Frank wrote on Aug 11
th, 2026 at 4:18pm:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Aug 11
th, 2026 at 1:27pm:
On Dr Anthony Fauci’s watch, the USA became one of the sickest wealthy nations in the world, despite spending twice as much on health per capita as other OECD nations. Chronic childhood disease rates rose from around two per cent in the late-1960s to 45 per cent by 2025, and three-quarters of US adults now have a chronic disease. Nor is this a result of longevity – US lifespans are four years below comparable countries such as Australia. Fauci was of course only one among many, but over a 54-year career, 40 years of which were doling out many billions at one of the largest US health research funders, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he became enormously powerful. Arguably, his Covid pandemic mismanagement, excesses and deceits merely continued this earlier pattern of public health failures.
The silver lining has now arrived, in Australia and elsewhere, in the backlash. You see it in the new broom sweeping through US health, with Covid critics such as RFK Jr, Jay Battacharya and Dr Oz now transforming institutions and policies. There’s an enormous new focus on healthy living, including wellness, preventive care, functional medicine, sleep, fitness, mental wellbeing, supplements and all manner of high-tech initiatives. McKinsey researchers say the global wellness market has reached $2 trillion annually, with the US market worth $500 billion and growing at up to 10 per cent per year.
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By way of an alternative, I’m just back from the Buchinger Wilhelmi fasting retreat on the shores of Lake Constance, in gloriously scenic southern Germany.The family-run retreat and research centre has been going for over a century, has a 70-per-cent return visitation rate, and is one of the two or three best global fasting retreats. Guests choose either the three-week or ten-day option, and one is eased into and out of the fast over a few days, with 800 calorie meals. The fast involves a mere 200 calories a day, delivered in the form of light broths and vegetable juices, and there’s a full suite of side treatments and therapies that I never plumbed the depths of. Daily walks and recreational activities are included. An Australian marathon runner who was there, and who daily measured her body composition, said she lost only 100g of muscle during the process, but much more fat. Most people report, with eyes shining, vastly lowered blood pressure, significant weight loss, and the resolution of various issues. Nurses take daily observations. I never felt hungry, not once, and the food, when it came, was gourmet. As a Frenchwoman said to me, in wonder, ‘It’s like being in an enchanted bubble.’
There are many paths to good health, and our traditions already offer various time-proven and simple fixes. It’s just that you have to stop eating and popping pills to get there. There, you see? The old boy can see the point to all these executive orders about jabs:
FauciYou'll remember, of course, the old boy's response during covid.
Health belongs to the
states, the old boy hissed. DL has nothing to do with it!
Oh? We said. It's the same here in Oz. So why's Scomo creating National Cabinets, funding vaxes, shutting down airports and secretly swearing himself in, we later discovered, as minister for everything?
Hard to say, the old boy said, but DL doesn't have to lift a finger. It's all on the states.
I see, we said, so why's he hosting top-rating press conferences, talking about heat and light and proposing injections of bleach, as he said, to do a real number on the lungs?
The old boy wouldn't say.
Why's he funding Operation Warp Speed, fast-tracking vax approvals and entrusting billions in experimental medical funding to his son-in-law?
The old boy kept mum.
And why's the prez making vax mandates, shutting down schools and nursing homes and workplaces and...
I'll have to stop you there, the old boy said. That's the states.
He heard that bit.
So why'd you just blame Sleepy Joe?
He popped out again.
So now his DL's signing executive orders dividing up vaccines to prevent babies leaking that only the states can apply, what's the old boy's response?
On Dr Anthony Fauci’s watch...
You catch his drift. The old boy, you see, learned his English at the Prestigious University of Balogney. Intelligence, integrity, bizarre misspelled agit-prop and Vickie Pollardesque whataboutery, the lot.
Of course, DL hasn't even started yet. There's plans afoot to lock Fauci up, under the principled legal proposition that Sleepy used an autopen to sign his pardon. DL wants to take it all the way to SCOTUS, knowing full well an indictment will be thrown out of court. It's a real test case: how to do lawfare on your own director of infectious diseases while simultaneously seizing federal funds to pay out the convicted cop-bashers DL pardoned and set free himself.
Cunning, no?
As you can see, dear, they all do it. Whatabout
Fauci?
They're all as bad as each other, ja?
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