For Just $10,000, You Too Can Get Your Picture Taken With Dr. Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci is the grift that keeps on giving.

And boy oh boy, business is good.

The St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation in Hamilton, Ontario is proudly advertising an opportunity to spend an ungodly amount of money to simply be in the presence of the great and powerful wizard of misinformation. On Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023, they'll present an "Evening With Dr. Anthony Fauci," presumably a speaking engagement with someone responsible for an unimaginable amount of damage to children's health, education and to society at large.

Sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? Honor and promote someone who lied to the public about masks, who defended school closures, misrepresented evidence on the lab leak to pull the focus away from his agency's potential involvement in funding it, and criticized politicians like Ron DeSantis who dared call out how consistently wrong he was.

An even better idea is charging an unimaginable amount of money to be in the presence of such "greatness."

Individual tickets start at "just" $300, but prices rise quickly and dramatically from there. And if you want to meet the man who helped usher in pointless, ineffective lockdowns, you'll have to pay $10,000. And up. $10,000 to meet Dr. Fauci. Imagine.

Ridiculous doesn't even begin to cover it.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases before an event on the Biden administration's Covid-19 response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Fauci's Endless Ego Continues Unabated After Relentless Failures

It's become abundantly clear during the past few years that there are few people on earth with egos as large as Dr. Anthony Fauci.

And it caused immense damage and harm to tens of millions of people because he couldn't accept a world in which he was wrong.

Fauci correctly told the public that masks didn't work, but once it became clear that the CDC was going to recommend them out of panic regardless, he changed his views, based on nothing. After being criticized for the flip flop, he lied about his motivations for it, saying that he only said masks didn't work to stop the public from taking supply away from healthcare workers.

Except, of course, there would be no crossover in distribution channels between people ordering masks from Amazon or Wal-Mart and hospital administrators buying them wholesale. Not to mention that he specifically highlighted scientific reasons why masks wouldn't work; namely that they don't provide the protection people believe they do.

As it became clear that masks weren't stopping infections the way he and others claimed they would, he seamlessly transitioned to recommending wearing two masks at once. Still, despite the tacit acknowledgement that one mask had failed and the absurdity of his suggestion, he refused to admit publicly that he'd been wrong. His mistakes also resulted in a complete lack of criticism from a politically allied media voraciously committed to pumping out his evidence-free misinformation.

That's just the start of his mistakes.

Rewarding Incompetence

He told politicians and unions that closing schools was justifiable, leading to far left states like California keeping them shuttered for a year and a half. That contributed to a horrific, extreme mental health crisis for the nation's school children, something that he, once again, later inaccurately denied influencing.

After the inarguable failure of masks to have any effect whatsoever, he shifted advocacy to COVID vaccines, telling the public that they were essentially 100% effective against hospitalization and that getting vaccinated was a selfless act that would protect others. That provable lie led to the inexcusable spread of vaccine passports and mandates that rapidly proliferated as followers of "The Science™" demanded compliance with Fauci's dictates.

There are countless other examples of his failure, incompetence, arrogance and hubris. Business closures, capacity limits, telling the public that states that listened to his advice would do better than those that didn't. Never admitting mistakes, or refusing to admit after Texas ditched masks that it proved him wrong.

For all these errors, Fauci was rewarded with a cushy job at Georgetown. And now, by running the speaker circuit and commanding $10,000 just to take a photo with one of COVID's biggest villains.

As always, it doesn't matter if your recommendations are proven right or wrong. Or if you harm millions with ineffective policies, restrict freedoms or demand censorship. What matters is that Anthony Fauci is admired by Democrats, because he told them what they wanted to hear. Following his advice reinforced an unearned sense of superiority, gave them enemies to look down on, i.e. those that didn't wear masks or get vaccinated, and another checkbox on their laughably simplistic yard signs.

It's not terribly surprising he's getting such huge numbers simply to be near his awe-inspiring intellect, it's surprising it isn't even more expensive. Lord knows he thinks he deserves it.