Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican, is calling for the firing of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx from the White House coronavirus response team.
“Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx have cased more damage to this nation with their COVID-19 prescriptions than can ever be restored,” Biggs tweeted along with an opinion article he wrote in Townhall headlined “Time For Fauci (and Birx) to Exit Left Stage.”
“Their policies and solutions do not value and protect ALL lives. Our future depends on these two exiting the stage immediately,” he said.
Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx have cased more damage to this nation with their COVID-19 prescriptions than can ever be restored. Their policies and solutions do not value and protect ALL lives.
Our future depends on these two exiting the stage immediately. https://t.co/1hbozdHtHh
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) August 7, 2020
“The sell-by date of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s usefulness has expired,” Biggs writes in his piece. “He should exit the public stage that he so obviously enjoys. His long tenure as a healthcare bureaucrat should come to an end. He has proven more adept as a showman than as a doctor.”
The Arizona Republican, elected to Congress in 2016, outlined several examples of why he feels Fauci should be given the boot, including his support of the coronavirus lockdowns, which Biggs argued caused significant damage to the country.
“It was his advice to lockdown most states and local jurisdictions that resulted in the unemployment of tens of millions of Americans,” Biggs wrote. “Thousands of businesses have been permanently shuttered. People who had mortgaged their homes or leveraged their retirement savings to open businesses saw their economic dreams vanish. But, Fauci told Congress he didn’t consider these things when crafting his policies.”
Biggs stated that suicide rates have “soared” and that domestic violence, child abuse, alcohol, and drug abuse have also “skyrocketed.”
Suicide rates have increased in many parts of the country, and a study conducted earlier in 2020 concluded that the stress and anxiety caused by the lockdowns could destroy seven times more years of life than they could save.
Ambulance data compiled in July suggested that drug overdoses have surged since lockdowns were imposed and were up 18% in March, 29% in April, and 42% in May.
“Dr. Fauci, for good or ill, has been the commandant of the federal, state, and local response to the COVID-19 virus for these last many months,” Biggs continued. “He has been the architect, if not the builder, of policies that have been inconsistent, unpredictable, and destructive.”
At the end of his piece, Biggs mentions Birx and criticized her for not supporting the reopening of schools immediately.
“It is past time for Fauci, and his sidekick, Deborah Birx (who embraces no school until the spread rate is 5% or less, although that number is without scientific support and appears to have been pulled like a rabbit from the hat in an arbitrary fashion) to exit stage left,” Biggs said.
