grilling Fauci.
This is also what Josh Rogan talked about.
He's a journalist that investigated all this.
What Josh, what Rogan was saying was that
during the Trump administration,
everything was so chaotic
that they were able to restart
this kind of dangerous research
that Obama had put the brakes on.
Obama apparently, I'm like,
what the fuck are you doing?
Why are you making viruses more deadly?
- Oh, really?
- Stop.
- Yeah, let's not do this.
- Trump was over there going,
I'm number one, I'm the best.
And they're like, I got an idea.
Let's start that fucking research back.
- Let it fly.
- Yeah, I don't know.
- Virus force.
- I mean it's interesting because some news organizations
are ignoring it completely
and other organizations are attacking.
That's when you see whether or not
the news is really the news.
Because you see the difference
between the way the left-wing news is covering it,
which is a lot of them are just out and out ignoring it.
And then the right-wing news coverage,
they're constantly bringing up these emails.
- Right.
- And pulling them out and hashtag fire Fauci
and all this different shit.
- Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's the thing.
Once you start calling out this is our side's thing.
I saw that there was a headline in the New Yorker
or the New York Times that said why it's important to,
why it's so important to figure out
whether this lab theory is correct or not.
And it was like, that was kind of the first time
I saw it in those papers.
- Oh no, it was in Newsweek a couple of months ago.
- No, but I'm saying-
- It was like the first shot fired.
- That was the first crack, yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause when you see it on the cover of Newsweek
when they started to consider it again.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But it was political.
- Yeah, it was totally political.
- Trump was such, he was such a polarizing figure
and people hated him so much that anything that guy said,
everybody was like, "Fuck him, let's go the other way."
- Right.
- He said it came from a lab,
but it definitely didn't come from a fucking lab.
- Yeah, well that's the, right?
That's the boy that cried wolf syndrome, right?
It became like-
- Exactly.
- He kind of did that to himself.
He just keeps saying such crazy shit
that everybody was just,
and making it and calling out everybody
and yelling at them.
- Meanwhile, Fauci just wrote a book.
So he's releasing a book on this now.
And making money off of a book.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
And he's also the same guy that told us
we wouldn't ever shake hands again.
- I think he's adorable though.
He's little, he's got like a little,
like a Bronx kind of thing going.
- I got an action figure somebody sent me.
- A Fauci action figure?
- Yeah.
- With a mask on.
It has a mask on.
Sitting on my desk.
- He's adorable.
He's kind of, you put him out there.
He's like, you know, there's like all, look.
I would love to know what that Wu,
like, okay, so if we're trying to get into the truth of it,
which is what we need, right?
We need to know-
- Well, obviously you and me are not gonna
get into the truth of it.
- Please.
You could tell me the fact right now
and I'll forget it by the next subject.
But if they're trying to figure that out,
like who is behind Wuhan?
Like who is making those decisions to do all this stuff?
Like, and how far, is that a global thing?
Like, is the US a huge part of it?
Was Norway really involved?
Like who?
- Well, they have a bunch of labs in China, apparently,
that do this kind of work.
And they do different kinds of work
at different kinds of labs.
And the real fear is that, like some labs in the world,
some places in the world,
they do weaponized virus work.
- God, terrifying.
- That's terrifying.
- Terrifying.
- They did that in Russia.
We actually covered that on this sci-fi show
that I hosted years back.
- Oh yeah?
- We covered the idea of weaponized viruses.
But the thing that they told me
when we went to the CDC down in Galveston, Texas,
they have this big building where they house
basically every fucking terrible disease known to man,
big thick-ass walls and ventilation systems,
and everyone's wearing space suits,
and me and Duncan are high as fuck,
wandering around this place.
- No.
- Yikes.
- You brought Duncan?
- Yeah, me and Duncan went down there.
- Oh, that's great.
- And the guy was saying that
what he's really worried about more than anything
is the things that come from nature.
He's like, we could worry all day about weaponized viruses.
And he goes, but the possibility of that is low
compared to the possibility of something jumping from nature,
which is very high.
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The Fauci Emails

- Well, did you read the Fauci emails?
- Yes.
- The Freedom of Information emails?
That's really crazy, because he, first of all,
he's admitting in these emails that masks don't work.
- Was he?
- Yes, yeah, he talked about it.
He talked about it openly.
- Wait, I didn't know that part.
I only, I thought you were gonna talk about the--
- Well, that too, but here's the thing.
Part of the email was,
part of the mask conversation with Fauci
has always been that at the beginning of the pandemic
he said masks didn't work.
But then he said, the reason he said that
is because there wasn't enough masks
for first responders and hospital staff,
and he wanted to make sure that the supply wasn't diminished.
So he said that he didn't tell the truth, right?
