What Did Fauci Mean by “Game On?”

The release of the Fauci diaries has filled in some missing pieces. They help elucidate how the years of hell unfolded in Fauci’s own mind. Working with military intelligence and pharmaceutical companies, Fauci and his colleagues eventually hatched an audacious plan to delay natural immunity for a full ten months as they awaited both the November election and the viable release of the injectable product called a vaccine – all in the hope that it would be given credit for fixing the problem they created in the first place. 

This scheme, however, was Fauci’s personal Plan B. 

Plan A is revealed in the diaries. It was to bury the existence and spread of the virus in question within a broader fabric of a bad flu season. This might have worked too. With the overwhelming fatality threat falling nearly entirely on the aged and infirm, the deaths from Covid in particular could have been overlooked completely. This was his preferred outcome, or, rather, the best that he could come up with given the panic of the first weeks of January 2020. 

The problems all began much earlier. Whenever the lab leak occurred, it had become apparent to military intelligence following the Military Olympics of October 18-27, 2019, held in Wuhan. In this high-profile event, 9,308 athletes from 109 countries competed in 329 events in 27 sports. It is highly likely that Covid was already known to be there, judging by how strict the Chinese authorities were in managing exposure. 

We have testimony from US participants that they came back with an unusual flu that US military authorities were keen to keep quiet with extended quarantines of the sick. 

Fauci was surely kept apprised of this through intelligence channels. He knew that he had a problem on his hands. It was only a matter of waiting to see whether news of this leak would go public. 

For him, the bad news arrived on January 3, 2020 when the diary entry reads: 

“Also 44 unusual cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China over the past couple of days. Etiology still unknown. Said to be a “viral pneumonia’’of unknown etiology. Flu ruled out. Cases linked to a seafood market. No human-to-human transmission documented at this time.”

Just above that, however, we see the origins of Plan A. January 2 and 3 we find the first mention of a bad flu year. It was his first attempted cover story. 

“Did TV interview with Cox TV this year’s influenza situation. Interviewed by Samantha Manning.” And: “Jan. 3, 2020 – Influenza is heavy in the media. Did an interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN for her Blog. Also, did a live radio interview with John Catsimatidis for his ‘Cats Roundtable’ from NYC.” 

His flu-themed Plan A continued and stepped up over the coming days. Keep in mind that the China situation was not yet public. He knew, but the public was not alert to it. There was still a chance that it could be kept under wraps. 

Jan. 7, 2020: “Did TV interview with Canadian TV (CTV) on the viral outbreak in Wuhan, China. Did interview (print) with HealthDay on the influenza season.”

Jan. 10, 2020 (Friday): “Influenza is hot and heavy. Vaccine match is OK for H1N1, but not so good for B and H3N2. Did WUSA local TV on flu as well as interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN that went on her blog with multiple references to our conversation.”

That same day, Fauci writes in bold print, alarmed and now newly aware that his scheme might not work:

“Chinese publish sequence of the virus on public data base.”

Now, it is the weekend. Fauci reports the following: “Barney Graham ordered the constructs using credit cards,” meaning he bought the sequence. 

Who is Barney Graham? He is the professor of microbiology at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, home of the CDC. He is formerly the deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC), part of Fauci’s NIAID. Graham is holder of 38 patents related to immunization, in particular US10960070B2, “Prefusion coronavirus spike proteins and their use” granted in 2017. He worked with Moderna from very early, with the blessing of Fauci.

Fauci later confirmed this weekend frenzy, reporting that he got “his team” together on January 10 and they started working with Moderna. 

Then comes the diary entry, again in bold. 

“Jan. 14, 2020 – Barney Graham’s team starts work on GMP vaccine in collaboration with Moderna”

Here was the birth of Plan B: prepare the population for the shot for which he would get the credit. It would take 10 months, during which time endemicity needed to be delayed. There were the slogans “15 days to slow the spread,” “Flatten the curve,” and so on, alongside a variety of schemes to keep seroprevalence levels as low as possible by banning meetings and pushing social distancing. 

The plan came just in time because the CDC was starting to get annoyed that Fauci had been going around warning of a bad flu season of which there was zero evidence. 

From January 14, Fauci reports of a private meeting at CDC to which he was not invited. Here they were apparently completely confused as to why Fauci was going on this way. Puzzled gossip in private. 

“Apparently, CDC is upset because I am saying that this is on a course to be as bad a year as 2017-2018 and 2014-2015. In fact, the flu infection ‘numbers’ are exactly on track with those years. However, there are less total deaths and hospitalizations…. I say it is a bad season and CDC says no. There was a discussion between Azar and Nancy Messonnier of CDC about this and about my statements, but no one thought of getting me on the conference call. Not good. Typical CDC!”

Fauci continued to experiment with his flu idea over the coming several days. But the cat was already out of the bag. It took him time finally to admit that it was going to be Plan B all the way down. January 21 was one turning point: the virus had been discovered in the US. 

“CDC announced today that the first case of n-CoV has been identified in Seattle.” 

