Susan J. Demas

Susan J. Demas

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We Learned All the Wrong Lessons from COVID. This Week’s Fauci Hearing Proves It.

MAHA isn’t a wellness movement. It’s a suicide pact, run by people who are either sociopathically indifferent to the death toll or willfully blind to it.

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Susan J. Demas
Jul 31, 2026
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Dr. Anthony Fauci spent three hours this week pleading the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before a Senate committee run by Rand Paul. It was a sad, destructive spectacle that tells you everything about how badly we’ve botched the lessons of a pandemic that killed more than a million Americans.

Republicans billed the hearing as an unflinching investi…

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