Okay, but in these emails, he's also,
these are private emails, he's saying masks don't work.
- For real?
- Yes, he's saying that they're not effective
for what you, outside of a hospital setting,
these masks, like for personal use,
the kind of cloth masks and paper masks
that everybody's wearing, they're not effective.
They're not, they can't, exactly what did he say?
Let's pull it up so we get exactly what he said.
But that's not even the big part.
The big part is, he's talking about gain of function research
in the Wuhan lab, and he's concerned about it,
and thinking whether or not they had paused that,
and whether they're still doing that,
and he's trying to connect the gain of function research
in the Wuhan lab with this COVID breakout,
and whether or not that's where it came from.
- Right, why is that a big deal?
- Because that's, they funded it.
The NIH funded these people who funded
the gain of function research in the Wuhan lab,
which means they're responsible for funding
the very research that led to this outbreak,
if that's where it came from.
- Right.
- So all this time when he's been saying
it came from nature, there's no way it came from a lab,
well you know that's shifted, right?
And now everybody's saying it came from a lab.
- Right, right, right, but then not confirmed yet.
- Because the evidence, but the evidence is pointing,
as it's most likely that it came from a lab.
This whole time Fauci's been saying it didn't,
but you see in his emails that he was concerned.
- Well, concerned, but isn't that,
but isn't that like just trying to figure out
what the information is?
- Not really.
- Because he doesn't definitively know either, right?
- There's a lot of indications according to the email,
that he's talking to another scientist.
The scientist points out the variables,
or the components of the virus,
that seemed to indicate that it possibly came from a lab.
But publicly he's been out and out dismissing that.
Because he's connected to that research.
He's connected to the very research they were doing there.
It's really complicated shit.
It's because Rand Paul's been grilling him.
Have you seen those things?
He goes, "Typical mask you buy in a drugstore
is not really effective in keeping out the virus,
which is small enough to pass through the material.
It might, however, provide some slight benefit
in keeping out gross droplets
if someone coughs or sneezes on you.
I do not recommend that you wear a mask,
particularly since you're going to a very low-risk location."
See, this is just him saying that these drugstore masks
are not really effective.
- Right.
- But this is in an email after he has said publicly
that you didn't have to wear masks
because they didn't really help.
And then he's saying this and after that he said,
well, he wasn't telling the truth there
because he didn't want people to buy all the masks.
But then he's saying this after that in an email
that they don't really work.
But yet he's wearing a mask all the time.
- But that's kind of like, there is shades in that.
There's like the-
- Gross droplets.
- Gross droplets.
And if you're in a low-risk location.
Like what's his motivation to,
like why would he profess masks if he thought
part and parcel that they don't work?
- First of all, the narrative is everybody needs to mask up.
- But why?
- Well, because it makes people feel safer, A.
It helps people get back to work, B.
And it obviously is providing some benefit.
Something's, listen, this is my take on it.
Something's happening because the flu cases are down so low.
- Oh, yeah.
- So is that because of people wearing masks?
Is that because of social distancing
because everybody's kind of freaked out
and staying away from each other for so long?
- Washing their hands everywhere they go?
- Yeah.
- Or having Purell at every-
- I don't think that's it.
- At every spot?
- I don't think that's it because it's a,
you're talking about something that's airborne.
- Well, for that, but for you to get a cold,
you know, your hands and touching your shit.
- Right, maybe.
- All those things, all those things.
- Yeah, maybe.
But there's something, something,
there's very well likely something to masks
that maybe we weren't aware of.
So even what he's saying there.
- Yeah.
- That it might just keep out gross droplets.
- Yeah.
- But isn't it all about like viral load?
- Because like, that's the thing they say
about a hospital workers,
like hospital workers when they're exposed to so much.
- Right, when it's a heavy dose of it.
- That's when it's overwhelming
and they really get sick.
- Yeah, they get like a heavy dose.
- So maybe that's what these masks are good for.
What is this?
- Yeah, get that, there you go.
Which are the protective measures anyone should take
against the new virus?
Do masks work?
He said, the vast majority of people outside China
do not need to wear a mask.
Read the Fauci approved response.
A mask is more appropriate for someone who's infected
than for people trying to protect against infection.
- Hmm.
- Right.
- Well.
- I mean, what's, but like, what's my whole thing
with all of this is it's been very confusing.
We're all, every governor's making decisions.
Everybody's around the world is trying to figure shit out
and calling a lockdown or calling not a lockdown.
Everyone's like unlimited information
trying to make the best decisions that they can.
Like, I don't think that as a governor of a state,
you're making a decision to screw up the economy on purpose.
I don't think that, I don't think that Fauci
is talking about masks to like harm people.
You know what I mean?
- No, that's not the problem.
- I just feel like they're just have limited information
and are trying to muddle their way through
the best that they can.