But what really sealed the deal was the news of the lockdowns in China. There was to be no going back. The mythical and wholly fabricated bad flu season was at an end and the Covid plot began. 

A week later he writes the following without any real explanation:

“Jan. 26, 2020 – GAME ON!!!”

What was that game? He would become the leading spokesman for several experiments without precedent in history, all designed to cover up his and others’ culpability for the leak of the new virus they had manufactured through gain-of-function research. 

Number one, he would need to crush the nasty rumors that this was a lab-created virus. That was easily accomplished by getting some compliant scientists to write a flimflam paper to be distributed to all the scientific journals. That was already in play within a week. 

Number two, he would arrange a junket to Wuhan for any necessary clean up, sending his emissary Clifford Lane along with officials from around the globe, under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The WHO would generate a report blessing China’s response to the virus as the way to go. 

Number three, he would attempt coercion on a mass scale, just like China, to slow population immunity to the new virus as a means of keeping seroprevalence levels as low as possible. Otherwise, the vaccine would arrive too late to make any real difference. He proposed sending a team to China to learn from them. At his first meeting with Trump, he pushed for Trump to ask permission of Xi Jinping. 

Number four, he would attempt to bring the injected inoculation to the population in record time, something that had never been done before on grounds that doing so would normally be considered exceedingly risky. Plus, it has never been true that a shot could outrun mutations for a respiratory virus. 

Number five, he would shepherd the first-ever deployment of a vaccine that focused entirely on the spike protein, essentially reverse-engineering the virus, using modified mRNA technology delivered via lipid nanoparticles. The tech had never been approved by the FDA in normal times but emergency use authorization could make it possible. This was the only method by which the shot could win the race against time. 

This was the game to which he referred. He sought to slow down mutations by lowering the infection rate through social engineering so that the shot would actually work before the variants came along. It was a perversely brilliant strategy so long as one doesn’t mind violating the rights of citizens all over the country and provoking copycats the world over. 

In short, he would have to appoint himself the master of the microbial kingdom and get everyone to go along with his scheme. 

From his point of view, this was the least bad option but keep in mind the objective. The point of this wild dance was not to protect the health of the population. It was to create an alibi so that he would not personally be blamed for funding the creation of the virus in the first place. 

The goal was to turn his villainy into valor, to use brutality of lockdowns to inspire his own beatification worthy of a healer, to enable a migration from sadist to saint with one magic shot. 

We know how this story ends. Seroprevalence levels rose despite every attempt to keep them down. It is highly likely that the endemic stage of this pandemic had already arrived by the time the shots were ready to be shipped (a point I can explain in a different article). 

The first person to reveal this was Jay Bhattacharya. A community-based seroprevalence survey of Santa Clara County was conducted on April 3-4, 2020. It found ten times the expected levels, even in a community where there was no real evidence of community spread. The implications were that the infection fatality rate (IFR) was far lower than advertised and that lockdowns would do nothing to stop population immunity gained by natural exposure. 

Bhattacharya’s study was greeted with ferocious opposition, as one might imagine, and he was smeared far and wide including by BuzzFeed which outright accused Jay of financial corruption. He was an early victim of such attacks but there would be many more in the coming months and years. 

One can see, then, how the information warfare unfolded during the whole of 2020. Anything that contradicted the Fauci et al. Plan B was deemed disinformation, while anything that backed the scheme was regarded as responsible public-health messaging. Frantic efforts involving all major tech platforms and media venues worked to censor anyone who was calling this out. This of course hit the Great Barrington Declaration, which had the temerity to advocate normalcy before the shot could be deployed. 

Evidence that the scheme had completely failed arrived the following year just as shots were being delivered. On January 9, 2021, virologist David Ho sent Fauci the note that he dreaded most. The Delta variant was replacing Alpha so the shots were rapidly losing effectiveness. A week later, he told Fauci that they would be largely useless. 

At this point, however, there was no going back. Fauci had to press on because this was the choice he had made, the game he had chosen to play. 

He eventually suggested all of the above publicly. It happened on April 14, 2022 during an interview on MSNBC: “You use lockdowns to get people vaccinated so that when you open up, you won’t have a surge of infections, because you are dealing with an immunologically naive population to the virus, because they’ve not really been exposed because of the lockdown.”

All of this is today coming unraveled at a rapid pace. 

Here is the bitter irony. If Fauci had gotten away with Plan A, we would have been much better off. We would have used known methods for getting well like off-the-shelf therapeutics, and been spared the horror of what happened with Plan B (the game). It would have come and gone without a great deal of notice rather than becoming a turning point in our lives. 

We look back in astonishment at the carnage caused by the game: the millions of destroyed businesses, the learning losses, the broken families, the injured by the shot and the dead, and the sweeping loss of trust in all the commanding heights of society, leading to the current population-wide incredulity in essentially everything. Another hugely bitter irony is the rise of vaccine resistance like we’ve not seen in living memory, all brought about by the game. 

Meanwhile, and thanks to the efforts of the intrepid Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson, and many others working outside captured channels, the truth is coming out, even as Fauci has a new-found love for the Bill of Rights and its 5th amendment’s right to remain silent.