By David N. Harding, Staff Writer
They told us to trust them. To stay quiet. To stop asking questions.
But now, after years of lockdowns, mandates, censorship, and social shaming, one thing has become clear: our own government, media, and scientific establishment didn’t just get things wrong—they misled the American people knowingly, repeatedly, and unapologetically.
This wasn’t an accident. It was narrative control, weaponized. Let’s walk through the undeniable proof, supported by their own words, emails, and later confessions.
1. The Mask Lie: “We Knew It Would Help, But Told You Otherwise”
In the early days of COVID, you may recall government officials emphatically telling Americans not to wear masks. On March 8, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci went on 60 Minutes to say, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask” (CBS News).
The Surgeon General echoed this advice, tweeting in all caps: “STOP BUYING MASKS!”
Why? Because they knew they were in short supply. Dr. Fauci later admitted that officials downplayed mask effectiveness not based on science, but to prevent a shortage for health workers. In his own words:
“We were concerned the public buying up masks would lead to shortages… It was well-meaning, but detrimental”
(NIH Interview via JAMA).
Translation: they lied to manipulate your behavior—and admitted it.
2. “The Vaccine Will Stop the Spread”—Except They Knew It Wouldn’t
In March 2021, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky confidently claimed on MSNBC:
“Vaccinated people do not carry the virus. They don’t get sick.”
(NBC News)
That soundbite went viral. President Biden echoed similar sentiments, declaring in a CNN town hall on July 21, 2021:
“You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
(CNN Transcript)
But within months, Delta hit. Vaccinated Americans—including lawmakers, staffers, and celebrities—began testing positive en masse. The CDC reversed its own guidance, telling vaccinated individuals to start masking indoors again (CDC Update).
Even the Associated Press fact-checked Biden’s statement, noting he had “gone too far”, since breakthrough infections were increasingly common (AP Fact Check).
So why the overconfidence? Because they wanted compliance—and were willing to risk the truth to get it.
3. Dr. Birx: “We Overplayed the Vaccines”
You won’t hear this confession on CNN, but it came straight from Dr. Deborah Birx, the face of the Trump-era COVID task force. In an interview with Fox News in July 2022, she admitted:
“I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection… and I think we overplayed the vaccines.”
(Fox News Interview)
Worse, in her book Silent Invasion, Birx admits she altered official COVID guidance behind closed doors without approval. She manipulated data in weekly CDC reports to influence White House policy—deliberately evading oversight.
(Daily Mail)
Her reason? She thought she was doing the right thing. But the bottom line is this: Americans were not given full, honest data.
4. The Lab-Leak Cover-Up: Emails Reveal the Truth They Buried
Today, even the Biden administration admits the lab-leak theory is plausible. But in early 2020, the narrative was aggressively shut down.
Why? Because the truth would have been inconvenient.
In January 2020, top virologist Dr. Kristian Andersen emailed Fauci, saying SARS-CoV-2’s genome “looked engineered” and was “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” (Vanity Fair)
Fauci immediately convened a secret meeting with other scientists. But just weeks later, the same group published a paper in Nature Medicine dismissing the lab-leak theory as “implausible.” Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins then used this paper to publicly dismiss lab-leak discussions as conspiracy theories (Nature Medicine).
What they said publicly contradicted what they discussed privately. And when former CDC Director Robert Redfield testified before Congress in 2023, he revealed that he was intentionally excluded from those early discussions because he supported the lab-leak possibility (House Hearing Summary).
They didn’t want a debate. They wanted narrative obedience.
5. Fauci’s Senate Testimony: “We Never Funded Gain-of-Function”
Under oath in May 2021, Dr. Fauci told Congress that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
(C-SPAN)
But just five months later, the NIH quietly admitted otherwise.
In a letter to Congress, NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak revealed that a U.S.-funded experiment—conducted through EcoHealth Alliance—did in fact enhance a bat coronavirus’s lethality in mice (NIH Letter).
That’s the very definition of gain-of-function research.
Even House Oversight Committee Republicans concluded that Fauci's testimony was misleading and contradicted by NIH’s own documents (House Committee Report).
6. Smearing the Dissenters: “Devastating Takedown” of Scientists Who Disagreed
When three respected scientists released the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, advocating for “focused protection” instead of broad lockdowns, the public was told it was fringe nonsense.
Privately, however, NIH Director Francis Collins emailed Fauci calling for a “quick and devastating published takedown” of the authors (WSJ).
Not a debate. Not a counterargument. A takedown.
And that's what they got. Within days, a wave of op-eds and "expert opinions" flooded the press, discrediting the scientists behind the declaration. The public was never told that its own government orchestrated this smear campaign from behind the scenes.
This wasn’t science. It was suppression.
Conclusion: This Wasn’t Incompetence—It Was Intentional
We were told to “follow the science.” But what we got instead was a carefully curated illusion:
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They admitted privately that masks helped but told you otherwise.
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They knew the vaccines wouldn’t stop transmission but promised they would.
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They dismissed the lab-leak theory as fiction, while privately fearing it was true.
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They claimed they never funded risky research, while evidence proved they did.
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They attacked credentialed scientists, not because they were wrong—but because they disagreed.
They didn’t just misjudge. They manipulated. They concealed. They lied—for years.
And now, it’s our job to never let them rewrite this chapter of history.
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