There won’t be an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the National Institutes of Health museum. The funds earmarked for the display honoring the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recently became a target of the Department of Government Efficiency.
It’s only the latest sign that America is moving on from its coronavirus fever dream. During that time, Fauci became a symbol of the American public health establishment’s monomaniacal zero-Covid mindset. He encouraged this with egomaniacal PR, such as poolside photoshoots, and a titanic self-conception according to which “I represent science.” His partisans obliged with fanatical devotion, all the way up to votive candles. His detractors accordingly treated him as a symbol as well — of everything that went wrong with our country’s Covid response.
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