Like what?
- That's not the real problem is the mask thing.
It's a small problem.
The real problem is this gain of function research shit.
This is the, the very research that they were doing
where they were juicing up--
- They were juicing up these viruses
to make them more infectious.
And they were practicing like trying to use,
I think they use human lung tissue
and try to get the virus to be more,
the idea is with, I mean, I'm gonna butcher this for sure,
but I think the idea is when they're doing this research,
they wanna find out what makes these viruses more infectious.
And they were doing it on the original SARS as well.
- Yeah.
- Which has like a 10% fatality rate.
- Wow.
- Which is very scary.
- Wow, that is scary.
- This stuff is less than 1%,
but that stuff is way worse.
- Yeah.
- And by doing this gain of function research,
they run the risk of people getting sick.
We just found out a couple of weeks ago
that in November of 2019,
three workers from the lab in Wuhan got sent home,
or sent to the hospital rather,
really ill with coronavirus-like symptoms.
And this was before they had COVID-19 tests, right?
- Uh-huh, this is way back.
- So these people got sent home.
I believe one of the guy's wife's died from COVID.
And they think this was the initial infection.
So these people in the lab got sick.
So all this time,
while they were trying to dismiss this lab outbreak,
that had been hidden from us,
that these three people in the lab got sick.
- The fact that Fauci had something to do
with that gain of function research
and funding that gain of function research,
that had kind of been hidden from us.
- Well, that makes it seem--
- Josh Rogan exposed that.
- But that makes it seem like
Fauci's like putting on scrubs
and walking down the halls of that place.
You know what I mean?
Is Fauci really in there?
You know what I mean?
- Are you defending Fauci?
Is that what you're doing?
- Yeah, I don't know.
I think that he's been put up as someone
where we can take our fears and anger and throw it at,
but is he like, he may be part of like,
you know, these things are huge.
Like there's a big board of people
that decide what they're gonna research.
- You gotta read these emails.
You gotta read these emails and read--
- So do you think that he's evil?
Do you think that he is?
- No, I'm not saying that.
- So what are you saying?
- I think someone fucked up.
I think they're trying to cover up
the fact that they fucked up.
I think the whole reason
why they've been saying that this thing came from nature,
it's a natural spillover,
is I don't think they're saying that
because that's the most likely scenario.
I think they're saying that because they fucked up.
- Right.
- And they didn't want everyone to know
that they fucked up.
And I think having the position of power
and having the position of authority that he had,
he could say there's no indication
this came from a lab.
- Who is they?
Who fucked up?
Like what is this--
- Well, the lab in Wuhan for sure fucked up.
- Okay, so who runs that lab?
- Well, I don't know.
But I do know that the NIH funded an organization,
they gave money to an organization
which gave money to that lab.
That's the official story.
- Got it.
- And this is the story that Rand Paul talked about
when he was grilling Fauci.
This is also what Josh Rogan talked about.
He's a journalist that investigated all this.
What Josh, what Rogan was saying was that
during the Trump administration,
everything was so chaotic
that they were able to restart
this kind of dangerous research
that Obama had put the brakes on.
Obama apparently, I'm like,
what the fuck are you doing?
Why are you making viruses more deadly?
- Oh, really?
- Stop.
- Yeah, let's not do this.
- Trump was over there going,
I'm number one, I'm the best.
And they're like, I got an idea.
Let's start that fucking research back.
- Let it fly.
- Yeah, I don't know.
- Virus force.
- I mean it's interesting because some news organizations
are ignoring it completely
and other organizations are attacking.
That's when you see whether or not
the news is really the news.
Because you see the difference
between the way the left-wing news is covering it,
which is a lot of them are just out and out ignoring it.
And then the right-wing news coverage,
they're constantly bringing up these emails.
- Right.
- And pulling them out and hashtag fire Fauci
and all this different shit.
- Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's the thing.
Once you start calling out this is our side's thing.
I saw that there was a headline in the New Yorker
or the New York Times that said why it's important to,
why it's so important to figure out
whether this lab theory is correct or not.
And it was like, that was kind of the first time
I saw it in those papers.
- Oh no, it was in Newsweek a couple of months ago.
- No, but I'm saying-
- It was like the first shot fired.
- That was the first crack, yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause when you see it on the cover of Newsweek
when they started to consider it again.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But it was political.
- Yeah, it was totally political.
- Trump was such, he was such a polarizing figure
and people hated him so much that anything that guy said,
everybody was like, "Fuck him, let's go the other way."
- Right.
- He said it came from a lab,
but it definitely didn't come from a fucking lab.
- Yeah, well that's the, right?
That's the boy that cried wolf syndrome, right?
It became like-
- Exactly.
- He kind of did that to himself.
He just keeps sayi