CV NEWS FEED // Former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Dr. Francis Collins openly admitted that public health officials attached “zero value” to the grave damage their COVID-19 policies did to the public.
Collins said public health experts did not think about how their policies would affect people “outside” of places like New York City and Washington D.C. “If you’re a public health person, and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life,” Collins said in a video posted to YouTube over the summer.
“[It] doesn’t matter what else happens, so you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life,” he continued:
You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never might quite recover from. Collateral damage. This is a public health mindset.
“And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset,” he added. “[A]nd that was really unfortunate, it’s another mistake we made.”
Collins made his remarks nearly an hour into an hour-and-a-half-long video posted by the nonprofit group Braver Angels. In five months, the video had only garnered three-and-a-half thousand views.
Braver Angels describes itself as “a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America.”
The comments only began to pour in following a series of posts by various X (formerly Twitter) users starting Wednesday.
In addition to his 12-year tenure as the head of the NIH, Collins also served as the acting Science Advisor to President Joe Biden for several months last year.
The geneticist, along with Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, were commonly referred to by the media as “experts” after the outbreak of COVID-19. At the time, Fauci served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is part of the NIH – then headed by Collins.
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Physician and scientist Dr. Robert Malone took to X to slam Collins. Among the medical community, Malone was one of the most outspoken critics of the public health response to COVID.
“So Francis Collins, the ex-director of NIH and Fauci’s boss, now admits the public health officials should NEVER be put in charge of a public health emergency, because their training is not adequate for a government response,” Malone wrote:
And that he botched the COVID-19 response.
This is yet another chapter in the “limited hangout” reveal that is currently ongoing by those in DC that are responsible for the gross COVIDcrisis “public health” mismanagement.
“Francis Collins did not want a debate,” wrote Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, another well-known critic of COVID restrictions:
He wanted an illusion of consensus in favor of his beloved lockdown. For him, it was a political problem to have ‘fringe’ epidemiologists challenge him & Fauci. He should be ashamed for the damage his hubris did.
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“For those of us saying this in real-time— quite a confession from former NIH director Francis Collins,” Dr. Anish Kolka, a cardiologist, wrote on X. “They royally screwed up. And they know it.”
“This is absolutely astonishing,” wrote another X user:
Francis Collins admits the massive, unnecessary ‘collateral damage’ from their botched covid public health response was due to an elitist beltway-centric myopic POV …oopsie!
Author and talk show host Steve Deace took things a step further, writing:
Francis Collins should face a tribunal for crimes against humanity, including his bureaucracy’s role in funding the creation of the “virus” in partnership with the Chinese. Heinous human being guilty of demonic levels of gaslighting.
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