There have been a lot of news stories about revelations contained in Fauci’s diaries of the COVID years. For example, there’s this about how much he had to say about himself and his newfound fame:

A surprising recurring theme throughout the diaries is Fauci’s growing awareness of his own public profile during the most intense months of the pandemic, which ultimately claimed more than 7 million officially reported lives worldwide, including roughly 1.2 million in the United States.

On April 7, 2020, after recording the latest pandemic developments, Fauci wrote: “Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me.”

Why would that be a surprising theme? I suppose it would matter if that topic completely dominated the diary, or if he was writing things like, “I am one of the most wonderful people of all time.” But merely noticing that he’d become a celebrity isn’t all that strange. The fact is, he was one of the most famous people in the world at the time, and it happened rather suddenly.

However – and it’s a big “however” – the diaries certainly reveal other extremely disturbing things about Fauci. But maybe the word “reveal” isn’t quite right, either, because they are mostly things we already knew. So perhaps the correct word would be “underline.”

For example:

[Fauci was] A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate of a flu in his diary.

[Fauci was] A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate 10X of a flu under oath in front of Congress.

Or the fact that Fauci was telling us not to have family gatherings because of the possibility of the spread of COVID at the same time he himself was having social dinners with none other than Jake Tapper.

It was released today that Anthony Fauci was dining with Jake Tapper at his home during a federally imposed quarantine.

We already knew, long ago, that most of our “betters” were defying the restrictive rules they were setting down for us peons. We already knew that they were allowing the 2020 demonstrations in the streets when all other gatherings were forbidden. We already knew they made up most of the rules with almost no scientific backing, and we already knew they strongly suspected a lab leak was the cause of the pandemic long before they admitted it.

That doesn’t mean it’s not still infuriating and destructive. But it’s no surprise at all.

I also see in the comments of most posts and articles on the subject some variation of the following: “Fauci should be arrested, tried, and sentenced, but the GOP doesn’t care.” Well, that’s absurd, because Biden gave Fauci a blanket pardon. Whether he could be tried for perjury if he lies at the Congressional hearings that will be forthcoming – in other words, whether the pardon will extend to future offenses involving his past behavior that has already been pardoned – I’m not 100% certain. But there can’t be any federal prosecutions for his previous alleged crimes.