July 30, 2026

A person who hasn't been paying much attention to the right's obsession with COVID mitigation measures might reasonably wonder why Dr. Fauci would invoke the 5th Amendment more than 100 times when questioned by Congress. But when we look a little deeper we realize the truth of what Kafka wrote over 110 years ago. "It is impossible to defend oneself where there is no good will".

Nothing he could have said would have satisfied those who have publicly called for his jailing over the last 5 years. Any answers he gave in good faith would have been combed over to find a reason to throw this 85 year old man in jail. Galileo had more hope of a fair hearing before the Inquisition than Fauci had in front of these Republican Senators.